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PROGRESS REPORT ON ONGOING PROJECTS / PROGRAMMES As on August 2011
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KARNATAKA STATE SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE (KSSDI)
The KSSDI project was sanctioned by the Department of Science & Technology (DST) Government of India (GOI) and Government of Karnataka (GOK) in April 2007. Objectives: To develop a web based Geo Portal to acquire process, store, distribute and improve the utilization of geo spatial data (sharing of geo spatial data through internet) for planners, decision makers and public. Data clearing house which would be a gateway of spatial data being generated by various agencies in the State. Progress: The complete Karnataka Geo Portal is developed using the ERDAS Apollo Software, an OGC compliant with facilities to share the vector and raster datasets through WMS, WFS and WRS web services along with the solutions and products from IBM for server hardware, storage, backup and retrieval systems, CISCO for the Networking components and Oracle for RDBMS requirements respectively. It is a centralised single window access mechanism for all spatial data acquired by various agencies of the state. As per the requirements of the Geoportal, a state-of-the-art data centre has been established as per the specification listed in the RFP. All the required components are delivered and installed in the Council. The Council has also installed 2 MBPS Internet Lease Line connectivity from BSNL under this project. All activities towards the establishment of the Data Centre Setup have been completed. The Karnataka Geo-Portal is expected to work without any operational difficulty with the current configuration. Portal developments based on functional, non-functional and usability of the portal is in the final stage. The Council is planning to conduct stake holder conference to formulate spatial data policy for the State. The Beta version of the Karnataka Geoportal has been released by Prof. P. Balaram, Chairman, Executive Committee of the Karnataka State Council. The KSSDI portal has passed preliminary stage of development and has been released to users during October, 2009 for portal functionality testing. The release allowed the testing of the portal to undergo usability testing with selected users who provided feedback to the project team. Identified malfunctions were rectified. The Council officially launched Karnataka GeoPortal during December, 2009 at the 9th Annual event of National Spatial Data Infrastructure by the Honorable Minister of State for Science and Technology, Government of India, Sri Prithviraj Chavan. The project team is working on improving the usability, performance, security aspects of the portal. The project staffs are being trained to handle the data, security, updation as well as spatial data centre. The training for the project staff both at district and state level are planned and is in progress.
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NATURAL RESOURCES DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Background:
Under a joint
project of Natural Resources Data Management System (NRDMS) of
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, and
the Government of Karnataka, Karnataka State Council for
Science and Technology (KSCST), Bangalore has developed
district level GIS databases to support the process of Local
Level Planning at the levels of district, taluk and village.
Over the past one and a half decade all the districts of
Karnataka State have been covered under NRDMS program. Each
District Database contains spatial and attribute data sets
useful in local level planning processes in the sectors of
Natural Resources, Demography, Agro-economy, Socio-economy and
Infrastructure facilities. Respective Zilla Panchayaths and
Line Departments have been depending upon the databases for
meeting their data requirements. These district data centres
are updating database regularly based on the availability of
data and requirements of the administration.
Activities of district
NRDMS centre activities during 2009-10
District level
user interaction workshops have been conducted on "Web based
Geographic Information System" to create awareness among end
user in the utility of geospatial database through Internet.
During these workshops the utility of the GeoPortal was
demonstrated to the end users for planning and management of
resources. The Council conducted district level workshops in
twenty four districts of the State. The activities of the
NRDMS program and the web based GeoPortal evoked good response
among the district officials. Several requests were received
during the workshop to take up activities utilizing geospatial
technologies to developmental programs and also to provide a
detailed technical / project reports to plan the resources and
infrastructure.
The NRDMS
Centres have prepared Technical reports containing basic
information and arrangements made in Bye-Elections - 2005 as
well as Gram Panchayath elections held during 2009-10. The
work involved generating Legislative Assembly / Gram Panchayath constituency wise location and jurisdiction of
polling stations with numbers and type of polling booths along
with route maps to carry polling personnel and materials as
required by election authorities, Election Commission and
Observers.
