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IIT Roorkee to crowdsource Rs 50 lakh to clean Ganga

Mission 'Save Ganga' is one of the key projects taken up by the institute, which is situated close to the banks of Ganga. The students plan to utilise the funds collected on activities that will lead to the cleanup of the river.

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In an attempt to clean river Ganga, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee will be crowdsourcing a fund of Rs 50 lakh within a span of one year.

Mission 'Save Ganga' is one of the key projects taken up by the institute, which is situated close to the banks of Ganga. The students plan to utilise the funds collected on activities that will lead to the cleanup of the river.

Students of the institute feel that not much has been done by the government to clean the river. No positive outcome of the government's Clean Ganga Project is noticeable even around Haridwar, which is close to the institute, the student's claim. Therefore, they want to do their bit to cleanup the river.

By the end of this year, they plan to start the construction of bio-toilets along the bank of the river to prevent open defecation. This move will also help keep the river bank clean. The students also plan to conduct awareness drives around the area to sensitise people on the importance of keeping the river clean.

The project is under the 'Namami Gange' flagship programme of the central government under which the Union Cabinet had approved the action plan proposed to spend Rs 20,000 crore on cleaning the river by 2019-20. The other IITs also have been helping the government in achieving their target. The institutions including IIT Delhi, Mumbai, Kharagpur, and Kanpur have submitted their plans on how they plan to implement the project, to the government.

"We are collecting funds through crowdsourcing during our annual college fest Cognizance. Apart from this, our faculty has also agreed to collect Rs 10 lakh for the purpose. Our deadline for collecting the money is December 2017," said Sarin Khan, one of the student coordinators.

They are also conducting a robotics competition through which they will obtain a drone that might be used to map the pollution level at various places in the river.

"The drone will help us find out the most polluted areas of the river so that we can focus on them," Khan said.

The administration of IIT has also been supporting the endeavour of the students. "Our students have been extremely involved with the Save Ganga project and we are fully supportive of them," said AK Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee.

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