{"id":292,"date":"2017-08-04T06:43:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T06:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/campaigns\/sanitation\/?p=292"},"modified":"2017-08-04T06:44:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T06:44:59","slug":"iisc-banglore-and-kunigal-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturecenter.co.in\/campaigns\/sanitation\/iisc-banglore-and-kunigal-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"IISc Banglore and Kunigal Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started our immersion from Bangalore. We took evening bus and reached Bangalore on 11<sup>th<\/sup> July 2017 in morning. After reaching Bangalore we directly went to India Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. There we met Mr. H. I. Somashekhar who is Technical Officer at Application of Science and Technology for Rural Areas (ASTRA)\/ Centre for Sustainable Technologies, IISc Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST) established as Centre for ASTRA (Application of Science and Technology for Rural Areas) in 1974, is IISc\u2019s inter-disciplinary research and technology development centre for providing sustainable solutions to host of global concerns, primarily dealing with energy, buildings and environment. The Centre\u2019s focus is on promoting Sustainable Technologies tailored to suit local conditions of resource availability and\u00a0habitation.<\/p>\n<p>Successful examples of CST\u2019s diverse interventions are, Energy Efficient Wood Burning Devices, Biomethanation, Biomass Gasification, Alternative Building Technologies, Green Buildings and BiPV, Water Purification and Defluoridation, Sanitation, Sustainable Biomass for Energy, Forestry, Bioenergy &amp; Climate Change, and Environmental Quality Assurance-Impact Studies.<\/p>\n<p>He shared his insights on sanitation, waste management and waste to value. He told us about Rammed Earth Model of toilets which they developed in IISc. In rammed earth model they use moulds for rapid construction of sanitation facilities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-293 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/campaigns\/sanitation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Kunigal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venturecenter.co.in\/campaigns\/sanitation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Kunigal.png 795w, https:\/\/venturecenter.co.in\/campaigns\/sanitation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Kunigal-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/venturecenter.co.in\/campaigns\/sanitation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Kunigal-768x377.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After meeting with Mr. H.I. Somashekhar, we visited Kunigal to see rammed earth sanitation facilities. Most of the toilets are in good condition but we saw some toilets are being used as store room by the villagers. We also interacted with villagers and some primary school kids and teachers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-294 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.venturecenter.co.in\/campaigns\/sanitation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170711_193349_020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venturecenter.co.in\/campaigns\/sanitation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170711_193349_020.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/venturecenter.co.in\/campaigns\/sanitation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170711_193349_020-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/venturecenter.co.in\/campaigns\/sanitation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170711_193349_020-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/venturecenter.co.in\/campaigns\/sanitation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170711_193349_020-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong> &#8211; Pramod Bhurji, BIRAC SIIP Fellow at Venture Center, Pune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started our immersion from Bangalore. We took evening bus and reached Bangalore on 11th July 2017 in morning. After reaching Bangalore we directly went to India Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. There we met Mr. H. I. 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