Govt. and IIT-D to set up Centre of Excellence

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  • GoI and IIT-Delhi will set up a Centre of Excellence for Waste to Wealth Technologies to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

BACKGROUND:

  • This will be done to implement sustainable, scientific and technological solutions for waste management.
  • This will provide an effective platform to bring together integrated approaches for effective recycle, reuse & resource recovery of waste.
  • The waste to wealth mission project has been approved under Prime Minister’s Science Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).
  • The focus is to consolidate all possible Waste to Wealth Technologies, learn from best practices followed worldwide, and implement them at ground level.
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