IIT Delhi to Build a Centre of Excellence for Waste to Wealth Technologies

The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi has announced that they will be introducing a new Centre of Excellence for Waste to Wealth Technologies. This step has been taken as a way to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th Birthday. The initiative is a joint effort of IIT-D and Government of India’s Principle Scientific Advisor (PSA). Both the parties have agreed to join hands to improve the waste management system of India by bringing the best scientific and technological solutions on the table.

Professor V. Ramgopal Rao, the director of IIT Delhi had signed an MoU with Professor K Vijay Raghavan, the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, that marks the beginning of the setting of the Centre of Excellence. The Centre of Excellence will help in bringing about the application of Technological and scientific solutions to the issues regarding waste management which are sustainable as well. They aim to create such solutions via the use and the validation of the technologies that are currently available for the conversion of waste into wealth.

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The Prime Minister’s Science Technology and Innovation Advisory Council, also known as PM-STIAC, has approved of the project of waste to wealth mission. PM-STIAC is a body that assesses, creates as well as implements some of the large-scale technological, scientific innovations for India.

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This partnership has built a platform for all the stakeholders in the project so that they can bring together all the “integrated approaches” which will, in turn, result in an effective system that will ensure all the waste can be recycled, reused or have resources recovered from the waste.