{"id":31266,"date":"2025-03-16T12:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T07:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31266"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:05:15","slug":"north-east-center-for-technology-application-and-reach-nectar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/north-east-center-for-technology-application-and-reach-nectar\/","title":{"rendered":"North East Center for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>North East Center for Technology Application and Reach Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Union Minister of Science and Technology recently laid the foundation stone for the North East Center for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR) permanent campus at Mawdiangdiang, Shillong.<\/p>\n<h2>About North East Center for Technology Application and Reach\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>autonomous society<\/strong>, set up under the<strong> Department of Science &amp; Technology,<\/strong> Government of India, with its <strong>headquarters at Shillong, Meghalaya.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was established in 2012 by merging two missions, viz., the National Mission for Bamboo Application (NMBA) and the Mission for Geospatial Applications (MGA).<\/li>\n<li>The Centre will look at harnessing and <strong>leveraging niche frontier technologies<\/strong> available with central scientific departments and institutions.<\/li>\n<li>In order to <strong>assist the northeastern region, <\/strong>NECTAR will be <strong>ensuring applications of appropriate technologies for development<\/strong> in the areas of biodiversity concerns, watershed management, telemedicine, horticulture, infrastructure planning &amp; development, planning and monitoring, and tele-schooling<strong> using cutting-edge MESHNET solutions, employment generation,<\/strong> etc. through <strong>utilization of local products\/<\/strong>resources and <strong>associated skill development.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Centre is sought to be <strong>designed in terms of:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Role of <strong>Solution Designer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Being a Partnership Institution<\/li>\n<li><strong>Technology Assistance to the State Government <\/strong>in North Eastern Region<\/li>\n<li>Assistance to State Government in Technology-Assisted Decision Support Systems Focus on Technology Reach Function<\/li>\n<li>Differentiated Approach from Technology Development Organizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>At present,<\/strong> NECTAR is <strong>functioning from the Survey of India Campus, Shillong, <\/strong>having branch offices at Delhi and Agartala.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>North East Center for Technology Application and Reach FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which ministry is the North East Center for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR) under?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Where is North East Center for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR) located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It has its headquarters at Shillong, Meghalaya.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is MESHNET?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is a type of virtual network that allows multiple devices to connect and communicate with one another directly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/guwahati\/union-min-laids-foundation-for-nectar-in-shillong\/articleshow\/118990503.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North East Center for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR)i s an autonomous society, set up under the Department of Science &#038; Technology, with its headquarters at Shillong, Meghalaya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}