MRIIRS turns Nodal Centre for ICT Based Short Term Course on “Water Resource Management”

Department of Civil Engineering – FET, MRIIRS was earmarked to be a Nodal Centre for ICT based short term course on “Water Resource Management” organized by NITTTR Chandigarh in association with Indian Green Building Council-Chandigarh Chapter and Indian Green Building Council Student Chapter – NITTTR, Chandigarh. The session was aimed to discuss innovative water conservation methods and generate research ideas for sustainable development, conservation and reuse of water resources.

65+ attendees from several reputed Institutions attended the session with Dr. Sunita Bansal, HOD – Civil along with other departmental faculty. 

Learnings for the day were facilitated by eminent speakers like Dr. S.C. Jain – Former Dean & Chairman, Punjab University – Chandigarh, Er. M.C. Jindal – Regional Director, Central Ground Water Board Chandigarh, Dr Sanjay Sharma – NITTTR Chandigarh, Dr. Hariharan Chandrashekhar – Alt Tech Foundations, Mary Conley Eggert – Global Water Works US, Professor S.M. Yadav – SVNIT Surat, Mr R.M. Bedi and his team from Bentley Inc., Dr. Reet Tiwari and Dr. Sagar Chavan, both from IIT Ropar.

Various topics covered during the course include Water Resources Management: Need, Concept & Considerations, Groundwater Management, India Towards Zero Wastewater, Smart Water Management, Human Engineering of Solutions Adoptions towards Water Conservation, Rainwater Collection and Management from Roots, Water GEMs and Severe GEMs for Water Resource Management, Technological Innovations in Sustainable Sanitation Solutions, Remote Sensing Applications for Water Resource Management, Wastewater Management, Benchmarking of Irrigation Projects and application of Frequency Analysis in Water Resource Engineering using MATLAB.

The entire event was conducted with the support of Dr. Sanjay Sharma – NITTTR and Er. Himmi Gupta NITTTR.