JUIT Becomes Part Of G20 Summit

Solan, March 23 : G20 is a group European Union and 19 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, UK and US). The G20 Summit takes place annually, under the leadership of a different or rotating Presidency. Initially, G20 Summit was focused mainly on macroeconomic issues, later it expanded its agenda to inter-alia including trade, sustainable development, health, agriculture, energy, environment, climate change, and anti-corruption. As we all know 2023 (Millets years) India got the presidency of G20, which led to many international-level events in India at different venues. On March 15 – March 17, 2023, IIT Ropar organised G20’s 2nd Working Education Group Meeting at Khalsa College, Amritsar. Among all the entries from Pan India for the expo, only a few got selected to present their work in front of G20 delegates,

It’s a proud moment for Himachal Pradesh and Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, that our sustainable research work on “Pine needles’ conversion to biofuel for rural empowerment” got selected there. Directorate of Research Innovation and Development (DRID) team at JUIT is working on many environmental issues in Himachal Pradesh including Pine Pine needles to biobriquettes. At this event, our JUIT’s Vice Chancellor Prof. (Dr.) Rajendra Kumar Sharma was invited with the team members working on the project Prof. Dr. Ashish Kumar and Anup Kumar Sinha (Project Associate). At the event we got a chance to interact with national and international level delegates. The team (Anup, Dr. Ashish from civil Engineering, Dr. Sudhir from Biotechnology and Bioinformatics) is working on this project and developed a cost-effective biobriquetting technology from Pine needles with calorific value, burning rate, and ignition time near to hard wood coal.