Students bag US awards for Tirupur cleanup plan

Updated on: Monday, April 20, 2009

Washington: In a proposal to combat water pollution caused due to textile units in Tirupur, India's 'knitwear capital', it has fetched a team of Indian post-graduate students of the University of Virginiaâ€™s Darden School of Business a string of awards adding up to nearly $ 50,000.

As a low-cost solution to treat and recycle the contaminated wastewater, the project named 'Clean India' suggests to use algae and sand filtration. The students say that, this method would be cheaper than the trucked-in clean water.

To initiate the newly laid proposal in Tirupur's industrial park, three of the units have signed as customers under the pay-for-use arrangement when the project goes on stream.

The Darden students behind the project include Baijnath Ramraika, Ravi Yekula and Chip Ransler, with Ganti S Murthy, an assistant professor at the Oregon State University, as the projectâ€™s technology resource person.

The project has won prizes at Darden, Wake Forest Elevator Competition, Regional Round of Walmart Better Living Business Plan Challenge and the Georgia Bowl Business Plan competition.

Everyday about 100 million litres of chemical dye-laced wastewater is flushed from the industries in Tirupur.

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Students bag US awards for Tirupur cleanup plan

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