Efforts are being made to promote awareness among S&T Institutions of the Country, so that they appreciate the need to contribute to Rural Industrialization. All these efforts have resulted in setting up of Technical Interface Units / Partners of MGIRI in 14 Premier S&T Institutions of the Country, viz.

• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi – (to be launched soon)
• Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
• National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela
• National Institute of Technology (NIT), Calicut
• National Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamirpur – (to be launched soon)
• Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Ranchi
• Vishvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur
• College of Technology and Engineering (CTAE), Udaipur
• North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Itanagar