Central University of Gujarat (CUG)

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, a flagship programme of MHRD

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is inspired by the vision of transformational change in rural development processes by leveraging knowledge institutions to help build the architecture of an Inclusive India

Mission: Effective participation in the holistic development of rural clusters using.

Eco-friendly sustainable technologies
Harnessing Local resources
Creating employment opportunities
Harnessing multifarious government schemes
Customisation of existing technologies
Use of local knowledge

Central University of Gujarat has adopted five villages (Kaka Nu Tarapur, Titoda, Adraj Moti Pundrasan, and Lekhawara) near Gandhinagar district under Unnat Bharat Abhiyan. Different societal and environmental activities are going on.

Base line Survey
Identification of Key issue
Participatiory planning (People's priority- local solutions - selection of intervention)

CUG has completed Village / household level survey for one village and for other villages it is going on.

Key issue already identified and after participatory planning (People's priority- local solutions - selection of intervention).

Based on Technology identification and Proposing Solution: Two projects formulation under Technology Development and Customization of solution is approved with financial support.

Sustainable Agriculture System - Groundwater treatment and purification using solar distillation System in Kakanu- Tarapur village, Gujarat (Rs 50,000/).

Water Resource Management - CETP-solid waste treatment and its conversion into biofertilizer (Rs 80,000).

Other activities during the different events like 5th June (Environment day celebration, Swacchta pakhwara week in village, Environmental awareness programme is organised time to time.

Vision and Mission

To care a conductive environment for promotion of Research and innovation activities in the university.
To encourage faculty members to apply for major, minor research projects
To ensure smooth functioning and effective management of innovation research and development activities of the university.
To promote collaborative research.
To strengthen industry- institute interaction by promoting consultancy, testing and need based research & innovation activities in the university.
To identify the potential areas of research in various disciplines and form the faculty into various clusters based on their specialization.
To prepare and submit proposals to government agencies for obtaining funded projects.
To encourage multi- disciplinary research internally within the university and externally with other organization.
Encourage the staff to attend/ publish papers in various National/ International conferences of their specialized areas.
To coordinate the research activities among the various departments and to address potential conflicts.
Encourage the faculty to attend various research-oriented Faculty development programmes.
To encourage the staff to publish their research works in reputed journals that have good impact factor and are indexed in Scopus and Web of Science (WOS).
Scrutinize the student's project proposals and send them to various agencies for financial support and recommend the suitable projects to encourage the staff to attend/publish papers in various National/International conferences of their specialized areas.
To coordinate the research activities among the various department and to address potential conflicts.
Encourage the faculty to attend various research-oriented faculty development programmes
To encourage the staff to publish their research works in reputed journals that have good impact factor and are indexed in Scopus and Web of Science (WOS).
Scrutinize the student’s project proposal and send them to various agencies for financial support and recommend the suitable projects.