1.0 INTRODUCTION
The environmental management, pollution abatement and control activities require
essential build up of systematic knowledge in multidisciplinary areas through
research and development.
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) as per the provisions in The Water
(Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, and The Air (Prevention and
Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 is required to carryout and sponsor investigations
and research relating to problems of water and air pollution and prevention,
control or abatement of water and air pollution. CPCB is also required to provide
technical assistance and guidance to the State Boards, which are required to
evolve economical and reliable methods of treatment of sewage and trade effluents
taking into account the environmental characteristics of the country.
CPCB in discharging these statutory functions over the past three decades has
taken up a number of research and development projects. Several of these have
been successfully completed, while many others are under progress. Outlines
of some of these projects are presented in the present newsletter. The projects
have been executed directly by the scientists and engineers of the Board or
in collaboration with leading Research and Development Institutions in the country
or by funding the projects to be executed solely by reputed institutions. A
few projects have been undertaken with the active international collaboration
and assistance from Governments of Netherlands, Federal Republic of Germany
and Canada.