Preparation of
Status report on rainfall, crops, ground water table in
comparison with previous years and drinking water facilities.
Detailed project
report as per the requirement of Sericulture department on
mulberry cultivation and projected area of its cultivation by
the year 2020.
Prepared Project
Implementation Programme report under Total Sanitation
Campaign project of Government of India. The report included
necessary inputs for TSC program by incorporating drinking
water and sanitation facilities of villages selected under
this programme.
District centres
have been continuously supporting both central and state
supported development programs like NREGA, Backward Region
Grant Fund (BRGF), Suvarna Gramodaya program, Integrated
Wastelands Development Programme (IWDP), National Watershed
Development Programme in Rain fed Area (NWDPRA) and NABARD
assisted watershed program etc.
Crime mapping of
several City Municipalities for based on intensity of crime,
availability of police stations etc.
Development of
GIS based district rural road plan for link roads. In several
districts the habitations are wide spread, and these
habitations are connected to major roads by roads called link
roads. This study indicated the current status of various
categories of roads, their connectivity to habitations and
other related matters regarding the road network of especially
coastal districts. Nearly 30% of the road finance goes for
road development in these districts. This project is mainly
carried out to focus mainly on rural road network
connectivity.
Postal Code
mapping with region and limits of Post office for several
North Karnataka districts.
Technical
support to district planning in resource mapping using high
resolution satellite imageries, GPS etc., specifically in
Gulbarga, Dakshina Kannada, Gadag, Tumkur and Chitradurga.
NRDMS centres
are providing analysed spatial information to support district
planning activities mainly in the areas of education, health,
infrastructure, watersheds based on local specific problems.
Preparation of
safer zone for Stone crushing in several districts of the
state for Mines and Geology department based on the guidelines
provided by the district authorities.
Water quality
and quantity analysis for the State has been taken up and the
Council has completed the generation of spatial maps for few
selected districts under Jal Nirmal program.
Digital Tourism
ATLAS for the state of Karnataka showing tourist information
like religious place / water falls / hill stations / adventure
sport / national parks / bird sanctuary / monuments / forts /
reservoirs etc., has been completed.
NRDMS centres
are providing analysed spatial information to support district
planning activities mainly in the areas of education, health,
infrastructure, watersheds based on local specific problems
etc.
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RECOVERY OF METALS AND DISPOSAL
Introduction: Electronic waste (E-waste) comprises of waste electronic goods which are not fit for their original intended use. These range from computers, cellular phones, televisions, personal stereos, household appliances like refrigerators, air conditioners etc. These e-wastes are either processed for recovery (of some heavy / precious metals) or sent for disposal. Disposal of E-waste consists of breaking components like CRTs, de-soldering PCBs, shredding of plastics, burning of PCBs in open air and chemical stripping etc. But these activities are done in a crude and unscientific manner and, hence, they not only have potential occupational hazards (handling done with bare hands many times) and also potential environmental hazards. Objectives: In view of these ever increasing problems, KSCST has taken this project to evolve safe and environment friendly methods / processes, with the following specific objectives:
To identify the appropriate technological solutions required for –
Development of system approach for effective recovery / disposal of e-waste in a safe and environmentally compatible manner. Summary of Progress: General: Manpower: Two project staff have been employed (in February 2009). Equipment: All the sanctioned equipments have been procured, namely a) Two orbital shakers, b) Microcontroller based flame photometer, c) microprocessor based pH system, d) pulsed power supply, e) copper hollow cathode lamp, f) gold hollow cathode lamp and g) pyrolytically coated furnace tubes have been purchased. Of these items (e), (f) and (g) are imported. E-waste materials required for experimentation (printed circuit boards, cables, lithium battery cells etc) have been collected from local e-waste recycler, M/s Ash Recyclers, with the help of Karnataka Pollution Control Board. Experimental work has been initiated on two aspects - (a) Recovery of copper from cables and (b) Recovery / disposal of lithium ion batteries.
