my first post

Hello everyone!

I happen to be the first one to write something about Bhojpur and our amazing team. To begin with, we are all engineering students from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur and we've been working on sustainable development for the past one year.

Our purpose is to improve rural life by thoughtful application of our engineering skills. Said and done, we have adopted Bhojpur as the model village, which is situated 70kms off Jaipur city, towards Ajmer.

The village is a typical Indian village with plenty of mud houses, although there are a few exceptions. The living conditions in the village are rather tragic, especially when it comes to availability of clean drinking water. So our aim is to cleanse the village of this problem by means of Rain Water Harvesting, which will be the core component of our project.

Our team in itself, is a pretty good mix of students from different branches. I for instance, am from the Department of Chemical Engineering. And by the way, I'm Suvha Lama from Darjeeling, West Bengal.

You can say that our source of inspiration for taking up this noble task is a group of seniors who've passed out last year. They're former winners of the prestigious Mondialogo Engineering Awards as well.

In my next post, I'll enlighten you all about the specific problems the village faces, our observations on the same and whatever progress we've made till date.

Cheers!