Build a multidisciplinary team of scientists and researchers in rural development and technology, covering agriculture, irrigation, sanitation, waste management, food supply chains, innovative products (domestic and commercial), self-employment, rural entrepreneurship, and business models.

Establish a cross-organizational Rural Development Forum to address practitioner priorities and share scalable best practices.

Provide a platform to enhance research productivity and foster collaborations within IITR.

Develop industry–academia partnerships to nurture university talent and create advanced internal training curricula.

Invest in long-term skills, capabilities, and an innovation culture that supports IP creation and asset development.

Train highly qualified personnel (HQP) by hosting post-doctoral fellows, visiting professors, and enabling undergraduate research opportunities.

Organise events connecting IITR researchers with peers from national and international institutions.

Promote indigenous technologies and develop core, scalable solutions for the rural sector.

Attract new funding for sustainable rural development by leveraging IITR’s expertise and capacity

Assess the rural sector’s current market size, key service providers, opportunities, SWOT analysis, policy framework, and skill levels.

Conduct market landscape surveys to forecast skill demand over the next decade.

Perform gap analyses on skills and policy frameworks.