Ongoing Projects
Providing support for implementing smart community pilot project in Panipat, Haryana, India during 2017-18
April 1, 2017
| Environment
| Land
NEDO is implementing a smart community pilot project in selected sub-stations of Panipat. TERI provided support to the members of consortium and NEDO for undertaking the pre-feasibility study and feasibility study. In continuation to this, TERI proposes to assist NEDO for implementing smart community pilot project in Panipat. The scope of work would include the following: Understanding the regulatory environment for smart community project: Customization of smart community equipment as per the local environment;
Organizing 5 day refresher course for IFS officers on the topic "Environment Economics and Accounting, Green GDP and Carbon Financing" during 4 - 8 September 2017
April 1, 2017
| Environment
| Climate Change
This 5 day course from 4th to 8th September will deliberate on deriving linkages between Green GDP and Environmental economics and accounting, keeping forestry sector at the center stage and will deliberate on the role of forests in providing various ecosystem services (ecological, economic, socio-cultural etc)
Metatranscriptomics driven isolation of Tea root associated bacteria and their evaluation for drought tolerance properties.
March 21, 2017
| Microbes
| Sustainable Agriculture
Plant root microbiome plays the key role in plant health maintenance during conducive as well as a stressed situation and their population dynamics (culturable and non-culturable) varies with the surrounding environment. Therefore, culturable microbial strains associated with drought tolerant plants are explored and mobilized as input to sustain other plant growth during drought situation. However, the non-culturable microbes that represent substantial proportions of total microbiome are not explored yet for their beneficial role during stress condition.
Facilitate the preparation of People’s Biodiversity Register (PBR) documentation for Chorao - Madel Village
March 10, 2017
| Environment
A PBR is a document that records status of local biodiversity, landscape, waterscape elements and relationships of various user-groups with these ¿ essentially from a (local) people¿s perspective. The preparation of a PBR for Chorao would entail the vigorous involvement of the local community members through the formation of a Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC), with support from the concerned government bodies and departments and technical expertise. The PBR is a database of traditional knowledge and intellectual property of the local rural community on biological resources.
Development of intumescent fire retardant (IFR) nano-composites for medium voltage cable sheathing applications
February 28, 2017
| Environment
In this study, polyolefinic nanocomposites of PP/EVA/EPDM, HDPE/EVA/EPDM and LLDPE/HDPE/EVA/EPDM will be developed. The APP used will be grafted with silane based POSS product to improve its hydrophobicity. Nanoclay and MWCNT will also be grafted with POSS after functionalization. These modified nanoparticles will be used along with modified APP to enhance fire retardancy properties. These additives will be optimized for both mechanical properties and fire retardancy characteristics. Compatibilizing additives will also be added to enhance interfacial adhesion.
Ethnobotanical survey for antiulcer drug
February 13, 2017
| Environment
| Microbes
| Sustainable Agriculture
This project will select the medicinal plants of traditional use on ethno-botanical survey of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh for their biological screening of anti-ulcer activity in experimental animals. This will help find possible anti-ulcer drugs from the indigenous medicinal plants of Northeast.
Assessing impact of developmental activities on the lakes of Hyderabad
January 23, 2017
| Water
| Environment
The proposed scope of work for the study includes the following:
A secondary-data-based preliminary baseline assessment of current water use practices in selected water intensive industries (viz. thermal power plants, textile, pulp and paper, and steel industries) in India.
Integrated Modelling Study of Food-Energy-Water-Food nexus in India
January 19, 2017
| Sustainable Agriculture
| Energy
| Environment
The food-energy-water nexus in India would be examined using scenario analysis using MARKAL and the integrated agricultural water use models. The work would form part of the Sustainable Growth Working Group with the NITI Aayog and other policy think tanks in India. The findings would be disseminated to key government departments.
Enzymatic degradation of antibiotics and phenolic residues waste components at low concentration in surface waters and industrial wastewater using modified membrane bioreactor
December 21, 2016
| Microbes
| Environment
The rampant usage of drugs has made their occurrence in soil, water, aquatic plants and almost whole of the world acknowledged their presence in natural and artificial systems. Municipal and industrial wastewater contains high amounts of antibiotics or other persistent molecule conjugates and metabolites, which possess high biological activity and threat to the environment and to the living organisms. A main goal of this joint bilateral project is to develop the process for the removal of antibiotics and phenolic residues from the water and wastewater.