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Apr
19
2022
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By Poulami Mondal
IIT Kharagpur inks two MoUs with AARDO & RFRF

IIT Kharagpur inks two MoUs with AARDO & RFRF

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IIT Kharagpur signed two MoUs (Memorandum of Understanding) with African-Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) and Research for Resurgence Foundation (RFRF) on strategic collaboration and mutual cooperation in research, sharing of knowledge & resources. AARDO will cooperate with IIT KGP to achieve common objectives in the field of agriculture and rural development through technological innovations, solutions, interventions and capacity enhancement to benefit and strengthen rural societies by establishing cordial ties, strengthening cooperation and initiating an association between the two organizations for the benefit of rural communities in Africa and Asia. With RFRF, it is a strong academic collaboration by mutually undertaking…
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Mar
19
2021
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
IIT Kharagpur Spreading Health Awareness through Live Folk Art Performance

IIT Kharagpur Spreading Health Awareness through Live Folk Art Performance

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Albert Einstein had once said, “If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.” But the challenge of scientists, health workers and the administrative machinery, involved in communicating health awareness and promoting the adoption of new health habits, to large segments of people with varying levels of education and exposure remains an arduous task. In a diverse country like India which has close to 65% of the population living in a rural or semi-urban setup, 30% population devoid of literacy in addition to significant school drop-out rates, rural health communication, particularly in the pandemic situation, demanded novel…
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Feb
04
2021
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By Poulami Mondal
Gymkhana Celebrates National Girl Child Day Celebration

Gymkhana Celebrates National Girl Child Day Celebration

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Contributed by Priyanka Singh and Saumyata Khandelwal IIT Kharagpur is known for a great many things - be the alumni across the globe leading in the industry, academia, entrepreneurship including those in India in even more diverse fields from public services to creative fields, or the R&D output of the Institute bringing transformation from industry to society - but beyond this first in the IIT system has another face, unobtrusive but telling, in the area of public outreach and social impact. One such mark of the Institute can be spotted at the Gopali Youth Welfare Society (GYWS), an NGO run…
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Aug
29
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
IIT KGP’s Gandhian Call

IIT KGP’s Gandhian Call

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IIT Kharagpur's month-long celebration of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary ended yesterday, August 28, 2020. The international e-symposia which started on August 8, the anniversary of the launch of the Quit India Movement in 1942, could not have a more befitting close than the day marking the anniversary of the historic civil rights march at Washington DC in 1963 and the iconic speech of Martin Luther King Jr. - "I have a dream". With India journeying through the pandemic, global economic turmoil, trade war with China and the 'Atma Nirbhar Bharat' mantra of Govt. of India, we Indians are embracing…
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Aug
12
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
IIT-MIT Experts Explore Community Living in Gandhian Way

IIT-MIT Experts Explore Community Living in Gandhian Way

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IIT-MIT Symposium on Mahatma Gandhi traces the roots of community networks in socio-economy and urban planning IIT Kharagpur organized the first event in the series of e-Symposia on Gandhian Thoughts and Philosophy on August 8, 2020. Organized in association with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Gandhi Forum, India, the event was graced by academic luminaries from both institutions and Gandhian experts. The talks were themed around two concepts, ‘Sarvodaya’ - universal upliftment or progress for all, and ‘Swavalamban’ - the quest for self-reliance. Watch Webinar The symposium was chaired by Director, IIT Kharagpur, Prof. Virendra Tewari. He spoke about…
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Aug
07
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
International Symposia on Mahatma Gandhi

International Symposia on Mahatma Gandhi

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IIT Kharagpur brings Global Academia to Retrospect on Gandhian Thoughts and Philosophy India Today Hindustan Times Times of India Navbharat Times CNBC TV18 Indian Express Edex Live Deccan Herald Outlook NDTV            The Week  IIT Kharagpur is organizing an international e-symposia in association with top global universities to commemorate the completion of the 150th Birth Anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi. Academics from universities in the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Gandhian experts from India including professors from IIT Kharagpur will deliberate on ‘Gandhian Thoughts and Philosophy’ through webinars spanning over select days in August…
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Jul
12
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Transforming Rural Economies

Transforming Rural Economies

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COVID-19 has given a clarion call for a technology-enabled world, more so in the context of the Indian rural sector which has always stayed several steps behind the urban way of living. The slow progress could be attributed to not just lack of financial resources but also towards weak communication of functional knowledge, for a large population lacking literacy (M: 80.9%, F: 64.6%), and reliance on western technologies failing to cater to the requirements of the rural population of India. Researchers at IIT Kharagpur have come forward to bridge this gap by rolling out farming technologies as well as non-farming…
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May
06
2020
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By Chirosree Basu
Chipping in

Chipping in

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Students of IIT Kharagpur working with the Gopali Youth Welfare Society pool in their resources to rush both essential goods and protective gear to the underprivileged in Gopali and neighbouring gram panchayats Hindustan Times,  Indian Express,  The Telegraph,  Business Insider,  Outlook, NDTV,  India Today,  Yahoo News, Gadgets Now,  Republic The fight against Covid-19 is an unequal war, and no one understands that better than the students of IIT Kharagpur. Several of them associated with the Gopali Youth Welfare Society, an NGO run by IIT Kharagpur students and faculty members with the support of locals, have come together to raise funds to assist around 2000 families…
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Feb
20
2020
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By Poulami Mondal
Reaching Out to Rural Community

Reaching Out to Rural Community

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IIT Kharagpur Reaches out to Village Youth at the Agri Food Expo 2020 for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in Rural Technologies with contributions from Guru Sanjeev Kumar The Dept. of Agriculture & Food Engineering organized the Agri Food Expo 2020 during February 14-16, 2020, under the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan programme of the Government of India. A Workshop on Technologies for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship was conducted wherein 300 participants from West Bengal and neighbouring states were trained. The workshop was primarily targeted towards unemployed rural youth who at least have a college degree and a zeal to undertake livelihood projects.…
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Feb
06
2020
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By Chirosree Basu
Outlining a heritagescape

Outlining a heritagescape

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  A joint workshop at IIT Kharagpur tries to take heritage conservation from yearnings for the past to a vision for a resilient future The Baluchari sari has long been accepted as a reflection of Bengal’s rich artistic heritage. Does this idea of heritage also stretch to lives of the people who make it? Would this heritage have been preserved without their role in the sustenance of this art through their generational participation in its making? Would Chhau dance, another unique heritage of Bengal, survive if the next generation of Chhau dancers do not learn the dance? When the Rajbanshis…
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