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

2. 2 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

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

4. 4 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

5. 5 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

6. 6 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

7. 7 Training to build smokeless wood stove by RDC at Porapara

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