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Indian Institute of Technology - Madras (IIT-M) along with the Rural Technology Action Groups (RuTAG) of six other IITs organised a three-day international conference on ‘Rural Technology Development and Delivery’ to attract more mainstream research in rural technologies. The conference, inaugurated on 12 March 2020, has brought together RuTAG teams, faculty and students from IITs in addition to organisations working in related fields to discuss achievements, difficulties and the way forward. RuTAG is an initiative conceptualised and supported by the office of the principal scientific adviser to the central government as a mechanism to provide a high demand-driven science and technology interventions for rural areas through IITs and other technical institutions. RuTAG centres have been established at seven IITs (Madras, Guwahati, Kharagpur, Delhi, Roorkee, Bombay, and Kanpur).