IIT-kharagpur has planned to launch multi-institutional and multi-crore ‘Saraswati-2’ project for the rejuvenation and treatment of water.
- The project will be funded by the European Union and the Government of India’s Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Biotechnology.
Objectives
- The objective of Saraswati 2.0 is to identify the best available as well as affordable technologies for wastewater treatment and provide solutions to the challenges of water use in both rural and urban areas.
- The project builds on the Saraswati project of 2012-17. It was jointly funded by the European Commission and DST, Government of India.
About the Project
- The Saraswati project aimed at supporting consolidation, replication and upscaling of sustainable wastewater treatment and reuse technologies for India.
- Saraswati 2.0 has been selected under the EU-India Joint Call on Research and Innovation for Water.
- The EU, through its research and innovation programme ‘Horizon 2020’, and the Government of India will invest a total of upto Rs. 323 crore on various water-related projects, which have an average duration of 4 years.
- Under the project, three plants to be set up at IIT Kharagpur for treated water Three plants -an anaerobic digester with bio-electro chemical filter, another with photoheterotropic bioreactor and a plant for ultrasonic treatment of sludge – will be set up at IIT Kharagpur.
- IIT Kharagpur’s partners for Saraswati 2.0 project will be managing the project together with its lead European partner, BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna).