Recovery of copper from cables: For recovery of copper from cables, bacterial leaching trials were conducted using unsheathed copper wire. The bacteria, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, with Silverman and Lundgren solution as medium was used for trial.
Preliminary experiments indicated that complete dissolution of copper could be achieved in the sample inoculated with bacteria in 11 days compared to about 40% of copper dissolution in the control sample.
Recovery / Disposal of Lithium Ion Batteries: Collection of various types of lithium ion batteries and study of unit components and structure of the cells – has been done. The following types of lithium ion cell were considered for experimentation - (a) Li-ion battery (Button Cell, Non reversible), (b) Li-polymer battery (Rectangular cells used in Mobiles) and (c) Li-polymer battery (Cylindrical cells used in computers). Each type of battery cell was manually opened and analysed for its constituents. A special tool is being designed to break open the cell into its components which will be safer to operate/use.
Experiments to determine the lithium (wt %) were done on the powder collected from the button cell. Using Flame photometer, the calibration and testing for lithium ions was done in various concentration ranges and also experiments to optimize the response of the instrument for various concentration of Li ranging from 2, 5, 10, 20 (in %) etc were performed. Experiments to extract lithium from the electrolyte were carried out using various extractants such as HCl, H2SO4, CH3COOH, NaOH, NaHCO3, with different concentrations. Among the various extractants tried, 0.1N H2SO4, extracted maximum lithium of 20.5% at room temp, followed by 0.1 N HCl and 0.1 N CH3COOH.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY PROGRAMMES
To mark the National Science Day-2010, using main theme of this years's National Science Day this year "Gender Equity : Science and Technology for Sustainable Development", Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology organized various programmes for Bruhath Bangalore Mahanagara Palike High School Students. This was to promote active involvement of students and teachers to improve their scientific temper and to encourage the students to ask questions in different areas of science to get their doubts cleared. The National Science Day-2010 was organized on 2nd March 2010 at J. N. Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The following activities were undertaken on the occasion of National Science Day programme. Activities: Essay Competition and Poster Competition: A total of 57 selected Essays and Posters were received from various High Schools. As suggested by DST-GOI, the theme of competition this year was "Gender Equity : Science and Technology for Sustainable Development". The essay and poster competitions were conducted in respective high schools during second and third week of February and were evaluated by teachers themselves. In each of the schools, after due evaluation, best essays and posters were selected for awards/ prizes. A total of 57 best Essays and Posters were selected for the prizes. On-the-Spot painting competition: On-the-spot painting competition for two age groups - higher primary school (5th standard to 7th standard) and high school (8th standard to 10th standard). The event was organized on 14th February 2010 at the Indian Institute Campus. About 250 Students from various primary and high schools in Bangalore city participated in the event. The theme and topics will be same as those of other competitions. The event was inaugurated by Prof. P. Balaram, Director, Indian Institute of Science. The paintings were evaluated by experts and a total of 20 paintings were selected for first, second, third and consolation prizes in each group. Celebration of National Science Day - 2010: National Science Day - 2010 was celebrated on 2nd March 2010 at J. N. Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Over 1250 students and accompanying teachers from various BBMP high schools and other local high schools in Bangalore participated in the programme. These students included the entire prize winners from essay, poster and on-the-spot painting competitions held earlier. An exhibition of all prize winning posters and paintings had been organized in the foyer of the auditorium. Prof. Indumathi Rao, Hon. Convener, Multimedia Group, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific research, Jakkur was inaugurated the NSD Celebrations. Prof. M. Seetharam Bhat, Chairman, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science was the Guest of Honor. Prof. M. S. Mohan Kumar, Secretary, KSCST presided over the function. In the morning session, two popular science lectures were organized. The first lecture was on "Fun with Chemistry" - by Prof. Uday Maitra, Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science and second lecture was on "Fascinating Quantum World" by Prof Prof. H. R. Krishna Murthy, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science. This was followed by third lecture in the afternoon by Dr. Asha Benakappa, Pediatrician, Vanivilasa Children Hospital, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore. National Science Day Celebrations concluded with the Valedictory Function. Sri A. R. Shiva Kumar, Executive Secretary I/c, KSCST, welcomed the guests and gave introduction of the activities of KSCST, with special reference to National Science Day Celebrations which KSCST has been organizing since many years. The programme was presided over by Prof. M. S. Mohan Kumar, Secretary, KSCST. The Chief Guests were Sri Ashok Kumar C. Manoli, IAS, Principal Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, IT and BT, Government of Karnataka and Sri R. Mohan Das, Registrar, Indian Institute of Science. The prizes for all the three competitions - essay, poster and on-the-spot - were distributed to students by the dignitaries on the dias. Dr. S. G. S. Swamy, Fellow, KSCST proposed the vote of thanks. National Council for Science and Technology, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike were sponsored and catalyzed the programme.
