C-DAC, Kolkata is a R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India in the area of IT and Electronics. As an institution for high-end Research and Development (R&D), C-DAC, Kolkata has been at the forefront of the Information Technology (IT) revolution, constantly building capacities in emerging/enabling technologies and innovating and leveraging its expertise, calibre, skill sets to develop and deploy IT products and solutions for different sectors of the economy, as per the mandate of its parent (MeitY), and other stakeholders including funding agencies, collaborators, users and the market-place
C-DAC, Kolkata is a resource centre for Electronics for Agriculture & Environment. This is an emerging and multidisciplinary frontier of advanced research, to ensure optimum induction of IT & Electronics for improvement of productivity, quality and value of agriculture produce. Currently, in the field of IoT and AI-ML, C-DAC Kolkata is the crucible of research, innovation and commercialization of products and system solutions in the field of agriculture and environmental electronics. The thrust area of this centre include Application of IoT in Agriculture, Mechanization and Robotics in Agriculture, Agricultural Data Analytics, AI-ML based Machine Vision and ICT Application in Environment.