ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT RAGHAV ANANTHARAMAN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras | Chennai, India | Advancing SDG 11, SDG 11 & UNAI 9
" The Millennium Fellowship gives me a platform to raise my concerns and work towards planning and sustainability. Through this program, I can put forward my solutions and actually work on implementation, affecting the entire population of Chennai city. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Flood-Free Madras
Project Flood-Free Madras is a student-led effort at IIT Madras to reduce flooding on campus and, in the long run, in monsoon-prone cities like Chennai. The project focuses on simple, community-driven actions such as awareness workshops on rainwater seepage, regular volunteer drives to clear campus drains, and practical ideas like better pavements to help water soak into the ground. By cutting waterlogging in key campus areas and protecting both people and wildlife during heavy rains, the project advances SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation).
About the Millennium Fellow
Raghav Anantharaman is an undergrad student from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, pursuing Materials Engineering. He's a bright and competitive student, who cares about infrastructure and planning related issues. He lives in Chennai, India (a coastal city) where there is a major flooding problem due to lack of good quality drainage systems in the city. Personally affected by the 2015 Chennai floods, where his house was damaged and flooded, he aims to improve the flooding and drainage system, starting from his undergrad college, and expanding into the entire city with tie ups with the government.
