What is now known as the project development institute PRODA was formally the east central state project development agency (ECSPDA), a cooperate body established by the erstwhile east central state government to promote the
establishment of new industrial project through laboratory and pilot investigations to actual construction of large scale commercial plant, utilizing local raw materials and indigenous man power. It was envisaged that home grown industries could be launched very cheaply in keeping with the agency’s motto “industry through self-reliance”. With the creation of Anambra and Imo state from the former east central state in 1976, the agency was then made a parastatal under the Nigerian Council for Science and Technology (NCST). The agency was later renamed PROJECT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE with its acronym, PRODA still retained.
PRODA was created in 1980 by the federal government of Nigerian as a research institute under the ministry of science and technology.
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