Extension Activities
The information about various renewable energy gadgets are taken to the end users through extension activities of this department. Various field trainings, entrepreneurship programmes, seminars, short courses etc. are being conducted to impart training to officers, unemployed graduates, field workers, Non-Governmental Organisations, industrialists and farmers.
Biogas Development and Training Centre (BDTC) funded by 100 % by MNRE is one of the training components of this department and it was started in 1982 (vide letter No. 9-7 / 82 biogas dated 23.3.1982) to popularize and develop biogas programme in southern states. Training on biogas plant construction and maintenance aspects are organized for masons, unemployed youths, etc by this centre for every year. Also, our BDTC is serving as nodal centre for the four Southern states.