SPPU to Launch M.Sc Course in Water Management & Sanitation

From the academic session of 2018, SPPU (Savitribai Phule Pune University) will launch India’s first integrated Post Graduate course in Water Management and Sanitation. For introducing this course, SPPU has signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Unity Knowledge and UNESCO IHE Delft Institute of Water Education (Netherlands) on October 30, 2017.

IHE, which specialises in water management, has designed the syllabi of the course, and its faculty will teach modules during the course. Department of Environment Sciences of SPPU will launch run the course, which will begin from the next academic session.

Vice Chancellor of SPPU, Dr. Nitin Karmalkar pointed that poor stormwater management, improper water distribution and erratic monsoons are the major reasons for urban flooding. The objective of the course is to produce better planners and policymakers. Currently, there is a dearth of the workforce in this field, and the course will play a vital role in meeting these needs.

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M.Sc degree course in Integrated Urban Water Management is the newly launched courses, and the varsity will enrol only 30 students for the academic session 2018-19. Depending on the response to the course, the varsity will take steps to increase the intake. All the science and engineering graduates across different streams are eligible to register for this course.

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An official associated with SPPU revealed that the varsity would also offer short module-based online courses apart from two-year regular postgraduate courses. The first online course that will be rolled out by the varsity is Faecal Sludge Management, and the registrations for the course will begin from the second week of November, he added.