IIT Roorkee receives grant for water design
IIT Roorkee has been awarded the Indo-netherland project on Water4change – Integrative and Fit-for-purpose Water Sensitive Design Framework for the fast Growing Liveable Cities of India. This award was given by the minister of Science & Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan in presence of King and Queen of Netherlands during the DST-CII India-netherland Technology Summit in New Delhi.
A consortium of IIT Gandhinagar (IITG) – Gujarat, CEPT University - Gujarat, Center for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) – Calicut, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) – Bhopal, Delft University of Technology – Delft, University of Twente – Enschede, Dutch Research Institute for Transitions – Rotterdam, Stichting Deltares – Delft, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education – Delft, IRC Wash – The Hague with a lead from IIT Roorkee under the supervision of Prof. ML Kansal as Principal Investigator has been formed for the 5 years project. This project will focus on urban water systems for the secondary cities mainly the Bhuj, Bhopal, and Kozhikode (Calicut).
DST- CII tech summit mulls on new areas of knowledge co-operation.
This summit focuses on food security through better technology for agriculture, water and wastewater management, and t echnology f or i mproving health.
The Kingdom of Netherlands was the partner country for the 2019 summit. More than 200 companies from the Netherlands and about 250 from India participated in this summit.