Former IIT Professor on a Fast unto Death for Ganga
Bangalore: Hundreds of students mastered the lessons on hydel projects under his tutelage and today this man of science is on a fast undo death to save Ganga. 80-year-old Professor GD Agrawal formerly served as the head the department of civil and environmental engineering at IIT-Kanpur. Hailing from a farming family in Kandhla, Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh; he completed his primary and secondary schools from local schools and graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Roorkee, which is now IIT Roorkee. It was with the Uttar Pradesh state Irrigation Department where he began his professional career. Later, he earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from theUniversity of California at Berkeley. Raised to be deeply religious and educated to be rigorously scientific, GD Agrawal embraced sanyasa and was known Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand ever since. His campaign is spear-headed by the Ganga Sewa Abhiyanam, an organization fighting to preser