Contamination, Pollution and Quality

Saharanpur (9 Oct) :  History was created in Saharanpur once again.  Today, Paondhoi had thousands of visitors (e.g.

Modification of Section 16

The document provides the details of the Act in terms of :

The document provides the details of the steps to be undertaken to implement the Act and includes:

This document provides information on the rules underlying the section 63 of the Water (prevention and control of pollution) act and includes:

• Title and the definition of terms underlying the rules
• Information on the terms and conditions of service of the members of the central board and of committees of the central board
• Power and duties of the chairman and the member secretary and appointment of officers and employees
• Rules in case of temperory association of persons with the central board
• Rules for the appointment of a consultant engineer
• Budget of the central board
• Annual report of the central board
• Account of the central board
• Report of the central board analyst
• Rules for the establishment and functioning of the central water laboratory
• Powers and functions of the central board in relation to the union territories

This Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Watershed Management is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. 

The National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) is a premier CSIR laboratory. On September 7th, NEERI held a brainstorming workshop entitled "Interface between water technology developers and other stakeholders”.  The purpose of the workshop was to engage better with other players involved with bringing scientific innovation in the water sector to reach large numbers of people who need the innovations.  Attendees included scientists from many CSIR laboratories involved with water research, senior central government officials from the Rural Water Supply Department and the Dept of Science and Technology, State government officials, representatives from leading corporate houses including Eureka Forbes and Unilever and NGOs.