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UBA initiatives on green energy at IIT Kharagpur –

2015-2016

Debasis Roy (debasis@civil.iitkgp.ernet.in)

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UBA at IIT Kharagpur

• Core committee formed by Director, IIT KGP▪ With Prof Debasis Roy (CE) as institute

coordinator, and Prof VK Tewari (Head, AGFE and RDC) and Prof PBS Bhadoria (AGFE and RuTAG coordinator) as members

▪ Core committee is meeting every month since january 2015 to coordinate UBA activities in Kharagpur

• Participating units▪ NSS, AGFE, RDC, RuTAG, SMST and ATDC

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Need assessment• Survey at 23

villages▪ ~1200

households▪ At 23

villages

• Water quality assessment▪ At 3 villages

over last 6 months

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State-of-affairs• Meager income level▪ Annual per capita income often below Rs

3000▪ Literacy rate comparable to nat. avg. but

little higher education and vocational skill▪ High dropout rate

• Non-engineered infrastructure▪ ~70 % of the houses are non-engineered

• Poor water quality▪ Elevated iron levels in drinking water

samples

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State-of-affairs…

• Poor sanitation level▪ ~20 % or less of the households surveyed

had toilets ▪ High bacterial load in drinking water

• Over-reliance on firewood ▪ Fulfills ~60 % of cooking need

• Extremely poor nutrition level▪ ~80 % of primary school children are

underweight, ~70 % malnourished

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Green energy initiatives

• Promote solar energy in cooking▪ Equipping primary schools at Gangadharpur,

Gholghoria and Upar Kenthia with solar reflectors for use in midday meal preparation

▪ NSS volunteers are to assemble the reflectors on site from kits from PRINCE, Dhule

▪ Savings in fuel costs are to be ploughed back in improving nutrition level

• Promote efficient wood burning stoves among tribal households of Nachna

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Training to build smokeless wood stove by RDC at Porapara

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Assembled solar reflector kits to be installed at Gangadharpur, Gholghoria

and Upar Kenthia