{"id":12323,"date":"2016-07-09T10:43:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T10:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=12320&amp;preview_id=12320"},"modified":"2016-07-09T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T10:43:27","slug":"iit-pitches-in-for-namami-gange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=12323","title":{"rendered":"IIT pitches in for Namami Gange &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kanpur: As part of its endeavour to achieve &#8216;aviral aur nirmal&#8217; (continuous and clean) flow of Ganga under the Namami Gange project, IIT-Kanpur has started technical survey in five villages close to the river.The team is working on three aspects during the survey &#8211; do villagers use toilets, where is the solid waste discharged and what is the arrangement for sanitation and water supply.<\/p>\n<p>The team also found out the number of domestic animals and the arrangement for their drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Vinod Tare of IIT-K, who is closely associated with the Namami Gange project, said 13 prominent educational institutions have adopted 65 villages situated on the banks of Ganga. These institutions include NIT Uttarakhand, IIT-Roorkee, Aligarh Muslim University, NIT Allahabad, IIT-BHU, ISM-Dhanbad and IIT-Kharagpur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These 65 villages are situated on the river bank between Alaknanda to Gangasagar. Ganga travels through seven states and covers a distance of 2,500 kms before flowing into Bay of Bengal,&#8221; said Prof Tare who has been working on Ganga for the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Abhishek Gaur, senior project associate at IIT-K and part of the team, said the survey is almost complete in Ramel Nagar, Khayora Katri, Pratappur Hari, Hindupur and Ludhawakhera villages situated close to Ganga.<\/p>\n<p>Tare said preparations are on to construct a new ghat at the barrage. He said soon the work of renovation of the city ghats will begin.<\/p>\n<p>In Bithoor, beautification of the ghats would be done by Kanpur Development Authority (KDA).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanpur: As part of its endeavour to achieve &#8216;aviral aur nirmal&#8217; (continuous and clean) flow of Ganga under the Namami Gange project, IIT-Kanpur has started technical survey in five villages close to the river.The team is working on three aspects during the survey &#8211; do villagers use toilets, where is the solid waste discharged and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}