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Water: Part-1 – STP

Water is a treasured resource, especially when many parts of the country are going through a drought. It was therefore thought of by campus development teams to have a full-scale Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) that would treat the waste water generated on campus and recycle most (if not all) of it. The master-planners of IIT Gandhinagar went one step ahead and proposed that given our landscape and opportunities, developing a natural STP made more sense than investing in an expensive, energy intensive and less environment-friendly treatment plant based on chemical treatment. A three-stage STP wherein the first two stages...

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Campus Feature – Solar Panels

We will soon be expanding the installed solar power capacity from 200 kWp to 500 kWp. The new expanded capacity is expected to be completed in the next few weeks. In the past few months, we have on an average saved Rs. 1.27 lakhs per month due to the current 200 kWp...

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Short Course On Human Development and Public Policy

A two day short-course on ‘Human Development and Public Policy’ was conducted at IIT Gandhinagar from 31st March to 1st April 2017. The short course was jointly coordinated by IIT Gandhinagar faculty members and experts from IFMR Sricity (Institute of Institute for Financial Management and Research) and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) – South Asia. The course covered the critical dimensions of human development such as health, education and livelihood; and the policies and governance impacting them. The participants were from various places like IIM Ahmedabad, IIPH- Gandhinagar, EDI, TISS- Mumbai, Gujarat government (GSIDS), NGOs like Agariya Heetrakhsak...

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