Welcome to NTF

For the Assamese literature, this is considered as one of the final frontiers. No research on Assamese literature is complete without the Foundation’s help. The Foundation is the treasure house of the Assamese literature of the early nineteenth century to the twentieth century, where scientifically the documents, journals and books are preserved through digitalization as well as conventional method.
            Systematic research are being carried out on the Assamese literature beside helping almost every single major publication of the Assamese literature in the past one and half decade.
            The entire collection was the life long creation of Late Nanda Talukdar who died in a tragic car accident in 1983 but his immediate family carried on his work and gave the shape of the Foundation making it open for every researchers of the Assamese literature.
            As the years have passed by, so is the role of the foundation, it has now grown to an institution which has specialized in doing social audit on the micro credit and rural economy besides highlighting the success stories both through academic dissection as  well publication targeting ordinary masses.
            Moreover, in an attempt to revive the reading habit, the publication wing of the  NTF have been activated as both children literature, academic research books as well as travel handbooks are being published.

Digitilisation

The core competency of the Nanda Talukdar Foundation is the digitalisation of the nineteenth century Assamese litterateur. As the Foundation is the home for the sole surviving copy of “Ounodoy”(1846) and “Jonaki”, “Bahi” all these have been carefully digitalised, cleaned and stored for posterity. It is now looking for suitable partner to take it to newer height.

Social Audit

This is a new concept. In every single government projects, the biggest stakeholders are the ordinary people who have no stake whatsoever in these project although the projects are meant for them. Through the social audit, the project is audited from the social point of view. The Foundation is the pioneer in this regard and have done social audit on various rural development projects of SIRD, CAPART and World Bank.