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About TERI
Creating Inno vative Solution s for a Sustainable Future
INTRO:
TERI was formally established in 1974 with the purpose of tackling and dealing with the immense and acuteproblems that mankind is likely to face within in the years ahead
on account of the gradual depletion of the earth's finite energy resources which are largely non-renewable andon account of the existing methods of their use which are polluting
Over the years the Institute has developed a wider interpretation of this core purpose and its application.Consequently, TERI has created an environment that is enabling, dynamic and inspiring for the development of solutions to global problems in the fields of energy, environment and current patterns of development, which arelargely unsustainable. The Institute has grown substantially over the years, particularly, since it launched its own
research activities and established a base in New Delhi, its registered headquarters. The central element of TERI’s philosophy has been its reliance on entrepreneurial skills to create benefits for society through thedevelopment and dissemination of intellectual property. The strength of the Institute lies in not only identifyingand articulating intellectual challenges straddling a number of disciplines of knowledge but also in mountingresearch, training and demonstration projects leading to development of specific problem-based advancedtechnologies that help carry benefits to society at large.
The Institute’s growth has been evolutionary, driven by a vision of the future and rooted in challenges loomingtoday, based on an approach that looks beyond the present and across the globe. TERI has, therefore, grown toestablish a presence not only in different corners and regions of India but is perhaps the only developing countryinstitution to have established a presence in North America and Europe and on the Asian continent in Japan,Malaysia and the Gulf.
The global presence and reach attained by TERI are not only substantiated by its presence in different parts of
the world, but also in terms of the wide geographical relevance of its activities. Symbolic of this fact is the annualDelhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS), a major event focusing on sustainable development, the pursuitof the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and assessment of worldwide progress in these critical areas.DSDS attracts the most prominent thinkers and practitioners in a range of fields that impinge on development.Since development worldwide is moving towards an architecture based on partnerships, the leaders whoparticipate in DSDS come from government, business and industry, multilateral and bilateral organizations,research and academia and civil society. Encouraged by the success of DSDS, TERI has now established theWorld Sustainable Development Forum (WSDF), which is guided by the patronage of a group of select worldleaders. WSDF would extend the experience of each DSDS to other parts of the world and carry out carefulevaluation and monitoring of developments worldwide, particularly in meeting the MDGs.
The Institute established the TERI University in 1998. Initially set-up as the TERI School of Advanced Studies, itreceived the status of a deemed university in 1999. The University is a unique institution of higher learningexclusively for programmes leading to PhD and Masters level degrees. Its uniqueness lies in the wealth of
research carried out within TERI as well as by its faculty and students making it a genuinely research basedUniversity.
TERI now has staff strength of over 900 dedicated employees, drawn from a range of disciplines and experience,supported by infrastructure and facilities, which are world class and distinctively state-of-the-art. The Institutecontinues to grow in size, spread and intensity of work undertaken.
In this world of increasing globalization and buoyed by optimism generated by the success of the Indian economyTERI moves forward to meet the challenges of the future through the pursuit of excellence embedded in itsvisionary charter.
STAFF:
Staff
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TERI has over 900 employees drawn from diverse disciplines and highly specialized fields such as engineering,economics, natural and social science, biotechnology, architecture, public policy, information science andadministration.
Grouping of the staff into Areas and broad-based divisions is TERI's way of encouraging exchange of ideas andinformation across subject boundaries and forming interdisciplinary linkages.
Each Areas activities are coordinated by an Area Convenor, areas with similar focus and activities are groupedinto divisions and each Division is headed by a Director/ Associate Director.
