Rural Technology Programme :

The Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment has constituted this scheme for the purpose of providing assistance in the form of grants to promote and support the traditional rural technology and upgrade them, so that it could be perfected for wider applications and employment generations and to reduce the drudgery of the rural households. A separate scheme titled ‘Grass root Innovation Augmentation Networking (GIAN)’ is also implemented in collaboration with National Innovative Foundation, to promote grass root level innovations and to provide helping hands to grass root innovators to perfect the technology and to convert their innovations to an enterprise level. This scheme envisages promoting and augmenting innovations and resulting in technological advancements in our State.