IIT Kanpur collaborates with Australian University to clean Ganga

The collaboration between the two institutes aims at transforming the river cleanliness programme into a community-centric project for the rejuvenation of Ganga. The field site of the research will be Kanpur and Varanasi.

IIT Kanpur collaborates with Australian University to clean Ganga

A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and Australia-based La Trobe University has collaborated to study and mitigate the pollution in the river Ganga. The collaboration between the two institutes aims at transforming the river cleanliness programme into a community-centric project for the rejuvenation of Ganga. The field site of the research will be Kanpur and Varanasi.

At present, in the first phase, the study aims to provide policy-driven and evidence-based solutions for managing the water quality of the river. During the two-year research, the team will create a novel database to help the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) to make more informed decisions enabled by advances in behavioural and decision science.

Under the project, Anjali Yadav, a PhD student at IIT Kanpur, is studying social norms, practices and traditional knowledge systems to investigate how their dynamic and complex interplay influences people’s collective behaviour and decision making when it comes to managing our crucial ecological and social assets, such as the Ganga, as per the released by the institute.

“The findings can lead the way to the identification of best practices, drive social actions and pitch for sustainable religious practices for better implementation of NMCG,” Anjali said.

“Water pollution in the Ganga has remained unchecked. This has forced experts to revisit their top-down and technocratic outlook toward cleaning the river and rethink why the severe water pollution persists even in the face of wider public support and the government’s effort,” said Prof Pradip Swarnakar, supervising the project at the institute.

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