Smart village — Meerpur Muwazarpur: Under the aegis of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Hingar Rahul Brajesh, Adarsh Kumar Mishra, Rohit Jain · 2016
Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, an ambitious project with the support of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, was launched with the intent to leverage the technological know-how developed by the premier engineering institutes of the country and apply it in the rural milieu. To this end, IIT Roorkee conducted Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRAs) in 21 villages. 5 villages were then chosen on the basis of demographic characteristics, terrain, accessibility and extent of urbanization in February, 2015. Meerpur-Muwazarpur, a village in block Bahadarabad of district Haridwar, which lies about 17 km from Roorkee, was among the five chosen. A team of 15 freshmen students led by 5 sophomores conducted a macro- and micro-level survey in the village.