As a consulting firm, the experiences of ITMC are wide and vast. The project executed by ITMC covers a large number of sectors/fields of national importance such as Agricultural & Rural Development, Fisheries & Livestock, Water resources, Water Supply & Sanitation, Health & Family Planning, Education, Technical, Overseas Training & Study Tour,  Public Sector Reform & Governance, Science & Technology, Gender Development, Land, Housing, Urban Development, Environment, Road, Transport, Port & Waterways, Power & Energy, Telecom, Financial Institutions & Industries, Labor & Employment, NGOs, & Private Sector and others.

The expertise of ITMC is extensive and multi-sector in nature. A brief of the ITMC expertise has been outlined in the following paragraphs in alphabetic order.

Agricultural Research and Extension

Effective research and extension services are essential for the successful introduction of modern innovations at the farm level. ITMC’s specialists in research and extension are committed to strengthening the application and adaptation of technologies and cultural practices at the farm level through the introduction of appropriate methods, work schedules and manuals, and demonstration and training programs for research and extension personnel as well as farmers. Its experts are also engaged in establishing research-extension linkages for the dissemination of technology from the laboratory to the farm.

Agricultural and Rural Development Sector

A large majority of people in developing countries depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Many of these countries are characterized by overpopulation, a limited resource base, and fragile ecosystems. Poverty, in many of these countries, is widespread and often endemic, unemployment is rampant, food shortages are frequent, development performance is generally unsatisfactory, and the sustainability of the development effort is doubtful.

The United Nations and other international agencies have long been working to promote agricultural development as an essential part of improving the living standards of people in the rural areas, seeking to provide relief to victims of malnutrition, while at the same time attempting to promote regional and national development.

To achieve these goals, efficient management of water resources along with the introduction of new high-yielding varieties, vocational and technical training, strengthening of support services, and crop intensification programs are regarded as essential steps in raising agricultural production and productivity.

In this sector, ITMC has been intensively involved in activities such as agricultural research and training, irrigation and drainage systems, crop intensification and diversification, food processing, integrated farming, land use planning, soil classification, farmland conservation, watershed management, rural credit, rural development, and training. It has placed special emphasis on directing its consulting experts to keep abreast of the newest techniques and developments in the related areas.

ITMC provides services for project identification & formulation, socioeconomic and technology-related research, feasibility study, bench-mark survey, economic and financial analyses, agro-socio-economic studies, study on resource management, formulation of development policy, project evaluation, monitoring and management, manpower training, financial management, and organizational set-up and system management.

Fisheries and Livestock

In many developing countries with a low per capita income, the livestock and fisheries have become important subjects in terms of GDP growth and employment opportunities for an increasing number of small and marginal farmers and fishermen, as well as young people with school and college education who join the ranks of the unemployed. These sub-sectors also hold promise for private investment. A number of developing Asian countries have, indeed, emphasized the development of livestock and fisheries sub-sectors as means of alleviating rural poverty, particularly among the landless and the female population.

Mechanized Agro-Industry

ITMC is aware of the importance of appropriate mechanization in agricultural production and has undertaken many project analyses with mechanization and /or agro-industrial components. Such analyses, which usually include an assessment of financial and economic viability, cover a wide range of technologies from improved animal draft implementation design to computer-controlled agro-industrial processes.

Forestry

Forests preserve habitat for a wide variety of birds and animals and provide a mechanism for the maintenance and rehabilitation of soils. At the same time, they constitute a valuable resource, which, under appropriate management, will provide a continuing financial return. ITMC has conducted a wide range of vegetation resource and forest inventory surveys throughout most of the echo-climatic conditions found in the world. Its forest management approach seeks to select species to suit objectives as well as ecological conditions, design maintenance programs based on sound cultural practices, and control harvesting and replanting operations. In addition, the planting of trees for landscaping, erosion control, and fuelwood will provide important elements in the improvement of the quality of life. ITMC also has a wealth of experience in planning and development of horticulture research, production, and marketing. It can provide highly experienced services in these sectors in developing countries.

