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OCTOBER 2016
Asian Institute of Technology
OCTOBER 2016
President Pranab Mukherjee (center) at the foundation stone laying ceremony at Ashiana, Dehradun, India.
Indian President’s ‘Rashtrapati Ashiana’ to demonstrate innovative AIT technologies
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he renovated ‘Rashtrapati Ashiana’, the historic Dehradun-based Presidential Secretariat of the Indian President will now have an AIT tag. The “Innovation Technology Demonstration Project” at the President’s Secretariat will include 12 dwelling units that will be based on technologies researched and developed at AIT. H.E. Mr. Pranab Mukherjee laid the foundation stone of the 12 dwelling units on September 27, 2016 — an event attended by AIT partners Dr. Praful R Naik,
Director and CEO of Prashak Techno Enterprises, and Dr. Siddharth Jabade. Technologies that will be the basis of the renovation include interlocking bricks developed at AIT’s Habitech Center, and two sanitation technologies (Anaerobic Buffer Reactor, and Constructed Wetland) developed under the Naturally Acceptable and Technologically Sustainable (NATS) platform at AIT. Dr. Thammarat Koottatep and Mr. Gyanendra Sthatip, along with AIT Solutions, will play a lead role in this project.
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