Dr R K PachauriDirector-General
Dr Leena Srivastava, Hony. Executive Director (Operations), TERI and Vice Chancellor, TERI UniversityDr Vibha Dhawan, Executive Director (Planning & Coordination)Dr Maria Ligia Noronha, Executive Director (Research Coordination)
Directors
Dr Alok Adholeya, Director, Biotechnology and Bioresources Division
Mr P K Agarwal, Director, Human Resources Division
Mr Anshuman, Associate Director, Water Resources Division
Ms Suruchi Bhadwal, Associate Director, Earth Sciences and Climate Change Division
Mr P R Dasgupta, Director, Industrial Energy Efficiency Division, Bangalore
Dr Prodipto Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, Earth Science and Climate Change Division
Ms Sangeeta Gupta, Director, Information Technology and Services Division
Mr Shahid Hasan, Associate Director, Knowledge Management Division
Mr M M Joshi, Director, Technology Dissemination & Enterprise Development Division
Mr Sanjai Joshi, Associate Director, Support Services & Protocol Division
Mr Amit Kumar , Director, Energy Environment Technology Development Division
Dr Banwari Lal, Director, Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology Division
Ms Mili Majumdar , Director, Sustainable Habitat Division
Dr Ritu Mathur , Associate Director, Green Growth and Development Division
Mr Pradeep Kumar , Associate Director, Building Energy Systems
Dr Maria Ligia Noronha, Director, Resources, Regulation and Global Security Division
Mr Debajit Palit, Associate Director, Social Transformation Division
Dr Anjali Parasnis, Associate Director, Western Regional Centre, Mumbai
Mr G R Narasimha Rao, Associate Director, Industrial Energy Efficiency, Bangalore
Mr Ibrahim H Rehman, Director, Social Transformation Division
Mr Dipankar Saharia, Associate Director, Environmental & Industrial Biotechnology Division, Guwahati
Ms Ranjana Saikia, Director, Educating Youth for Sustainable Development
Dr Rajiv Seth, Registrar, TERI University
Mr Girish Sethi, Director, Industrial Energy Efficiency Division
Dr Annapurna Vancheswaran, Director, Sustainable Development Outreach Division
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Mr Dinesh Varma, Director, Support Services & Protocol Division
Distinguished Fellows
Mr Ashok Basu
Mr R K Batra
Mr C Dasgupta
Mr Nitin Desai
Dr Prodipto Ghosh
Mr M M Joshi
Mr Shri Prakash
Mr K Ramanathan
Prof. S L Rao
Mr Ardhendu Sen
Mr Prabir Sengupta
Mr Ajay Shankar
Mr S Sundar
Mr P R Dasgupta
LOCATION:
TERI Worldwide
TERI strives to sustain a global vision to encompass the universal nature of problems that human society facestoday and may face in the future. Its activities move from formulating local- and national-level strategies todeveloping global solutions. Over the years, TERI's global affiliates and centers have developed strongcollaborations with like-minded institutions and important organizations to further the cause of sustainabledevelopment.
Headquarters
TERI's headquarter is located within the India Habitat Centre complex, one of thebest and well known addresses in Delhi. It has a 7-storey building, with a total floor space of 5500 square metres. This building houses first-rate laboratory facilitiesparticularly for advanced research in biotechnology, microbiology, tissue culture,indoor air pollution, water quality, and chemical technology. It also housesvideoconferencing facility, state-of-the art library, two conference halls, and severalmeeting rooms.
How to reach here
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Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003, INDIATel. (+91 11) 2468 2100 and 2468 2111Fax (+91 11) 2468 2144 and 2468 2145E-mail [email protected]
GREEN BUILDINGS:
TERI's Green Buildings: Leading by Example
TERI fulfills its mandate of sustainable development by advocating the concept of green buildings, which register minimal impact on the environment. In practicing what it preaches, TERI has constructed its buildings, in Gurgaon,Bangalore and Mukteshwar, along these lines. Resource- and energy-efficient, these habitats are exemplaryconstructs demonstrating the sustainable implementation of green practices. TERI has also introduced GRIHA, arating system to adjudge the 'greenness' of buildings, in order to popularise this initiative. The TERI buildingsinclude:
RETREAT (Resource Efficient TERI Retreat for Environmental Awareness and Training), Gurgaon
Himalayan Centre, Mukteshwar
Southern Regional Centre, Bangalore
The Energy and Resources Institute, commonly known as TERI (formerly Tata Energy
Research Institute), established in 1974, is a research institute based in New Delhi focusing its
research activities in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable development. According
to Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the International Relations Program,
University of Pennsylvania, TERI was ranked 20 in the list of top global think tanks on
environment[1] and 16 in top global think tanks on science and technology.
