Our Story
Institute for Nature Care and Development (INCD) started its journey with an aim to empower the under privileged sections of the society, the rural areas of India. In partnership with Center for Career and Life-Design Counselling, INCD attempts to inculcate in rural women, children and youth essential skills and knowledge, so that they are empowered to exploit their skill set in pursuit of socio-economic prospects. INCD attempts at addressing the market separation of rural population by giving them necessary training in ‘phy-gital’ mode (physical and digital). At INCD, we focus on capacity building of both rural children and adult learners, to address the issue of rural empowerment on a holistic scale. INCD has been conducting BSS_certified (BSS is the National Development Agency established in 1952 and promoted by Planning Commission, Govt. of India) trainings for rural population across locales in West Bengal, in an attempt to boost their life and livelihood prospects.
Vision
INCD’s vision is to create a more inclusive society through holistic development of rural community at large, with a focus towards empowering them with knowledge, information and opportunities so that they can live a dignified life and become contributing members of society. The twin objective of community development and creation of market opportunities for the rural communities through providing academic and vocational trainings, coupled with digital literacy entrepreneurship development and communication skill training is what makes INCD’s model a self-sustainable one.
Mission
INCD’s mission is to generate empowering opportunities for marginalized rural Ibdian population by
- Providing them recognized certification based career-oriented academic and vocational training
- Inculcating confidence in the overall rural community through soft skill, entrepreneurship, financial and digital literacy training
- Providing them the opportunities to upgrade their acquired skills and improving the quality, productivity, efficiency of the trained workforce
"Learning Management for Rural Children Using Online Teaching Learning Platform", organized by Social Informatics Research Group,IIM Calcutta in collaboration with NexConnect Ventures Pvt. Ltd sponsored by ITRA, Digital India Corporation on 22nd December, 2018.
“Birbhum Coordinator Training Meet” at Bolpur, Birbhum on 19th September, 2018
“NexConnect Entrepreneurs Meet” at IIMCalcutta on 25th August, 2018
“Workshop on Collaborative Creation – Connecting Rural Craft Producers with Urban Social Entrepreneurs” at IIM Calcutta on 23rd February, 2019.
51 students from INCD attended the annual conference of West Bengal Association of Sports Medicine which was held on 21.02.2016 at Narayana Super Speciality Hospital, Howrah where our students received the opportunity to get exposure on applications of various advanced techniques in paramedical field.
A conference was organized by West Bengal Association of Sports Medicine during 25.02.2017-26.02.2017 at Rabindra Bhavan Midnapur. 51 students from INCD participated in that conference and attended a hands-on session to learn various kinds of procedures applicable to treat the patients having knee replacement, ankle injury and breathing trouble.
A conference was organized by West Bengal Association of Sports Medicine on 17.03.2018 at CMRI, Kolkata. 60 students from INCD participated in that conference and attended a hands-on session to learn various kinds of therapeutic procedures for shoulder rehab and sports injury.
Rishikesan Parthiban, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay and Saravana Jaikumar (2019) “ICT Enabled Institutional Entrepreneurship to Mainstream the Marginalised : Insights from the Case of NexConnect in India”. Workshop on Being Human in a Digitized World; Organized by Management Center for Human Values, IIM Calcutta and Association for Information Systems – India Chapter January 2019. [View]
Rishikesan Parthiban, Shalini and Somprakash Bandyopadhyay (2019). “NexConnect Ventures Pvt. Ltd.: Mainstreaming the Marginalized through the Gig Economy”. IIMC Case Research Center (IIMCCRC), January 2019. [View]
Bardhan, A. & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2019) Productive Ageing: Insights from an Action Research dealing with Senior Citizens’ engagement with an E-Learning Platform to Educate Underprivileged Children. Indian Journal of Gerontology. Vol.33, No.2. [View]
Sneha Bhattacharyya, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta Basak (2019), “Social Technology for Rural Community Development: Bridging the Rural Urban Knowledge Divide Digitally”, Workshop on Being Human in a Digitized World; Organized by Management Center for Human Values, IIM Calcutta and Association for Information Systems – India Chapter January 2019.[View]
Sneha Bhattacharyya, Priyadarshini Dey, Jayanta Basak, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay (2019), “Building Resilient Community using Social Technologies: A Precursory Measure for Effective Disaster Management”, Proceedings of International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), January, 2019.[View]
Priyadarshini Dey and Somprakash Bandyopadhyay (2018), “Blended learning to improve quality of primary education among underprivileged school children in India”, Education and Information Technologies, Springer , November 2018 (DOI: 10.1007/s10639-018-9832-1) [View]
Rishikesan Parthiban, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta Basak (2018). “Towards a Nex-Gen Cottage Industry in the Digital Age: Insights from an Action Research with Rural Artisans in India. 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2018, Yokohama, Japan, June 26-30, 2018 [View]
Jayanta Basak, Siuli Roy and Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, “Cultivating Online Communities of Practice as Rural Knowledge Management Strategy in India” Proc of the 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2017), 7 – 8 September 2017, Barcelona, Spain [View]
Team & Advisory Board
Siuli Roy
President, INCD
Partha Protim Roy
Secretary, INCD
Somprakash Badyopadhyay
Advisor, INCD
Jayanta Basak
Member, INCD
Learn More About Us From Video
At INCD, we are involved in imparting quality education and improving life and livelihood prospects of underprivileged sections of the society. We help in delivering quality education to rural children and capacity building training for rural adults and youths. In the purview of vocational training, INCD provides physiotherapy training to underprivileged youths and skill building training to rural artisans and subsequently connects them to urban market channels. Through this video, get a glimpse of our activities.
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