Centre for Innovation & Social Transformation

The Vision:

To become a centre of Excellence that fosters an ecosystem to promote engagement, innovation, and research leading to sustainable socio-economic development in the community.

The Mission:

• To inspire faculty and students to become innovators and change makers who promote sustainable living and development in the community.
• To facilitate reciprocal partnerships with rural communities through community-based learning experiences designed to identify and solve real-time problems.
• To provide students with service-learning experiences in collaboration with non-profit organizations to develop student-driven innovations aimed o achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
• To undertake research projects in partnership with local communities through community-based participatory research methods.

Core Team:

United Nations Sustainable Development goals:

Out of 17 Sustainable Development Goals, KGRCET is mainly focused on the following areas:

S.No	Focus Area	SDG Logo
1	Decent work and Economic Growth.
2	Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure.
3	Climate Action.
4	Affordable and Clean Energy.
5	Sustainable Cities and Communities.
6	Clean Water and Sanitation.
7	Quality Education.
8	Gender Equality.
9	Zero Hunger.

Courses Offered: 

Activities-2022-23:

• Extension Activities:

• Participation Outside:

• Village visits:

Activities: 2021-22

• Extension Activities:

• Village visits:

Vision

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

The Mission of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is to enable higher educational institutions to work with the people of rural India in identifying development challenges and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth. It also aims to create a virtuous cycle between society and an inclusive academic system by providing knowledge and practices for emerging professions and to upgrade the capabilities of both the public and the private sectors in responding to the development needs of rural India.

Goals

• To build an understanding of the development agenda within institutes of Higher Education and an institutional capacity and training relevant to national needs, especially those of rural India.
• To re-emphasize the need for field work, stakeholder interactions and design, societal objectives as the basis of higher education.
• To stress on rigorous reporting and useful outputs as central to developing new professions.
• To provide rural India and regional agencies with access to the professional resources of the institutes of higher education, especially those that have acquired academic excellence in the field of science, engineering and technology, and management.
• To improve development outcomes as a consequence of this research. To develop new professions and new processes to sustain and absorb the outcomes of research.
• To foster a new dialogue within the larger community on science, society and the environment and to develop a sense of dignity and collective destiny.

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan at KGRCET

As a participating institute of the program, KGRCET has partnered with 5 nearby villages – Amdapur, Murthuzaguda, Sajanpally, Sri Ram Nagar, and Surangal. Students in the last two years visited the 5 villages to get to know the community members and conduct multiple surveys that helped identify the most pressing challenges in the villages as mentioned below.

Village Visits

Gyan Shodh

8 Week Internship Program on Product Design

Service Learning