Cabinet clears setting up of North East Centre for Technology Application and Reach at Shillong

GUWAHATI: Government of India has cleared the proposal for setting up of North East Centre for Technology Application and Reach ( NECTAR) at Shillong with a total expenditure of Rs 292 crore during the 12lh Plan period under Department of Science and Technology.

The Ministry of Science and Technology proposes to establish a nodal centre in the North Eastern Region in the form NECTAR as a society under the Societies Registration ACT 1860.

NECTAR would promote deployment of carefully selected technologies, emanating from the public funded research institutions under Government of India and State Governments, in consultation with the respective state governments, after assessing their application potentials.