ENVIRONMENTAL
AWARENESS AND PUBLICATION 9.1 ACTIVITIES OF NGO CELL An NGO Cell was set up at Central Pollution Control Board during the year 1992 to coordinate the following activities.
During 2004-2005, 5 NGOs were additionally enlisted with CPCB subject to concurrence of concerned State Pollution Control Boards apart from 655 NGOs enlisted during the previous years. A rebate @50% is extended for the purchase of CPCB publications, to NGOs enlisted with CPCB and several NGOs have availed this facility during 2004-2005. Financial assistance of Rs.5000/- each was provided to 4 NGOs for organising mass awareness programmes in different parts of the country. During the reporting year (2004-2005) following training programmes were organised with the overall objective to educate NGOs in the field of environment and pollution and its control:
A regional meeting with NGOs located in different States was organised for coordination of the activities and promotion of the public participation/awareness in the pollution control programmes in the country.
Interaction has been made with NGOs of Assam, Meghalaya, Arunanchal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura and Mizoram through coordination meeting held, so far and training was provided to the NGOs from Andhara Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa, U.T. of Pondicherry and Lakshdweep, West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Sikkim and U.T. of Andman & Nicobar Island, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh (UT) with the following objectives:
The response of the NGOs was overwhelming and over 150 participants attended the above programmes.
9.2 SUPPORT TO ORGANIZATIONS IN CREATING AWARENESS ON BIO-MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT Technical/financial supports were given to Rajasthan SPCB, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and Patna University, Patna in organizing workshop during June, 2004, December, 2004 and April, 2004 respectively. 9.3 TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR NGO(s) IN SOUTH ZONESouth Zonal Office conducted a two day training programme for NGO(s) in Southern region at EMPRI, Bangalore. The training was imparted in relevant technical areas so that the technical skills of NGO(s) could be broadened. It has been observed that usually due to lack of technical knowledge NGO(s) lose the loose the court cases filed by them. The faculty for lecturers was pooled from National Law School, Bangalore, GTZ HAWA Project, BWSSB, BORDA Bangalore, MoEF, CPCB and KSPCB. 9.4 TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR NGOS IN NORTHERN ZONE Enactment of statutes on pollution control and the experience gained in implementation of the various provisions of these Acts in the past more than two decades had indicated that Govt. machinery alone can’t effectively cope-up with the task of pollution control until supported by the masses. Looking towards this aspect and as a part of mass awareness programme, CPCB is organizing training programme/ interaction meets time to time to educate/involve the NGOs. In continuation of this series, a 3 days training programme cum interaction meet of NGOs of northern states was organized at Shimla by CPCB in association with the H.P. State Environmental Protection and Pollution Control Board during Feb. 22-24, 2005. In the programme, the NGOs from various parts of northern India (Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Haryana and Punjab) and officers of H.P. PCB participated. During the programme the prominent environmental experts belonging to other government departments were also invited. This training programme included series of lectures on relevant topics of pollution control by the eminent Experts, discussion on the area specific problems, Field visits and distribution of literature on the selected topics. During the programme, the NGOs pointed out the problems associated with their areas. The major environmental problems brought to the notice of CPCB during the interaction meet are as follows-
Other problems that are common to almost all the areas include vehicular pollution problems; plastic and solid waste management problems, absence of sewerage network, noise and air pollution due to operation of DG sets particularly in Uttar Pradesh. 9.5 FINALIZATION OF THE SYLLABUS ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION The CPCB Zonal Office Lucknow was a member of the Expert Committee constituted by ` The Institute of Research, Development and Training , Govt. of U.P., Kanpur` to suggest and finalize the syllabus of `Environmental Education` for different disciplines of polytechnic college courses. This was in compliance of the directives issued by Hon. Supreme Court of India for inclusion of the `Environmental Education` in various educational programmes. The syllabus has been finalized and included in the curriculum by the government of Uttar Pradesh. 9.6 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION CPCB organized Environmental Awareness for public participation during following Exhibition/Meetings/Workshop.
9.7 DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF WATER TESTING KIT Environmental awareness plays a vital role in prevention and control of pollution in industrial as well as at community levels. Assessment of water quality in a particular water body to understand any impact of water pollution needs a laboratory facility, which is not possible to have it in everywhere. Keeping this fact in view, the Central Pollution Control Board has developed a Water Testing Kit (WTK) to assess the water quality of surface, ground and potable water bodies in field condition. The kit designed and developed by a team of scientists of the Board is intended During the year 2004-05, about 50 Water Testing kits were distributed to various NGOs, schools, and others, under the mass awareness programme. It is planned to distribute around 150 water Testing kits during 2005-06 9.8 CREATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA BANK In order to retrieve the updated information on various environmental aspects quickly, Environmental Data Bank (EDB) has been established at CPCB. Modules air and water quality data are made operational. On-line data entry for air quality monitored under National Air Monitoring Programme and water quality monitored under GEMS/MINARS have been started by SPCBs/UTs. The data entered by SPCBs/PCCs in the EDB will be verified centrally at CPCB before linking it to website for public viewing. 9.9 CENTRAL POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD WEBSITE The web site of CPCB has been continuously upgraded and updated. During 2004-2005, information on air & water quality and weekly, monthly and daily air quality data of major cities have been continuously updated. In addition to this, regular updation of information in registration as recyclers/reprocessors in hazardous waste management is upgraded. For the purspose of security, the website has been shifted to the san server of NIC. 9.10 ON-LINE ACCESS OF EMISSION DATA FROM OIL REFINERIES & THERMAL POWER PLANTS To make available real time emission data, generated by power plants, common hazardous waste incinerators and other major industries, to Pollution Control Authorities for timely corrective actions, a pilot project has been initiated to establish a system for transmission of real time data for emissions of SO2 and NOx to CPCB Head Quarter from online monitors located at Pragati Power Project, New Delhi. 9.11 CPCB PUBLICATIONS DURING YEAR 2004 - 2005
Other Publications : Annual Action Plan 2004-2005 Annual Report 2003-2004 Selected Quotes on Environment Hindi Publications : Vaigyanic Ewam Takniki Lekho ka Sankalan 2003 Uplabdhiya – 2003 CPCB ‘ PARIVESH Newsletters :
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