Contents
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1 Introduction
2 Origins
3 Locations
4 Staff
5 Activities
6 Awards and achievements
7 GRIHA
8 Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
9 Activities in Pakistan
10 TERI University
11 See also
12 References
13 External links
Introduction
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TERI is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute focused on energy, environment and
sustainable development, devoted to efficient and sustainable use of natural resources.
Origins
Bombay House the head office of Tata Group from where TERI started operations
The origins of TERI lie in Mithapur , a remote town in Gujarat, where a TATA engineer, Darbari
Seth, was concerned about the enormous quantities of energy his factory spent on desalination.[2]
He proposed the idea of a research institute to tackle the depletion of natural resources and
energy scarcity.[3] J. R. D. Tata, chairman of the TATA Group, liked the idea and accepted the
proposal. TERI was set up with a modest corpus of 35 million rupees.[4] On the invitation of the
then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, TERI registered in Delhi in 1974 as the Tata Energy Research
Institute.[4] As the scope of its activities widened over a period of time, it was renamed The
Energy and Resources Institute in 2003.[5]
Locations
TERI began operations in Mumbai in Bombay House, headquarters of the house of Tatas. In 1984,it moved to Delhi. After being shunted from one premise to another, including the India
International Centre, TERI moved to the India Habitat Centre. Today TERI has a global presence with
many centers both within India and abroad.
Headquarters at the India Habitat Center , New Delhi.[6]
Southern Regional Centre, Bangalore
Western Regional Centre, Goa
North - Eastern Regional Centre, Guwahati
Himalayan Centre, Mukteshwar
TERI Mumbai, Navi Mumbai
TERI Japan, Tokyo TERI North America, Washington D.C
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TERI Europe, London
TERI South East Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
In October 2011, Princess Máxima of the Netherlands opened the European headquarters of TERI in
Utrecht.[7]
Staff
Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director General
TERI has about 1300 employees, with research professionals from various disciplines pertaining to issues of environment and energy. The Institute's Director General Rajendra K.
Pachauri is also the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.[8] TERI's Executive Director is Dr Leena Srivastava, who was recognized
by the Prime Minister of the French Republic and received the Knight of the Order of
Academic Palms in 2007 (Ordre national du Mérite).
[9]
Activities
TERI is a leading Indian non government organization (NGO), a global think tank conducting
research and analysis in the genres of energy and environment, is a university with a vast focus,
which ranges from micro organisms to global climate change and everything in between. In its
38 years of existence, TERI has completed more than 2600 projects and has about 20 divisions.
Awards and achievements
Bio technologists at TERI developed a new technique for the revival of sick oil wells called
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Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR). It has helped in recovering 5% to 15% of crude oil
from the wells that have been declared ̀ sick' after secondary treatment with chemicals that
recovers 20% oil.[10]
TERI Southern Regional Center in Bangalore was awarded Best Energy Auditor and Best
Performance Improvement from the Petroleum Conservation Research Association two
consecutive years in 2003 and 2004.[11]
TERI was awarded The Economic Times Corporate Citizen of the Year in 2008-09.
[12]
In 2006, TERI developed a technology to mass-produce a consortium of mycorrhiza bio-
fertiliser. The technology is the first of its kind globally. The bio-fertiliser has applications in
agriculture, horticulture, economic plantations, forestry and bio-fuels, and enhances nutrition
and yield increment up to 50% and curtails chemical fertiliser inputs by 5%.[13]
TERI in 2003, developed a non-pathogenic pesticide-munching bacteria in the form of a
powder that can biodegrade endosulfan, a widely used pesticide.[14]
While visiting TERI RETREAT in 2004, Prince Charles lauded energy efficient technologies at
TERI.[15]
TERI initiated the Lighting A Billion Lives Campaign in 2007 to light energy starving rural
villages.[16]
By March 2005, TERI's micropropagation technology park had supplied over 14 million plants
raised by tissue culture.
