GUNAVATTA YATRA

The Gunvatta Yatra, a core campaign under the Quality Council of India (#QCI) plays a vital role in transforming India’s economic and social infrastructure. By travelling directly to districts, industrial hubs, and grassroots institutions, this nationwide initiative aims to democratise the culture of quality, making international excellence benchmarks accessible to local entities. To align Indian manufacturing with the vision of an #AtmanirbharBharat and #ViksitBharat, the Gunvatta Yatra empowering MSMEs and local Industries. It motivates academic testing infrastructure to pursue #ISO/IEC17025 accreditation, ensuring that research and technical consultancies emerging from India are globally verifiable. It also familiarizing students and research scholars with professional quality management systems directly improves their market readiness and job prospects in highly regulated sectors like pharmaceuticals, aerospace, and medical engineering. Ultimately, the importance of the Gunvatta Yatra lies in its ability to bridge the gap between high-level national policy and ground reality. By replacing strict enforcement with proactive assistance and education, QCI uses the yatra to systematically build a safer, more reliable, and premium quality ecosystem across every district in India.

SATHI IIT Kharagpur is happy to host Gunavatta Yatra on 7th October 2026 at 10 am at the Seminar Hall, SATHI, IIT Kharagpur Campus in association with District Chamber of Commerce of Midnapur.