CAPART

- The Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) is im autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Rural Development.
- It was set up in September 1986, as a supporting and funding agency for the voluntary organisations.
- Its primary objective is to promote voluntary action through community participation and to propagate appropriate rural technologies for the benefit of downtrodden people (SC/ST/OBC and others) living in rural areas.
- CAPART's 9 Regional Centres at Jaipur, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneshwar, Patna, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Guwahati and Dharwad have been closed down in March 2012.
- Presently, re-structuring to CAP ART is under process by the Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India. New Delhi.