IIT Kharagpur transforms steel plant s slag dumps into greenbelts in Odisha indiatoday.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatoday.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Using traditional Indian organic components and Japanese afforestation techniques researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur have transformed Odisha’s steel plants’ dumpsites into greenbelts.
A drive through the Dhenkanal region of Odisha will give one the chance to witness the vast stretches of the green canopy and vegetation developed by research team, on the industrial dumpsites.
The transformation to a greenbelt is not a natural reclamation but the “Midas touch” of the Post Mining Mine Site Restoration group of the Department of Mining Engineering of IIT Kharagpur through a project supported by Tata Steel BSL, according to the team that worked on the project.