RITES, IIT Kanpur tie up for sustainable future

The MoU pertains to exploring opportunities in the areas of sustainability, including ESG and carbon-related works such as carbon neutrality in sectors such as steel, cement and power among others.  

RITES, the transport infrastructure consultancy and engineering firm, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur for mutual assistance and cooperation to strengthen and develop a sustainable future by ‘Transforming to Green’.  

The umbrella MoU pertains to exploring opportunities in the areas of sustainability, including ESG and carbon-related works such as carbon neutrality in sectors such as steel, cement and power among others.  The agreement also includes R&D-related works on air quality sensors to align RITES with the vision of MoEFCC and MoHUA to address air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste management.  

One such R&D initiative from RITES and IIT Kanpur is a dynamic hyper-local source apportionment for real-time policy action. The team will deploy sensor packages at 3-4 locations and fully instrumented mobile lab will be deployed at each site for 10 days in two seasons.  

Thus, collected data will be used to collect source information which will be shared with municipal corporations, para-statal departments, stakeholders, central and state governments for taking suitable measures to control air pollution in the non-attainment cities (NACs), including Kanpur, Lucknow, and Bengaluru.   

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