The National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, forwarded names of four students of their Institute for undertaking practical training on the innovative building materials & disaster resistant construction technologies being promoted by the Council. The students were exposed to the retrofitting work being undertaken at MCD Schools at Vivek Vihar and Lajpat Nagar. In addition, education in the field of technologies being propagated as also how to reduce cost of construction were given to them. The one month training ended in July 2010.