Vivekananda Institute of Biotechnology, a branch institution of Sri Ramkrishna Ashram Nimpith under Core Support Program of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, is engaged in development, innovation, modulation and adaptation of appropriate rural technologies, and transferring the selected technologies to the farming community of the Sundarban area through training, awareness building and follow up programs since its inception in 1991. This branch was established with the objectives to access, design and develop multi skill biotechnology programs for application in the field of rural development, to build village based human resource as biotechnology entrepreneurs and create a network of these knowledge worker for the transfer of technology, and to provide service and create knowledge base in the village through network of rural entrepreneurs.