UBA initiatives on green energy at IIT Kharagpur

UBA initiatives on green energy at IIT Kharagpur – 2015 -2016 Debasis Roy (debasis@civil. iitkgp. ernet. in) 1

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 Ru. TAG coordinator) as members ▪ Core committee is meeting every month since january 2015 to coordinate UBA activities in Kharagpur • Participating units ▪ NSS, AGFE, RDC, Ru. TAG, SMST and ATDC 2

Need assessment • Survey at 23 villages ▪ ~1200 households ▪ At 23 villages • Water quality assessment ▪ At 3 villages over last 6 months 3

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 4

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 5

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 6

Training to build smokeless wood stove by RDC at Porapara 7

Assembled solar reflector kits to be installed at Gangadharpur, Gholghoria and Upar Kenthia 8