Renewable energy test centre in Haryana

The department of science and technology of the state government has offered financial assistance on Rs 1 crore for the setting up of a renewable energy test centre at Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal.
HS Chahal, vice-chancellor, informed the centre would have various laboratories like energy efficiency testing lab, solar photo voltaic testing lab and solar thermal testing lab. "It will be a unique centre in North India which will provide testing facilities for recently developed renewable energy appliances," he said, congratulating the centre chairman, Dr SK Singh, on this achievement of the University Centre of Excellence for Energy and Environment Studies.
Under this project, he said, financial assistance for the staff would be provided for three years and after that the university might charge testing fee and also raise resources by running various sponsored short-term capacity building courses in the area of energy efficiency and renewable energy, ECBC, green architect, repair and maintenance etc.
The VC also informed that the state renewable energy department, Haryana Renewable Energy Development Authority (HAREDA), Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, power utilities, and the department of architecture would help generate resources to conduct courses on short-term capacity building and also to train manpower in the area of renewable energy conservation.
Chahal disclosed that it had been decided to open four other centers of excellence which would cover areas identified as pertinent to present day and future needs of the country. The centre of excellence in highway safety would have academic programs, training facilities, research consultancy, motivational campaigns and a live traffic park to promote road safety education. "A trauma centre is being planned on NH-1 at Hasanpur village whose panchayat has already resolved to transfer land for use by the university to set up this centre," he added.
A centre for estate management offering courses like master in landscape design and planning is also to be set up soon, he said and added that a centre for community development was currently working on projects based on providing medical care, plant seedling, education and training in waste management and wastewater management. He also disclosed that the centre for business incubation was planned to play a nodal role in providing manpower both upstream and downstream the industry.

BS Malik ....from the pages of TRIBUNE newspaper