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CSR News
IIT KGP Wins Excellence Award for CSR Project
IIT Kharagpur has been awarded Excellence Award by National Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation for efficient implementation of clean energy in several backward villages through CSR funding. Prof Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya, Deputy Director received the award on behalf of the Institute.
Prof B C Meikap, faculty member at the Department of Chemical Engineering, was the key person for the successful implementation. Funded by National Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation under their CSR program, he set up fifteen bio-gas plants in the village Bhemua, 10 No. Gram Panchayat, in the vicinity of IIT Kharagpur in 2017.
Prof. Meikap said “ This Bio-Gas plant may motivate the rural people as Bio-Gas has significant potential to supply sustainable renewable clean energy for cooking purpose to villages in India from bio-degradable wastes. Initiative of NBCFDC will encourage other organisations to come forward for construction of Bio-Gas plants in villages through their CSR program”.