Ongoing Projects
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.
Mass multiplication of Chironji (Buchnania lanzan) through plant tissue culture
July 4, 2016
| Sustainable Agriculture
Development of technology for mass Multiplication of selected Chironji genotypes through micropropagation and distribution to tribal beneficiary.
A People’s Biodiversity Register of Village Ghukhuyi, Zünheboto, Nagaland
July 1, 2016
| Forest & Biodiversity
| Environment
With a forest cover of 171964 sq km, the north-eastern part of India harbours a significant portion of the country's floral and faunal bounty - nearly 13,500 plant, 430 mammal and 1277 bird species, many of which are endemic to the region. An important part of the North-East is Nagaland wherein lies the Ghukhuyi village which is the centre of TERI's joint venture with the Department of Forests, Ecology, Environment and Wildlife of Nagaland to prepare a People's Biodiversity Register (PBR) for the area.