Education

In the education sector, ITMC services aim at providing its clients with a complete range of consultations, expert advice, planning, design, procurement of equipment, project management, and training services, including the undertaking of entire educational facilities or complexes on a turnkey basis. In the past, its services have been directed to management training and research institutes, technical schools, teacher training colleges, teaching hospitals, industrial research facilities, and trade and skill centers. ITMC has had substantial involvement in all phases of educational projects from the initial stage of planning to the preparation of educational materials and management and provision of post-project evaluation. It is also highly experienced in educational planning, professional training, curriculum development, program development, and evaluation. It has a wide interest in educational delivery systems, skill development through formal and non-formal channels, and educational need assessment. In the education and training sector, the typical assignments have included:

• Technical and management assistance to educational institutions at various levels (both formal and non-formal);
• Analysis of skilled manpower needs at plant, regional or national level, policy advice and elaboration of educational programs to meet those needs;
• Project management and supervision of construction of educational buildings and facilities;
• Organization and coordination of fellowship training courses overseas and of specialized on-the-job training programs for all technical and management levels;
• Curriculum design and development of teaching materials for technical and industrial training;
• Specifications, procurement and installation of educational equipment, laboratories, and pilot plants;
• Study and design of technical and vocational training institutes;
• Industrial training on-the-job and through specialized courses for new and existing industrial plants;
• Turnkey realization of colleges, training institutes, libraries, technical schools, research centers, and pilot plants;
• Feasibility studies for universities, polytechnic, and secondary technical schools;
• Planning and design of university buildings complexes, research facilities, and residential and other campus infrastructures.

Water Supply and Sanitation

Adequate and timely supply of potable water is important not only to enhance the quality of living but for life itself. Studies, investigations, and evaluations of water supply projects and alternative options are necessary for the consumption and management of efficient and effective supply systems. Additionally, demand assessment, analysis, supply services, and their constraints, their economic evaluations, and assessment of the effects on the environment are to be carried out in developing the water supply systems. Exploration and treatment of water to enable it to be used for its intended purposes may require reservoirs, pumping stations, treatment works, and distribution pipelines.

ITMC has experience in all aspects of water supply, distribution, and treatment, and, together with comprehensive backup services, can provide the requisite skills to produce cost-effective solutions.

Engineering and Infrastructure Development

ITMC is well regarded for carrying out large and complex projects on time and within budget. It is known, too, for successful small projects that call for skill and ingenuity. ITMC provides consultancy services in all phases for implementation of infrastructure development projects, such as pre-feasibility and feasibility studies; all types of survey and planning; detailed architectural and structural design; preparation of bill of quantities, specifications, tender documents, and form of contracts; evaluation of tenders; construction supervision and quality control; maintenance supervision; and post-evaluation. ITMC is mainly involved in construction technology; bridge engineering; industrial engineering; transportation (road, rail, waterway, and aviation); architecture; geotechnical services; and energy. The design of technically sound, cost-effective, and aesthetically pleasing structures has been an important component of many of the major projects, for which ITMC has provided consulting services. ITMC is at the forefront of computer-aided design and project management. Engineers use sophisticated programs to find the best design solutions. Designers use CAD to produce accurate drawings faster. ITMC’s interactive online computer systems for project control are recognized as the best in the industry.

Bridge Engineering

Engineers and technical staff of ITMC are capable of executing all types of bridges and culverts such as balanced cantilever, deck girder, pre-stressed box culvert, MS fabricated bridge, suspended bridge, etc. In bridge engineering, ITMC has earned experience in the Country and also in many Asian countries. Throughout its work, ITMC adopts an approach, which is sensitive to local needs and conditions, as well as to the environment. Solutions are tailored to the requirements of each individual project to ensure the most efficient and cost-effective service to the client.

Industrial Engineering

ITMC has a wealth of experience in planning, engineering, and design, procurement, and project management services to clients in the Country. It serves utilities, developers, and diverse industrial clients in the fields of iron and steel, chemicals, minerals, fertilizer, jute and textile, pulp and paper, mining, and manufacturing. Projects are conceptualized in terms of total life-cycle and environmental objectives. Fully integrated multi-disciplinary teams provide cost-effective solutions to client problems. ITMC can provide well-experienced specialists in these sectors. Its decades of expertise in traditional industrial engineering disciplines are continually updated to serve emerging demands in improved plant efficiency, energy management, effective production, automation and information technology, and waste management. ITMC also provides a full range of testing and analytical facilities.

