Rural development with bamboo and rattan in Northeast India

The main objectives of the project are to enable the development of livelihoods utilizing bamboo resources in three districts, one each in the states of Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura. Although the project has a broad objective of livelihood with various components, bamboo housing would be one of them. This is a community-based project where most of the developmental decisions will be made by villagers themselves.

The project implementation partners are government of each state who will provide major funding for the project, TAMBAC (Tamenglong Bamboo and Cane Center), TRIBAC (Tripura Bamboo and Cane Center) and KOLBAC (Kolasib Bamboo and cane center) in Manipur, Tripura and Mizoram respectively.

Architect Gaurav Sharma has been actively working for designing and construction of bamboo housing in India with above partners.

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