Widely known as NECTAR, North East Centre for

Technology Application and Reach is an independent

body which comes under the Department of Science &

Technology.

Headquartered in Shillong in Meghalaya, it has been constituted as a society.

Development of North East Region

One natural resource

that constitutes a

special part in the

economic and social life

of the North East

Region (NER) and has

been instrumental it its

development is bamboo.

The best use of bamboo technology is the one which is going to

be instrumental in helping the users of this technology to earn

high incomes and enjoy a proper livelihood.

Bamboo technology and its use for industrial purpose is going

to provide employment opportunities to people and help in the overall development of north eastern region as a whole.

The main objective is to promote the advantages of the

optimum use of bamboo’s industrial use so that it leads to income

generation and economic development.

Bamboo technology also stands on the opinion of enforcing a

commitment to cleaner environment and the promotion of the

usage of thermal energy and renewable electricity.

Bamboo technology

also helps in the

promotion of the induction

of gasifiers that use

bamboo and bamboo

waste to generate

electricity and thermal

energy.