Transportation

The development of a country depends on the development of an efficient transport network, and the planning of transport facilities is of paramount importance to the modern world. In the transportation sector, ITMC’s involvement includes highways; expressways; rural feeder roads; automobile and motorcycle test tracks, cycle and horse race tracks; interchanges and highway appurtenances; railroads and monorails; tunnels for highways and subways; waterways; docks, harbors, and marine works; airports; and related structures. ITMC is experienced in transportation planning including comparative studies; regional and urban traffic planning and control; integrated transport systems; public passenger transport studies; detailed design of the facilities; construction supervision and monitoring; and economic evaluation.

Architecture

In the architecture sector, ITMC has experience and expertise in the fields of commercial buildings and utilities; housing complexes; educational institutions, hospitals, and social welfare facilities; auditorium; storehouses and workshops; ports and marine works; and industries.

Geotechnical Services

ITMC has experience and expertise in soil and geological study; sampling and testing of soil; rock mechanics testing; electric prospecting and boring testing; geological mapping; foundation exploration; hydro-geological study; geological evaluation of roads, dams, tunnels, and other structures; investigation of underground resources.

Environmental Services

ITMC has wide experience in providing technical services for environmental studies pertaining to assessment, social impact, and abatement planning. As a leading consulting group in natural resource management and planning, it is committed to resource conservation. It has lately been engaged in the areas of environmental protection and pollution abatement and has a special interest and capability in planning and developing environmentally efficient energy systems.

Waste Removal and Treatment

The efficient and hygienic removal of solid and liquid wastes has come to be regarded as a milestone of progress. Suitable treatment of these wastes is an essential requirement for the protection of life and the environment. Modern treatment processes may not be the most suitable in all cases. In developing countries, special consideration must be given to the operation and maintenance requirements and social customs. ITMC has the multi-disciplinary expertise and extensive experience needed to carry out the studies, prepare detailed design and supervise the implementation of projects in this sub-sector.

Soil Conservation

Many parts of the world are experiencing reduced agricultural production as a result of land degradation due to soil erosion. The environmental aspects are many, ranging from degradation of soil quality (including desertification and water logging) to siltation of reservoirs, contamination of drinking water supplies, and the destruction of plant and animal life of near-shore and inshore environments.

Land Reclamation

Rehabilitation of derelict land takes many forms and involves a wide range of environmental problems, as well as conventional engineering aspects. ITMC’s experience includes the reclamation of land under irrigation damaged by salinity and the restoration of affected areas following the extraction of minerals.

Environmental Planning

Practicable environmental planning must achieve a sound balance between resource utilization and environmental protection, with proper emphasis on socio-economic needs and benefits. Planning strategies, incorporating a wide range of technical and legal measures, are needed to achieve this difficult but vital balance. Planning decisions should be directed toward the key environmental issues identified during the evaluation stage. They should aim at achieving mitigation of critical impacts in the short term, while promoting sustainability of resource utilization in the long term. Environmental planning requires a sound ecological basis accompanied by sufficient flexibility to adapt to changing socio-economic requirements and perspectives.

Financial Sector and Capital Market Development 

Financial institutions and Capital market plays a major role in the world economy and business. These are relevant in terms of institutionalizing efficient and transparent mechanisms for raising long-term funds for industrial and financial sector development, diversifying the ownership structure of enterprises, and providing framework for promoting investors confidence. ITMC activities in this area have consisted of  services for improving governance, restructuring and recapitalization of commercial banks, privatizing government owned commercial banks,  improving the environment of debt recovery, structural efficiency and comprehensiveness of the financial systems, creating efficient capital market operation system, developing computerized information system,  improving the share transfer policy, designing the related human resources development strategy and plans, and implementing relevant training programs.

Health, Nutrition, and Family Planning

ITMC has a pool of expertise in these areas. It has experience and interest in health care delivery systems, family welfare, and planning and management of the related services for sustainable development.

Labor and Employment

Employment generation is a primary objective of economic policy in a densely populated economy particularly in South Asian and South East Asian regions.  While agriculture continues to be the chief source of employment, non-farm activities are providing employment to an increasing proportion of the labour force.  For example, in 1995, labour force of Bangladesh was estimated at 61.7 million, 37% of which were unemployed or under-employed; and of those employed, about one-third were employed in non-formal sector activities. Non-formal employment has provided a partial solution to the rapid growth of labour force faced with the lack of absorption capacity of the agricultural sector.  The limited industrial base will not be able to exercise the necessary demand pull from the formal sector.  Scarcity of capacity, skills and other resources in the non-formal sector will impede an adequate response to the demand pull.

