L-R: Dr BVR Mohan Reddy, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Hyderabad; Prof BS Murty, Director, IIT Hyderabad; Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister for Education Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, GoI; Mahesh Kolli, Founder, President & Joint MD, Greenko; Anil Chalamalasetty, Founder, CEO & MD, Greenko and OP Bhatt, Chairman Greenko
HYDERABAD: Greenko, energy transition and industrial decarbonization solutions company, and IIT Hyderabad signed an MoU to launch India's first dedicated school for sustainable science and technology. The Greenko School of Sustainable Science and Technology (GSSST) aims to plug the rising research, education, and skills gaps caused by the imperatives of sustainable development.
Greenko is working in consultation with the Ministry of Education, AICTE, NCERT, and NCVET to ensure GSSST both conforms to and advances learning in sustainable science and technology. Congratulating IIT Hyderabad on the occasion, Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of Education, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, said, "India cannot just be a consuming nation. We must innovate and establish our own models for achieving self-sufficiency as well as for furthering global welfare. In the 21st century, technology is available to ease our job, and NEP 2020 has given us the liberty to take advantage of local language with available technology."
Anil Chalamalasetty, Founder, CEO & MD, Greenko Group, said, "The Government of India, under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, has positioned India as a leader globally in climate change mitigation and energy transition as set out in the Paris Climate Accords. The commitment to build the technologies and skills in India for our country to attain leadership in sustainability and energy transition led to this opportunity with IITH."
GSSST will open towards the end of this year and, by June 2023, will induct students for MTech and PhD in sustainable science and technology, followed by BTech programmes. The experience gained at GSSST will be replicated at other IITs, engineering colleges, and later at polytechnics and schools. This joint initiative demonstrates the national educational establishment's endorsement of Greenko's pioneering initiative to accelerate R&D and contextualize education and skills for sustainable development.
The school will be advancing knowledge in these key thrust areas including climate change mitigation, AI and space technology, energy transition and industrial transformation, circular and regenerative economy, zeroC processes, fuels, materials, and products, industrial ecology and net zero clusters.
