IIT Council's Green/Sustainable Agenda for Educational Institutions
      (Ref- MHRD letter, DO No. 1-11/2013TS-1(Sectt.) dated 05-06-2013)

•    -IITs being the premier institutions, have to play a lead role in implementing the Green / Sustainability Agenda in
      the country by adopting and implementing programmes to reduce their Carbon footprint, recycle the resources,
      adopt energy efficient measures and include sustainability issues in the teaching programme.
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•    -The Council of IITs decided that each IIT would establish a Green Office, which would carry out a Green Audit of
       its curriculum and its institutional management practices, such as energy, water, waste, construction projects,
       natural resource (forest, water etc.) and conservation of bio-diversity.
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•    -It was suggested to implement the greening agenda in a phased manner, but to be initiated at the earliest.
      The Green office could be located in the Institute’s existing department/Centre concerned with sustainable
      development/climate engineering so that technical resource support is available.
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•    -It could set up a working-group drawn from active faculty/students interested and working on this agenda to
      create a participatory, transparent process with ownership. It should also involve different department
      representatives to reflect it’s inter-disciplinary and inter dependent concerns. It should also involve external
      experts from different agencies/ offices/ other organisations engaged meaningfully and constructively with
      concerns for a green environment.
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•    Key responsibilities of Green Office:
•       -Develop green policy (vision document) and framework for the institute.
•       -Facilitate and undertake Greening initiatives.
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•    Phase 1 : Develop a baseline scenario for the institute (data and info on CO₂ emissions, water use, waste
                      generation, carbon footprint, paper use, etc.)
•    Phase 2 : Development of green technology packages (installation of SPV, wind mill, waste to energy, rain water
                      harvesting, paper recycling, etc).
•    Phase 3 : Implementation of Green Action Plan in phased manner.
•    Phase 4 : Monitoring, Reporting, Verification and Evaluation.
•    Phase 5 : Mainstreaming Green Agenda in Education and Teaching.