Dhanbad, Nov. 28 -- A grassroots push for sustainable water management began in Parasia on Friday as IIT (ISM) Dhanbad launched two capacity-building programmes, aimed at improving community-level understanding of rainwater harvesting and wastewater treatment.

The training sessions, organised by the EIACP Programme Centre of IIT (ISM) in partnership with Jharkhand Foundation Kendra and supported by the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC), are being held at Pandar Kanari South Panchayat. The programmes will run through December 1.

Speaking at the inaugural session, Prof Alok Sinha, head of the department of environmental science & engineering, said the effort was designed to "connect scientific knowledge with local...