Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre has facilitated the emergence of a new scenario in the North Eastern India. Five years of its existence in this part of India has struck the imaginations of the population here and led them on to dream about the possibility of a healthy future. Inevitably a future replete with expanded livelihood opportunities stemming unendingly from the right and rich harvest of Bamboos. This is the vision of CBTC. We strongly believe in the thrust which will be felt globally following our role as the matchmaker of the human resource, bamboo and technology.

CBTC was incorporated with the objective of organizing the hitherto untapped bamboo sector of NE India which is a significant occupant of its topography, culture and customary practices since time immemorial. Its formal existence came into being as a coordinated effort of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India, UNIDO and UNDP. CBTC is the field implementation agency and forms a part of the Technology Management Program (TMP) which is a joint effort of Govt of India and UNDP. CBTC has embarked on a new phase of programmes and projects in the bamboo sector with renewed vigor under the aegis of North Eastern Council (NEC). It can be said that CBTC is one of core outreach programme of NEC for giving a shift to the economy of NE in the positive direction. The progress of these two organizations has been acknowledged by the greater community as the change agent whose need was continually felt in the region.

CBTC involves its creativity and resource in talent scouting, training, technology sourcing, market linkage for giving a new age thrust to the age old bamboo sector. Keeping in mind the fast track changes in the global marketplace, contemporizing the traditional presentational aesthetics of bamboo end products receives our priority. In this never ending endeavor of CBTC to unleash a new dimension to bamboo of North East, we have set a benchmark to measure our impact. Unfailingly the apex index of our benchmark is: how many more homes did we add today to the bamboo grove of happiness and prosperity!