The Center for Sustainable Technologies (CST) built up as Center for ASTRA (Application of Science and Technology for Rural Areas) in 1974, is IISc's between disciplinary research and innovation advancement place for giving reasonable answers for host of worldwide concerns, basically managing vitality, structures and condition. The Center's emphasis is on elevating Sustainable Technologies customized to suit neighborhood states of asset accessibility and home.

Effective cases of CST's various mediations are, Energy Efficient Wood Burning Devices, Biomethanation, Biomass Gasification, Alternative Building Technologies, Green Buildings and BiPV, Water Purification and Defluoridation, Sanitation, Sustainable Biomass for Energy, Forestry, Bioenergy and Climate Change, and Environmental Quality Assurance-Impact Studies. The spread and effect of advances radiating from CST in the course of recent decades have been important; 1.5 million country family units are utilizing the ASTRA wood consuming gadgets for their cooking needs, selection of biomass gasifiers for town zap and businesses is bringing about an every day reserve funds of around 30 tons of non-renewable energy source, thirty-five biomethanation plants are changing over bio-squander into helpful biogas and around 12,000 structures (counting 5000 in seismic tremor influenced areas of Gujarat) have been constructed utilizing exchange building materials created at CST. Advancements for defluoridation of water and proper torrent safe sanitation frameworks planned and created by CST is picking up prominence in the nation. Significant steps have likewise been accomplished in outlining approaches for environmental change at the national and worldwide level.

CST (some time ago ASTRA), having dependably guzzled the maxim that the world is a worldwide town, is currently progressively advancing itself to address cutting edge vitality and condition needs. Remembering ebb and flow national and worldwide issues of concern, the Center has begun examine programs in MSc (Engg) and PhD covering a large group of present day issues, for example, changing over mechanical squanders into building items, fitting muds to hold radioactive squanders, manageable environments/human settlements, atmosphere responsive design and arranging, building-comfort contemplates in tropical districts, tidal wave and seismic tremor safe houses and sanitation for close waterfront settlements, desalination and bioremediation of waste-water and decentralized vitality arranging and displaying.

Various courses are conducted depending upon the requirements

For Details on the following courses contact the respective professors as mentioned below:

ST202 - Renewable Energy - Technology, Economics and Environment
N H Ravindranath , S Dasappa and P Balachandra

ST203 - Technology and Sustainable Development
Monto Mani

ST204 - Energy and Environment Lab
S Dasappa, Monto Mani, HN Chanakya, and HI Somashekar

ST201 - Modern Bio-energy Technology
S Dasappa and HN Chanakya

ST206 - Environmental and Natural Resources Management
TV Ramachandra

ST210 - Principles and Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing
TV Ramachandra

Officials

Chairman
Venkatarama Reddy B V PhD (IISc)
Professor

Faculty

Chanakya H N PhD (UAS)
Chief Research Scientist (Biogas)

Dasappa S PhD (IISc)
Associate Professor (Gasifiers)

Lakshminarayana Rao PhD (McGill University)
Assistant Professor
(Plasma Technology, Waste to Energy)

Monto Mani PhD (IIT/M)
Associate Professor
(Sustainable Architecture/Habitats, Design)

Punit Singh PhD (Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant Professor
(Turbo-machinery, Renewable Energy)

Ravindranath N H PhD (IIT/B)
Professor (Forestry & Other subjects)

Somashekar H I M Sc Ag (UAS)
Technical Officer Gr. III (Gasifiers,Stoves,Driers)

Venkata Krishnappa D M Sc (BU)
Scientific Assistant

Associate Faculty

Balachandra P PhD
Principal Research Scientist (Energy & Policy Studies)

Jayant Modak M PhD (Purdue University)
Professor (Bioleaching and Biochemcial reactors)

Nanjunda Rao K S PhD (IISc)
Principal Research Scientist
(Composites and Masonry structures)

Ramachandra T V Ph.D (IISc)
Senior Scientific Officer

Sivakumar babu G L PhD (IISc)
Professor (Solid Waste Management)

Sudhakar Rao M Ph.D. (Poona University)
Professor (Water Quality & Waste Management)

Venkatarama Reddy B V PhD (IISc)
Professor
(Alternative building technology, Housing)

Administration

Geethanjali T

Contact:

Center for Sustainable Technologies,
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560012,
Karnataka, INDIA.
Tel: +91 (80) 2293 2447, 2293 2762, 2293 3015
Fax: +91 (80) 2360 0683, 2360 0085
Email: chairman@astra.iisc.ernet.in