What is the aim of the programme ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’?

What is the aim of the programme ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’?

Achieving 100% literacy by promoting collaboration between voluntary organizations and government’s education system and local communities.
Connecting institutions of higher education with local communities to address development challenges through appropriate technologies.
Strengthening India’s scientific research institutions in order to make India a scientific and technological power.
Developing human capital by allocating special funds for health care and education of rural and urban poor, and organizing skill development programmes and vocational training for them.
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UPSC IAS – 2017
The aim of the programme ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’ is to connect institutions of higher education with local communities to address the development challenges of rural India through appropriate technologies and knowledge transfer.
Under UBA, participating Higher Education Institutions adopt a cluster of villages and work with the local communities to understand their problems and come up with technological interventions and solutions based on the institutions’ expertise to contribute to the sustainable development of these areas.
UBA is an initiative by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (now Ministry of Education). It aims to create a virtuous cycle between society and a higher education system, with the latter providing knowledge and technology to improve rural livelihoods and the former helping the latter to shape research and education programs.
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