Smart Laboratory on Clean Rivers in Varanasi

About this project

The objective of the development cooperation is to support the agreed initiative on Smart Laboratory on Clean Rivers in Varanasi under the Green Strategic Partnership between Denmark and India and broadly includes; • Creation of a platform between government authorities, knowledge institutions, technology providers and citizens for knowledge sharing and co-creation to achieve clean river water • Bringing the global solutions on current challenges in the field of clean river water and conduct research and development to fit in real environment through Living Lab approach to make them scalable and economically attractive. • Supporting NMCG in achieving its vision by focusing on small rivers. • Developing the repository of all collected knowledge and technologies, which can be shared through various initiatives like River Cities Alliance/Global River Cities Alliance to perform rejuvenation work on other small rivers or tributaries in India and in GRCA member countries. The main outcomes of the SLCR will be successful demonstration of well proven Danish and global (including local) solutions in the local context, which have a sound business model and can be up-scaled to other small rivers/tributaries.

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 6Clean Water and Sanitation

Published by

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark · Government

Countries

India

Sectors

Water resources conservation (including data collection)I.4. Water supply and sanitation

Focus

Environment · Also contributes

Funded by

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

Accountable

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)

Published by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 3 Nov 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-3-1-289040-37097.

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