Objectives

To help India become an inventive and creative society and a global leader in sustainable technologies by scouting, spawning and sustaining grassroots innovations.

To ensure evolution and diffusion of green grassroots innovations in a selective, time bound and mission oriented basis so as to meet the socio-economic and environmental needs of our society.

To provide institutional support in scouting, spawning, sustaining and scaling up grassroots green innovations and helping their transition to self supporting activities, seeking self reliance through competitive advantage of innovation based enterprises and/or application of people generated sustainable technologies at grassroots level.

To evolve strategies and conduct, co-ordinate and support research, design and development efforts in the country on grassroots innovations so as to attain and maintain technological competence and enhance self reliance.

To build linkages between excellence in formal scientific systems and informal knowledge systems and create a Knowledge Network to link various stakeholders through applications of information technologies and also otherwise.

To promote wider social awareness, and possible commercial and non commercial applications of know-how generated as a result of above and encourage their incorporation in educational curriculum, developmental policies and programs.