Overall well-being will be achieved if a student can attain physical, intellectual, and moral standards. CIMAT is keen to impart moral values into the lives of students. The college accomplishes this by allowing students to participate in extension activities organized by the college and the student clubs. College has two student clubs and two cells actively involved in social service activities. Please visit the webpage of individual clubs and cells to view complete reports of Extension and Outreach activities.
CIMAT is a participating Institute (C-41090) of the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) project supported by the MHRD Government of India. Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is a flagship program of the government of India and is inspired by the vision of transformational change in rural development processes by leveraging knowledge institutions to help build the architecture of an Inclusive India. This was the dream of the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi that real India is residing in rural areas, and their development must be our top priority. This mission is conceptualized as a movement to enable processes that connect institutes of higher education with local communities to address the development challenges of rural India through participatory processes and appropriate technologies interventions for accelerating sustainable growth with the available human and natural resources in the adopted villages. It also aims to create a virtuous cycle between society and an inclusive university system by providing knowledge and practices for emerging professions and upgrading the capabilities of both the public and the private sectors.
1. Vision: Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is inspired by the vision of transformational change in rural development processes by leveraging knowledge institutions like IITs/NITs/Central Universities/IISERs/State universities and colleges to help & build the architecture of an Inclusive India.
2. Mission: The Mission of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is to enable higher educational institutions to work with the people of rural India in identifying development challenges and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth. It also aims to create a virtuous cycle between society and an inclusive academic system by providing knowledge and practices for emerging professions and upgrading the public and private sectors' capabilities in responding to rural India's development needs.
UBA volunteers from the MBA Department, under Prof.Dr. Y. Babu Vinothkumar conducted socio-economic surveys in five villages. The survey results identified some of the problems farmers face in the region.
a. Farmers are getting low income for their products.
b. Many of the products could not be processed into secondary by-products due to climatic and poor logistics conditions of the villages in the region.
S.No | Name of the Villages | Projects Planned |
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1 | Jagirnaickenpalyam | Coconut leaf broom-making machine |
2 | Kondayampalayam | Development of Digi Classrooms |
3 | Narasipuram | Water Conservation-Lake Restoration |
4 | Narasipuram | Water Conservation-Miyawaki Forest |
5 | Vellaimalaipattinam | Portable Drinking Water |
6 | Vellaimalaipattinam | Restoration of Ponds and Water Thank |
7 | Viraaliyur | Solar Coconut Water Dripper |