SDG 13: Climate Action

Suryamitra Skill Development Program was launched under the Prime minister's Skill India Program, in the month of June 2015. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) assigned responsibility to National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) for a country-wide launch of the prestigious Suryamitra Skill Development Program with a target to develop 50,000 youth in Solar PV installation by the year 2019 for the country. Amity University Haryana is a recognized training partner by National Institute of Solar Energy, MNRE. The University has conducted 5 batches of Suryamitra Training Program in collaboration with NISE. Thereby contributing towards policy development of MNRE. Each batch consists of 30 participates who undergo training for 3 months at AUH in Solar PV installation. They are trained in Solar Photovoltaics and electrical engineering. At the end of the training the University provides support for placement of these trainees in solar industries.

The programme will help the participants in following ways:

• to perform jobs related to Component Procurement, Site Survey, Installation, Commissioning and Operations & Maintenance
• to take positions as SPV Technicians as well as other supervisory and managerial posts in Solar PV component manufacturing organizations.
• should also be capable of taking assignments as entrepreneurs for self employment

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In April 2017, an Air Quality Monitoring Station (AQMS), first of its kind in Haryana, has been established in the campus in collaboration with Indian Instituteof Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. This versatile system, shown in the figure below, yields

24x7 high-resolution data composed of 22 parameters (PM1, PM2.5, PM10, CO, CO2, NOx, NO2, NO, NH3, SO2, O3, Benzene, Ethyl Benzene, Toluene, Xylene, Wind Speed, Wind Direction, Temperature, Humidity, Pressure and Rainfall), describing the quality of air in and around the AUH campus in Panchgaon. This emission inventory serves, in conjunction with such data from other network stations in the country, as valuable reference input to the models to predict or forecast the local and regional airquality.

Amity Installed Air Pollution Tracking Unit :

In a collaborative research effort, a global network station of NASA AERONET(AErosolRObotic NET wok) site has been successfully established in May 2017 on the roof-top of Academic Block-A of Amity University Haryana, Panchgaon-Manesar-Gurgaon for regional air quality and climate research (Figure 2). The valuable data sets (column-integrated aerosol optical depth, aerosol size distribution, aerosol refractive

index, fine-mode and coarse-mode aerosol fractions, single scattering albedo, phase function, asymmetry parameter, water vapor and current satellite and long-range transport model trajectories) from this real-time sun-sky radiometer provides understanding of almost complete characterization of aerosols over different environments. These real-time, network observations yield radiative forcing due to aerosols and various gases to the earth-atmosphere radiation balance, which plays a vital role in climate change. These datasets have also been found valuable for developing models for forecast purpose and for calibrating the satellitesensors.

A cutting-edge technology-based next generation Polar Integrating Nephelometer for atmospheric research has been installed under a Academia-Industry cooperative research program between AUH, Gurgaon and Ecotech Pty Ltd Australia (Figure 3). This world-class experimental facility hasbeen installed at Ecotech make Aurora 4000 Polar Integrating Nephelometer at AUH, Panchgaon-Manesar-Gurgaon

AUH, Gurgaon in June 2017 for carrying out the investigations on the state of the atmosphere, in terms of scattering and absorption of several types of aerosols and gaseous species prevailing in the University campus. The information content of this facility would be very valuable for (i) estimation of integrated total scattering coefficient (indicator of air quality), (ii) spectral variation of scattering coefficienttoderiveparticlesizedistribution,(iii)estimationofhorizontalvisibilityandlevelofpollution, (iv) determination of particle refractive index and composition, (v) determination of asymmetry factor, (vi) particle shape and roughness and (vii) model calibration and validation of radiation transfer through the atmosphere.