Village Adoption Programme

Under this programme, B. Tech (Food Technology and Management) and M. Tech students are divided into groups of 10 to 12 students at the time of joining NIFTEM. Each group is led by a Faculty member (Mentor) and adopts a village anywhere in India and nurses it during the entire programme of study. The Groups go and stay in the village twice a year: 10 to 12 days each time in every semester. It is a symbiotic process leading to the exchange of Knowledge. While villagers gain scientific and technical knowledge through students who promote future possibilities of food processing among them, students obtain firsthand experience of Indian rural scenarios and understand traditional processing technologies adopted by the villagers. The performance of the student in the Village Adoption Programme will be evaluated at the end of the semester.