TERI developed Oilzapper, a mix of bacteria that destroys crude oil sludge. More than 30,000
tonnes of soil contaminated with oily sludge have been treated, and more than 5000 hectares
of farmland contaminated with oil spills have been reclaimed.[17]
TERI designed a cylindrical furnace for refining metals called Cupola which has enabled
workers in small scale metal foundries literally breathe easy. The Cupola brought down the
amount of fine soot and dust in the surrounding air from an average of 2600 micrograms per
cubic meter to about 50, and which reduced air borne sulphur dioxide from 300 micrograms
per cubic meter to about 40.
With the aim to create a common platform for local communities of Supi in Uttarakhand, TERIlaunched 'Kumaon vani', a community radio service on March 11, 2010. Uttarakhand Governor
Margaret Alva inaugurated the community radio station, the first in the state. The 'Kumaon Vani'
aims to air programmes on environment, agriculture, culture, weather and education in the
local language and with the active participation of the communities. The radio station covers a
radius of 10 km reaching out to almost 2000 locals around Mukhteshwar .[18]
GRIHA
TERI conceived GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment), the national rating
system for green buildings in India.[19] It was developed jointly with the Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy to the Indian Government. It is a green building design evaluation system
and is suitable for all kinds of buildings in different climatic zones of the country.
For more information visit http://www.grihaindia.org
Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
The Institute is closely related to the annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) and the
pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The DSDS attracts worldwide thinkers and
practitioners, coming from governments, business and industries, multilateral and bilateral
organizations, research and academia and civil societies. Following this success, TERI hasestablished the World Sustainable Development Forum (WSDF), which aims to emulate the DSDS,
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applying its talks and research worldwide, to monitor worldwide industrial development
associated environment and sustainability analysis, and to provide interesting solutions to local
industries and governments, to meet the MDGs.
Activities in PakistanWith the aim of creating a 'consensus in Pakistan in favour of a cross-border clean energy
movement while at the same time cementing the civil, political and cultural ties between India
and Pakistan' TERI in 2012, launched a series of rural energy initiatives in Pakistan.[20] A mini-
grid of solar power was set in Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s birthplace, village Gah in
Chakwal district of Pakistan’s Punjab. The minigrid supplied power to 51 families in the village
and water heaters of three mosques.[21]
In October 2012, TERI launched the clean energy “Lighting a Million Lives” (LaML)
campaign in Pakistan in association with Pakistan institutions — LEAD, the Alternative Energy
Development Board (AEDB) and the Buksh Foundation[22]
TERI University
TERI University was established on August 19, 1998, and was recognized by the University
Grants Commission (UGC) as a deemed-to-be University in 1999.[23][24] Set-up as the TERI
School of Advanced Studies in 1998, the institution was subsequently renamed TERI
University.[25] TERI University is the first of its kind in India to dedicate itself to the study of
environment, energy and natural sciences for sustainable development.[26]
History
The origins of TERI lie in Mithapur, in a remote corner of north-western India, where a visionary chemical engineer was concerned about the enormous quantities of energy his factory spent on desalination – fresh potable water isscarce in those salty plains – and on making caustic soda from salt. It was Mr Darbari Seth of Tata Chemicals,whose appreciation of the importance of energy as a resource, who thought of an institute ‘to tackle and deal withthe immense and acute problems that mankind is likely to face within the years ahead (a) on account of the gradualdepletion of the earth’s finite energy resources which are largely non -renewable and (b) on account of the existingmethods of their use which are polluting’. The idea instantly appealed to Mr J R D Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, a great visionary himself and a staunch supporter of scientific research - and TERI was duly registered inDelhi in 1974 as the Tata Energy Research Institute. As the scope of our activities widened over time, the institutewas renamed as The Energy and Resources Institute in 2003.
TERI began operations in Mumbai in Bombay House, headquarters of the house of Tatas, India’s most respected
industrial house. In the first decade, the approach was to fund deserving research projects on renewable energy.TERI also set up a documentation and information centre, which began publishing Indian Energy Abstracts, and asmall field station in Pondicherry to undertake research on renewable energy. However, in 1984, it moved to Delhiand began its own research. The first externally funded project was to develop an energy model for India. For adecade after that, TERI operated out of rented premises, in keeping with the institute’s conscious policy thatactivities must precede brick and mortar, before moving into our its premises, the Darbari Seth Block, within theIndia Habitat Centre complex off Lodhi Road.