IIT alumni to guide farmers

Updated on: Saturday, October 31, 2009

Chennai: With an aim to help farmers with the new farming technology, alumni of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, have come forward to mentor some of them to increase their yield.

Mr V. Varadarajan, president of IIT Madras Alumni Association (IITMAA), said there were numerous alumni with great expertise in various fields.

'I request our alumni to take projects like faculty research and development, spreading IIT's National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) to all engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu and also indulge in productive agriculture. I am already working on it and request some of us (alumni) to do it for the betterment of farmers and the country,' he said. Later, Mr B.N. Suresh Mangaladurai, general manager of IITMAA, said some of the IITians are already actively involved in farming using the technology they had learnt at the institute.

Explaining about the mentoring programme, Mr Vishy Viswanathan, core committee head, said the programme aims to link final year and pre-final year undergraduate and postgraduate students with the alumni as well as distinguished IIT faculty.

IIT alumni to guide farmers

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