Apart from polytechnics and engineering colleges, other market segments like professional institutions, industry, public service organisations, vocational education and community at large, needs bigger support now for human resources development. The NITTTR, Bhopal has, in the past, demonstrated its potential for catering to the wide ranging needs through innovations in Technical Education System as well as to the job market needs of the developing countries also. The institute, with its enhanced mandate, has now become a major resource institution and a centre of excellence for the overall growth and expansion of technical education system of the country and has larger responsibility to contribute to a wide ranging diverse labour market. The Institute holds expertise through continuous R&D in the areas of HRD, curriculum development, design & development of learning resources, educational management, policy formulation, continuing education, student assessment, multi-media development, community networking, industrial liaison and technical education research. NITTTR, Bhopal has an excellent track record of introducing several new systems in the technical education and has successfully implemented several time-bound and professionally challenging projects for varied clientele. In nineties, the Institute has successfully served the client states in implementing the highly acclaimed and successful World Bank Assisted Projects viz. Tech. Ed. I & II on Strengthening the Technician Education System. The third phase of this project, Tech. Ed. III is being implemented now in the North-Eastern states in which the Institute is providing need-based customised support as an Academic Consultant to the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland.