IIT Delhi Collaborates with United Nations World Food Programme to Provide Reserach-Based Solutions

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) India collaborated with IIT Delhi to develop innovative solutions for the food safety nets of the government through operational research. The aim is to support the government to achieve food and nutrition security targets.

According to the statement of the institute, the partnership with WEP is set with an objective to use advanced analytics and operations research techniques to achieve practical solutions which include support for long term strategic planning of procurement, storage of grains, movement of food grains by agencies like FCI and creation of cost-effective supply chain network under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) at the state level.

The institute further said such initiative is especially required for states like Uttarakhand where the availability and supply of food grains is a challenge throughout the year due to various factors like terrain, limited transportation facilities and disintegrated storage spaces,

Both WEP and IIT Delhi will work closely with the state and central government throughout the research. They aim to optimise the supply chain and also analyse other operations like stocks management, harvest yields and consumption. Through research, the institutes will aim to identify challenges and come up with solutions.

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Bishow Parajuli, Country Director of World Food Programme India said that the partnership will help expertise from on-ground to implement the research and development to strengthen systems which include sustainability and accountability that will impact lives of millions of vulnerable people. He further said that they hope the collaboration will not only support states but also regions.

V Ramgopal Rao, the Director of IIT-Delhi said that the institute has strong research activities in areas like Nutrition, Operations Research, Public Systems and Policy and it works to bring an impact in society through its research and innovations which is the core vision and strategy of the institute.

He further said that the partnership is important to impact society and can result in advanced solutions for the problems of India and World. It will also help them to work closely with the government and public agencies to bring reforms in the society.

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