Centre for Rural Infrastructure
Centre's Mandate
Analysing the determining factors of rural infrastructure for enhancing the capacities
of rural people on a sustainable basis through research, action research and consultancy
efforts
Objectives
- To create fully-equipped and highly competent professionals for planning and management
of rural infrastructure programmes.
- To facilitate rural infrastructure promotion with focus on the rural poor by upgrading
the knowledge and skills and changing the attitudes of rural development officials,
PRI representatives and non-officials through organising training programmes, workshops,
seminars etc.
Thrust Area
- Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation.
- Rural Housing.
- Rural Roads.
- Rural Energy.
- Rural Marketing Infrastructure.
The programmes and policies that are designed and implemented with respect to the
above are analysed and necessary policy support extended to the concerned State
/ Central Ministries by CRI. In addition, the Centre undertakes consultancy projects
on request by national and international organisations. Further, the participants
attending training programmes at the institute are exposed to the demonstration
units established at the Centre for Innovation and Appropriate Technologies (CIAT),
NIRD & PR.
Faculty
Dr R Ramesh
Associate Professor & Head
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Education :
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M.A., PhD
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Areas of Specialisation :
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Drinking Water and Sanitation, Proposal Writing, Strategic Planning, Logframes,
Development Research, Communication for Development, Development Reportage.
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Email :
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rramesh.nird[at]gov.in
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Er H K Solanki
Assistant Professor(Sr. Scale)
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Education :
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B.E (Agriculture), M.Tech(Remote Sensing), Pursuing Ph.D(Remote Sensing)
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Areas of Specialisation :
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Open Source GIS, Mobile GIS, Root Level Planning and Development, IT Administration,
Language Localisation, Technical / Design, Planning, Execution, Monitoring aspects
of Watershed / NRM / MGNREGS works
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Email :
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hksolanki.nird[at]gov.in
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