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IIT KGP researchers find increasing atmospheric pollution in rural India

Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur have found increasing atmospheric pollution in rural India using Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) measurements from satellites. The researchers found that air pollution is not typically an urban phenomenon but can affect the environment in rural pockets also. They conducted an analysis of the rural air quality to assess the extent of air pollution by measurements of NO2 through satellite imaging. The analysis exposes increasing trends (0.050.441015molec./cm2/yr) of NO2 in the rural regions of India, the institute said in a statement on Wednesday. The statement said a team of Prof Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath and Research Scholar Mansi Pathak of Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) of IIT Kharagpur analysed the significant impact of urban pollution on the air quality of rural India by differentiating the pollution in two zones - rural and urban - and assessing the extent of air pollution in rural India. Th

Updated On : 22 Feb 2023 | 3:49 PM IST

IIT-Kharagpur delivers new software for welding defect detection to GRSE

IIT-Kharagpur has handed over to Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) a new software that it developed to detect defects in welding from the radiography images taken of an object, a spokesperson of the institute said. Radiography testing is carried out to ascertain material integrity of welds, castings, piping and other machined parts. Doctoral Scholar Avishek Mukherjee, under the supervision of the chairperson of the institute's 'Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology' (CoEAMT), Surjya K Pal, developed the software 'iWeld', employing artificial intelligence, the spokesperson said on Saturday. The software, tested over a large number of samples at GRSE, was found to provide results that were 93.18 per cent accurate, he said. It was last week handed over to GRSE, which functions under the ministry of defence, the spokesperson said. iWeld is likely to replace the need of skilled weld supervisors in near future, he added.

Updated On : 08 Jan 2023 | 6:02 PM IST

IIT Kharagpur's first phase of placement nears end with over 1,600 offers

IIT-Kharagpur concluded its first phase of 2021-22 placement session in the second week of December, with over 1,600 job offers and 900-plus internship opportunities, a statement issued by the institute said. The season had begun with more than 500 pre-placement offers (PPO), which soon jumped to 1000-plus offers on the second day, "a milestone across all IITs", the statement said on Saturday. The institute recorded 48 offers in the CTC range of Rs 50 lakh to Rs 2.64 crore. Over 45 plus offers came from international companies, the statement said. This year, five foreign students also secured jobs at the session. More than 300 companies participated in the first phase across various sectors, including software, analytics, consulting, core engineering companies, banking and high-frequency trading. Companies that recruited students in the just-concluded session are Airbus, Accenture Japan, Da Vinci Derivatives, Excel, Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Squarepoint Capital, N K Securities

Updated On : 18 Dec 2022 | 10:10 AM IST

IIT-K gets 1,300 placement offers, receives highest package of Rs 2.68 cr

IIT Kharagpur has received over 1300 placement offers this year, the institute said in a statement on Tuesday. This year, the institute also accomplished a new landmark of receiving the fastest 1000 offers within day two. IIT Kharagpur said it is the only IIT to receive the highest package offer of Rs 2.68 crore on the first day of placement including 760 total offers in the Campus Placement 2022-23. A total of 45 international offers - from Japan (28), Taiwan (9), the US (3), Singapore (2) and others(3) have been bagged by IIT KGPians, a spokesperson of the institute said. The Institute has received 10 big-ticket offers ranging from Rs 1 crore to Rs 2.65 crore - both from domestic and international companies across the sectors including analytics, software, finance-banking, supply-chain-logistic, consulting, core-engineering, high-frequency trading, tech profile, product development, etc. Among many high-valued domestic offers, two are close to Rs 1 crore. Chairman CDC Prof. A.

Updated On : 06 Dec 2022 | 11:52 PM IST

Significant drop in SO2 levels in India in last decade: IIT KGP study

There has been a significant drop in Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) levels in India in the last decade as compared to the previous three decades, a study conducted by IIT Kharagpur has found. The reduction in emission and concentration of SO2 has been due to environmental regulation and the adoption of effective control technologies such as 'scrubber' and 'flue gas desulphurisation', the study conducted by a team of researchers from the Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) of the institute stated. The study represents temporal changes in SO2 concentrations across India in the last four decades (1980-2020), an institute spokesperson said. While thermal power plants contributed 51 per cent to SO2 concentration, the construction sector's share was 29 per cent, as per the estimate during that period, the study noted. The temporal analyses reveal that SO2 concentrations in India increased between 1980 and 2010 due to coal burning and the lack of novel technology to ...

Updated On : 20 Sep 2022 | 2:23 PM IST

India needs to become superpower in IP, says PM's adviser Amit Khare

Amit Khare, adviser to the Prime Minister, has said people have to be creators of knowledge and not borrowers as the country aspires to become a superpower in Intellectual Property (IP). At the 72nd foundation day of IIT Kharagpur on Thursday, Khare stressed the need for linking our past knowledge with the future, saying institutions like IITs have a role to play in it. As we are a 100-year- old civilization, we have past knowledge and can develop it and test it empirically with the help of institutions like IITs, Khare said. On the need for the country to become a superpower in IP, Khare said " we are an IT superpower but we need to be a superpower in IP because knowledge is power. We cannot borrow technologies and indigenize them, we need institutions like Nalanda and Vikramshila. We have to be a creator of that knowledge. Pointing out that a multidisciplinary approach is essential for the creation of knowledge, Khare said new frontiers of knowledge are emerging due to the ...