Projects
Enhancing private sector participation in infrastructure development at the state level
June 22, 2003 to April 30, 2004
| Completed Project
Preparation of Annual GEO Statement for Asia for the Year 2003
June 15, 2003 to December 15, 2003
| Completed Project
Education tool and technologies for efficient water use using virtual application sites (ED-WAVE)
June 1, 2003 to December 31, 2005
| Completed Project
The goal is to develop a sustainable framework for training on technologies for conservation, reclamation, and refuse of natural resources. As a model example, this project will focus on improving water efficiency by exposing the target groups to real-life applications through virtual industrial and municipal environments created using IT-based tools.
Energy efficiency of plant administrative building at NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation), Simhadri
June 1, 2003 to July 31, 2004
| Completed Project
Demand supply scenario of power in Northern Region in India
May 12, 2003 to January 13, 2004
| Completed Project
Preparation of a database of energy-efficient and energy conservation products, systems, etc., available in industrial, commercial, domestic, and agricultural sub-sectors
May 1, 2003 to January 31, 2005
| Completed Project
Monitoring and managing ecosystems for improved health and human wellbeing in mining regions - Phase III
April 15, 2003 to March 31, 2007
| Completed Project
Minerals development, while increasing employment and income in mining and related activity, does create serious environmental damage and can undermine other socio-economic development opportunities of the local communities. This project seeks to address both the environmental damage and the socio-economic constraints created by mining in the study area.
Understanding environment-health linkages in rehabilitation plans: the issue of fruit trees for community plantations
April 15, 2003 to April 15, 2006
| Completed Project
Rehabilitation of mined out areas is a major issue in sustainable development of mining. Revegetation is one of the processes used for rehabilitation. Increasingly, as attention is focused on beneficial land uses, there is a trend in adopting and advocating revegetation which is useful to the local community.
Biotechnological interventions for propagation and improvement of apple rootstocks
April 1, 2003 to October 29, 2008
| Completed Project
The main objectives are (1) scale-up of protocol for large-scale clonal multiplication, (2) field transfer and demonstration, (3) characterization of homogeneity by molecular tools, (4) graft compatibility.