Ongoing Projects
Establishment of food testing laboratory in Assam
September 20, 2016
| Environment
The objectives are to: (i) analyze the samples from licensed food business operators and other stakeholders; (ii) reduce the transportation time of food samples; (iii) ensure compliance of domestic/international safety standards on food produced and consumed in the region; (iv) assist the authority establish during surveillance for monitoring food safety; (v) promote entrepreneurship in food processing sector; (vi) awareness generation and capacity building.
Economics of adaptation: assessing incremental and transformative change
September 19, 2016
The CARIAA programme has issued a call for concept notes to fund activities that further collaboration and co-production across consortia and offer new opportunities to progress towards the programme’s overall objectives. This concept note is in response to this call and is submitted on behalf of the cross-CARIAA working group on economics. We propose to hold a training course in spring 2016 targeted at CARIAA junior economists, to build their capacity with regard to advanced economic methods and tools to be used for CARIAA research.
PNB Rooftop Solar PMC
September 1, 2016
| Energy
TERI will offer a full range of project management consultancy services in the installation of rooftop solar PV systems at all the Farmers' Training Centres --- from feasibility study and site assessment to third-party inspection and post-installation monitoring.
Improving Sustainable Energy Access among SC/ST households in Chamarajanagar District of Karnataka – A pilot study
September 1, 2016
| Energy
| Energy Access
In this project, 250 Integrated Domestic Energy Systems (cook-stoves, solar home lights, and mobile charging facilities) and 500 low-cost forced draft cook-stoves would be disseminated through local level entrepreneurship model. Awareness and training programmes would also be organized and technical know-how would be provided to village level energy entrepreneurs and end-users of cook-stoves. They would be selected in consultation with the staff of Grama Panchayath, Zilla Panchayath, and Rural Development Panchayath Raj.
Documenting the biodiversity of flora and fauna of a North Goa island
August 30, 2016
| Environment
| Forest & Biodiversity
A peek into how the local people connect with the flora and fauna in the largest estuarine island of Goa
Climate EduXchange - 2016 - 2017
August 1, 2016
| Environment
| Climate Change
The focus of the Climate EduXchange, Phase 8 (2016-17) is based on the National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) launched by the Governmnet of India in 2015, which aims at imparting basic ICT skills to children studying in schools and ensure access to information, knowledge, and skills through the use of digital technologies. The project will impart ICT trainings under two different components, namely Digital Literacy and Environment Education for two different levels of school students from schools run by the Government and also by NGOs.
Ericulture for upliftment of socio-economic condition of rural women in tribal villages of Assam
July 27, 2016
| Sustainable Agriculture
| Environment
Eri silkworm (Philosamia ricini) has been practiced in Assam from time immemorial in the rural areas particularly by the tribal section. Ericulture is a household activity practiced mainly for protein rich pupae, a delicacy for the tribal. Eri is a multivoltine silk spun from open-ended cocoons and is the only completely domesticated non-mulberry variety. Ericulture is an agro-based cottage industry and can be used as a tool for upliftment of rural economy and therefore called as poor man¿s business. The total Eri silk production for the year 2013-14 for the state of Assam was 2612.70 MT.
Hotwiring microbial communities for enhanced unconventional gas production
July 10, 2016
| Microbes
| Environment
In this project our objective is to exploit recent discoveries in direct electron transfer to methanogenic Archaea and the role of thermophilic temperatures on biological methane production from coal to enhance production rates and yield. The significance of direct electron transfer to methanogenic microbes lies in the departure from a longstanding (>60yo) dogma that molecular hydrogen (or formate) has to serve as an intermediate electron carrier from fermentative metabolism to methanogenic metabolism.