IIT Roorkee organises workshop on Drinking-water and sanitation

IIT Roorkee has organised a workshop on Drinking-Water and Sanitation: Current Situation And Future Challenges, read here to know more.

The Department of Water Resources Development and Management, IIT Roorkee has organised a one-day workshop on “Drinking Water and Sanitation: Current Situation and Future Challenges”.

Ms Vini Mahajan, IAS, Secretary, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt. of India, New Delhi was the Chief Guest of the Inaugural program.

She said, "Under Swachch Bharat Mission Phase-2 in 2019 our Prime Minister announced, “Jal Jeevan Mission” under which every household in the country should have tap water. More than 50 percent of the rural household have received rural water connection so far and it is expected to achieve the task of ‘HarGhar Jal (Water to every household)’ by 2024."

"This is a matter of great pleasure that IIT Roorkee has introduced a new M Tech program on Drinking Water and Sanitation as being Introduced by IIT Roorkee is remarkable progress in the WASH sector," she added, as reported by India Education Diary.

Prof Ajit K Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee said that this workshop is a curtain-raiser for the newly introduced M Tech program on Drinking Water and Sanitation by the Department of Water Resources Development and Management, IIT Roorkee.

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Prof Ashish Pandey, Head, Department of WRD&M, IIT Roorkee presented the welcome address. He apprised that the MTech program in Drinking Water and Sanitation has been developed to address the challenges in Drinking Water and Sanitation faced by the Afro-Asian Countries including India, in the water sector.

Prof VP Singh, Distinguished Professor, WRD&M Department, and Regents Professor, Texas A&M University also addressed the inaugural function. He discussed in detail the multidisciplinary aspects of Safe drinking Water, Sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) which are covering the sustainable development goal of the United Nation program.

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