Department of Atomic Energy has launched DAE-Societal Initiative for utilization of Non-Power Applications (NPAs) and Spin-off technologies in the area of water, agriculture, food processing and agri-land improvement through urban and rural waste management. Within this frame work, the structured program called “
AKRUTI-KRUTIK-FORCE” has been formulated by BARC, Trombay, Mumbai. It is implemented through technically oriented NGOs for techno-economic growth of the rural sector, as one of the many schemes of large scale deployment of BARC technologies - 4th Key Driver of Major programmes of DAE.