The Technology Watch Center (TWC) is being established from May 2001, at the National Science Foundation under the auspices of the Science & Technology Personnel Development Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology. It is envisaged that, this center will serve the industries by facilitating local organizations to identify global developments in relevant and applicable technology, and thereby be a partner in, industrial growth and development and, nation building. In its first year in operation the TWC will focus its activities on 4 thrust areas namely, food science & technology, aqua culture technology, textile technology and rubber & polymer science technology, and thereafter gradually expand to all other areas.