Project Coordinator, Cane and Bamboo Technological Upgradation and Networking Project (UNDP/UNIDO).
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)
India
August 2000 - March 2004 ♦ 3 Years - 7 Months
WORKING WITH the tallest grass on earth prepares one to raise the bar. At Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre (CBTC), we always believe in raising it higher every day ever since our inception in 1999.
The 2007-08 fiscal year would perhaps go down as the most remarkable phase for CBTC. It marked a decade of our existence and the report of the UNIDO evaluation team for the 1 phase of the UNIDO-CBTC project under DST, Govt. of India, recommended the proposal for 2 phase project in the light of CBTC being adjudged as the most successful project under the UNIDO country program for the period. In this connection, the centre was invited to showcase our achievements at the UNIDO conference in Vienna, Austria from December 3 to 7, 2007. The centre has been has been primed to be the Bamboo Technical Support Group (BTSG) under the National Bamboo Mission, and thereby took us closer to the new members of our family – Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal – and helped raise our stock as an independent global model of product specific efficiency.
All the factors combined to make 2007-08 a fiscal of immense responsibility – and satisfaction of having met expectations. Of giving shape to the objectives of NBM implemented by Union Agriculture Ministry's Horticulture Division, promoting growth of the bamboo sector and impacting lives through generation of employment opportunities.
Dealing with a versatile grass entails resourcefulness. Team CBTC, brims with this trait, almost like the bamboo, growing abundantly across India's eastern and northeastern region. Resourcefulness to face challenges, come up with new ideas, acquire and impart new skills, industrialize the bamboo sector and make lives better for the stakeholders.
We have made rapid strides working with the wonder grass. But then, we believe in going a step further, or in other words, raising the bar. This report is a small attempt to highlight our activities and achievements in the most comprehensive way