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF
Principal Investigator
Budget (DST, GOI)
Duration The project work of design and development of paper bag making machine is being carried out in the Department of aerospace engineering, Indian Institute of Science. Paper bag making machine for 2 different types of bags are being developed. 1. Simple bag making machine 2. Box bottom type bag After the demonstration of folding mechanism, the automatic gumming mechanism has been designed and it is under testing. The thickness of the gum, flow of the gum, the speed of gumming process is under test. Box bottom bag has the most complex type of mechanism to integrate since it has long sequence of cycle to follow to prepare one bag. This design is challenging not only in folding but also in gumming process. The design synthesis has been done. The machine has been fabricated and is put under test for its folding mechanism. The gumming mechanism for this machine is being fabricated and to be tested for its working. The third design for the paper bag making machines to make flat bottom bag has been made and it is under fabrication. This type of bag has a simple sequence of cycle to follow to make the entire bag. This bag requires a single fold-single gumming sequence. It has double drive mechanism which reduces the cost of the machine. The preliminary CADD drawings have been made to fabricate the machine. The preliminary mechanism-design for actuation of cams and folds has been done. Fabrication of this third machine is under progress. Future work 1. Fabrication of a third prototype to demonstrate the folding process and gumming process 2. Testing of machines
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"WASH"
- ECO WATER LITERACY CAMPAIGN 2009 - KARNATAKA
Principal Investigator
Budget (DST, GOI)
Duration
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India has sanctioned a project titled "Networking for "WASH" - Eco Water Literacy Campaign 2009 (Karnataka)" to conduct activities and create awareness about "Water, Sanitation and Hygiene" in the State. KSCST organized one day workshop on "Rainwater Harvesting, Groundwater recharge and Municipal Solid Waste Management for IISc Staff on 9th July 2009 at Choksi Hall, IISc, Bangalore. KSCST in collaboration with Environmental Support Group (ESG) organized three workshops on the following topics.
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Principal Investigator
Budget (DST, GOI)
Duration
Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology conducted a study / survey under the title "Identification of Strategies for mapping of S&T needs in the State of Karnataka". This project was funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi (DST, GOI). This study was conducted throughout the State to identify location - specific problems and to prepare an inventory of such problems requiring science and technology interventions. The study contains data on sectors namely, agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, sericulture, animal husbandry, irrigation, health and hygiene, drinking water, traditional crafts, environment and ecology, non-conventional energy and natural disasters and hazards. This report has been submitted to the DST, GOI. Further, KSCST is intended to provide a common platform by way of organizing two-day workshops in each of these sectors where officials from relevant government department, NGO's and academicians would be invited to participate. The mutual interaction during the workshop would help administrators in understanding of the problems at various levels, to prioritize depending on the severity of problems and take remedial measures through S&T interventions. In this background, the following workshops will be organized in different parts of Karnataka during April - June 2010. KSCST has discussed with the concerned Government Departments for the co-operation and support for better participation of their personnel in these workshops.
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