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The institute is developing a number of land pockets as fruit orchards. The species of fruits are chosen to be ones that are not large trees. Plantation of fruit plants for the past couple of seasons have had limited success due to destruction by cattle and Neelgais. For this season though, we expect better results. This season, we have thus far planted 66 Chickoo plants, 284 Pomegranate (Dadam) plants, 445 Guava (Jamphal) plants, 346 Custard Apple (Sitaphal) plants, 350 Mosambi plants, 100 Apple Ber plants and 100 Lemon (Nimbu plants). We are also in the process of planting 500 Falsa...

Gujarat and its neighbouring states have historically valued water and water conservation highly. This trait is apparent in the simple yet effective rainwater harvesting system that is integrated with traditional architecture and with elaborate social spaces such as the Vavs (stepwells). Seeking inspiration from these age-old concepts of Gujarat, the campus planners at IITGN proposed several underground rainwater harvesting tanks, with a symbolic structure above them called Jal Mandaps. The mandaps will also form nodes for social spaces at the institute, paving a nice way to celebrate water while conserving it. There are currently four such Jal Mandaps nearing...

campus values an energy-efficient ecosystem. There are several ways in which solar energy is helping save energy on campus. The IITGN grid interactive roof top solar PV project with a current installed capacity of total 200 kWp (and planned 500kWp in the next few months) is distributed in academic blocks and hostel buildings. This rooftop solar PV plant is funded by the Government of Gujarat and the plan is to instrument this plant with data acquisition and monitoring system which will complement research in the area of solar power generation forecasting and impact assessment of these distributed solar PV...