Employment and income generating activities to absorb surplus labour involving poor, women and other socially disadvantaged groups require support for motivation, promotion of awareness, selection of suitable economic activities, technology transfer, training for skill development, credit and provision of inputs.  The employment generation in small scale manufacturing including handlooms, wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants, services and the household sector will be explored.  ITMC’s experts are providing consultancy services in vocational education, skill development and training, and income generation activities in developing countries.

The non-formal sector comprises a large number of small-scale production and service activities that are individually or family owned and uses labour-intensive and simple technology. The self-employed workers in non-formal sector generally have little formal education, are usually unskilled and lack access to capital resources. As a result, labour productivity and income tend to be lower in the non-formal sector than in the formal sector. In this sector, UCIL is involved in skill development, employment generation and non-formal vocational training projects. ITMC’s teams of professional are providing consultancy services in undertaking such activities in the non-formal sector.

Regional Planning and Development

ITMC’s particular areas of involvement include: urban and regional planning; new town planning; land-use planning; distribution center planning; industrial park planning; recreational facility planning; urban and rural traffic system planning; open space planning; industrial and residential area development planning; city and industrial water supply and sewage treatment; refuse incinerator facility planning; and environmental study. Regional planning involves the integration of information from a wide range of disciplines in the natural, environmental, physical, and social sciences to identify feasible development scenarios and then prepare comprehensive development plans.

Sector Studies and Project Planning

ITMC has carried out studies for sectoral development which involves primary and secondary resource management and appraisal. At the same time, it also provides technical services for project planning from identification to appraisal and evaluation.

Training and Overseas Fellowship/Placement Services

During the past years, ITMC, in association with a number of other companies and, in some cases, in collaboration with selected institutions and nongovernmental organizations, has executed scholarship and training programs in a number of fields in several countries. It also organized study visits and fellowships for officials implementing development programs at different levels. The services offered included identifying appropriate training institutions in the different regions, designing training packages by specialists having experience of working in both developed and developing countries, placement of the trainees, administration of training programs, and enhancing the role of the trainees in their respective countries. The courses provided were of varying durations, ranging from study visits of 2-3 weeks for senior officials to diploma courses of 3-6 months for mid-level officials, and academic programs extending over 1-3 years leading to Master’s and PhD programs. A large number of trainees have so far been catered for in areas as diverse as agriculture, irrigation, environment, education, health care, forestry, fisheries, computer studies, engineering, industry, energy, management, and MIS.

Through its own training division and permanent core group, ITMC provides a comprehensive range of training services through on-the-job training of client’s staff; subject-specific workshops and seminars; short courses in USA or overseas; and training programs at carefully selected institutions of higher learning and at ITMC headquarters.

ITMC has a complement of well-experienced in-house experts for developing the curricula, training materials and coordination of training programs.

Mechanization and the introduction of improved practices in farming as well as in off-farm enterprises have, in the recent years, brought about an ever increasing demand for training of people employed in the rural sectors of developing countries. To cope with the requirement, training and extension services are strongly emphasized by ITMC when providing services related to rural development.

Water Resources Management

The rapid economic growth in industrialized and agricultural areas has brought to light an increasing number of shortages in the earth’s natural resources. Among these, lack of water constitutes a critical shortage.

Shortages of water, felt most painfully in the world’s arid regions, but by no means limited to these areas alone, have been aggravated in recent years by ecological changes and increased consumption for human and industrial use.

In response to the need for every society to have access to sufficient supplies of water, ITMC has made particular efforts to develop water resources through such projects as reservoirs, river improvement, groundwater development, and water sewage treatment. In general, ground water would be capable of more rapid development than surface water, which would require construction of dams, canals, and other large-scale civil works. As in most arid countries where surface water supplies are limited, ground water must satisfy water requirements. In a number of African nations, nearly all water supplies originate in ground water resources. To assist these clients, ITMC began, several years ago, to carry out specialized studies in ground water development, applying its technical skills and experience to obtain clearer insights into many related problems.

ICT Development

ITMC is well regarded for carrying out ICT related project in Bangladesh and abroad. ITMC mainly involved in consultancy services for IT support project, IT related study and survey, complex software solution, IT training, ERP system development, IT training for women empowerment etc.