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Roorkee- Prof. M L Kansal, Head of the Department of Water resources Development & Management, IIT Roorkee awarded an Indo-Netherland (DST-NWO) Project on Urban Water Systems named as " Water4Change - Integrative and fit-for-purpose water sensitive design framework for fast growing liveable cities " .
The core objective of Water4Change is to provide communities,
city, regional and national authorities, NGOs & operators an integrative, fit
for purpose and context sensitive design framework for livable fast growing
secondary cities in India in a co creative manner.
A NWO-DST Sandpit was
organized by DST, Govt. of India as a part of Indo-Netherland Support Program to
identify the possible research proposals in the area of Urban Water Systems.
About 15 experts each from India and Netherland participated in 4 days program.
A budget of 12 crores from DST and equal amount of 1.5 million Euros (12 crores
INR) was earmarked for this project with a time duration of 5 years.
Prof. M
L Kansal was chosen as the Principal Investigator for one of the 3 possible
proposals and framed a consortium of 6 Indian organizations, namely IIT Roorkee;
IIT Gandhinagar; MANIT, Bhopal; CEPT, Ahmedabad; Centre for Water Resources
Development & Management (CWRDM), Kozhikode (Calicut) and CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh
as well as 6 organizations from Netherland, namely Delft University of
Technology, Delft; Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT); University
of Twente; IHE Delft Institute for Water Technology; IRC Wash and Deltares
Expressing his joy Prof Kansal said "It's an honor that our work and ideas
have been acknowledged and appreciated at such a big level. We will work our
best to achieve the objective of our proposed proposal and can contribute to
give our country a proper framework with the help of technology and policy
options."
In the research proposal 4 work packages are suggested involving
secondary cities of Shimla, Bhuj and Kozhikode (Calicut). Each of these work
packages will be coordinated by one of the coordinator at each of the institute.
All the 4 work packages will be further integrated and coordinated by IIT
Roorkee.
About IIT Roorkee ( https://www.iitr.ac.in/ )
IIT Roorkee is
an Institute of national importance imparting higher education in engineering,
sciences, management, architecture and planning, and humanities and social
sciences. Since its establishment in 1847, the Institute has played a vital role
in providing technical manpower and know-how to the country. In the Times Higher
Education World University Rankings 2019, the Institute has been ranked 3rd
among the IITs. IIT Roorkee is an institution with pioneering contribution in
the field of education, training, research and development, advisory services in
various fields including hydrology, water resources, geology, earthquake,
renewable energy and environmental management advisory and has world class
laboratories related to hydropower and water sector.
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