UN Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

UPES report · 4. Sustainable villages and neighbourhoods

4Sustainable villages and neighbourhoods

UPES works with villages, residents and city agencies to plan and build more sustainable places to live.

Impact

UPES works hand in hand with villages, residents and city agencies to make the places around it more sustainable to live in.

2villages developed as model smart villages
1,230NGO partners for community projects
16schools and communities reached by Swachhata
  • Dhalani and Koti have solar lighting, clean cooking, digital classrooms and health camps through Project Utthan.
  • UPES helped a Dehradun residents' association prepare a smart city proposal and works with Dehradun Smart City Limited.
  • Revived watermills bring clean energy and income to hill villages.
  • Model smart villages. Since 2022, Project Utthan has helped Dhalani and Koti in Dehradun district with solar lighting, clean cooking, digital classrooms and health camps.
  • A smarter neighbourhood. In 2022 UPES faculty and students helped the Jal Vayu Vihar Residents Welfare Association in Dehradun prepare a smart city proposal covering street lighting, rainwater harvesting and digital community services. UPES also works with Dehradun Smart City Limited on research, internships and knowledge exchange.
  • Clean power for hill villages. With the Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Project UK is reviving traditional watermills to generate clean energy and income in hill communities.
  • Better village schools. UPES has improved toilets, drinking water and solar power in adopted government schools.
  • Green livelihoods for women. Project Vikalp's self-help groups make pencils from recycled paper, crafts and medicinal plant products, and at the Waste-Paper Recycling Laboratory, women from indigenous communities turn campus waste paper into sheets, pencils, jewellery and stationery.
  • Students in the community. Through the Srijan Social Internship, first-year students work with NGOs on projects such as sanitation facilities and rainwater harvesting.