From Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the setting up of the North East Centre for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR) at Shillong at an estimated cost of Rs 292 crore during the 12th Plan period.
NECTAR would promote deployment of carefully selected technologies emanating from the public funded research institutions under Government of India and State Governments in consultation with the respective state governments after assessing their application potentials.
The Ministry of Science and Technology had proposed before the Cabinet to establish a nodal centre in the North Eastern Region in the form of NECTAR as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.