About School of Agro and Rural Technology

School of Agro and Rural Technology (SART) was renamed from Centre for Rural Technology in the year 2021. Centre for Rural Technology at IIT Guwahati was established newly in the year 2016 to promote multidisciplinary activities. Centre will impart teaching, to conduct research and to provide consultancy in various facets of rural sectors with special emphasis on training and research needs of the Indian rural sector and contributing to International research in Appropriate Technology for rural community. The centre in close collaboration with NGO, voluntary organizations, R&D institutes, Government programs/ schemes will provide facilities to innovators/ engineers to contribute meaningfully to the nation to answer the issues like poverty, under developed economy, unemployment, of the rural sector and the challenges imposed by resource constraints. Faculty members from various departments of the institute such as Biosciences and Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, Design, Mechanical Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences are associated with the centre for the promotion of interdisciplinary research for Rural Development. To support the research work in the projects, the centre has two academic programmes - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Master of Technology (MTech).