Inaugural meeting of Advisory Board constituted for “Dedicated Centre on Chemical and Wastes with special focus on POPs”

CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI), as Stockholm Convention Regional Centre (SCRC) on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) for Asia Region, organized an Inaugural meeting of Advisory Board constituted for “Dedicated Centre on Chemical and Wastes with special focus on POPs” at CSIR-NEERI on April 3, 2019. The meeting was organized to form a special directorate on POPs under the scheme of United Nation Environmental Program on chemical and waste. Dr. SukumarDevotta, Former Director CSIR-NEERI, Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Director, CSIR-NEERI, Mr. SudhirDeo, Chairman Technology & Energy Expert Committee, ICC & Managing Director, NOCIL,Dr. L. Ramakrishnan, Assessor of the NABET’s (Quality Council of India), Dr. Nalini Bhat,Former Advisor, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India,Prof. Dr.IndraniChandrasekharan, Former Advisor (Environment and Forests), Planning Commission and Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, GOI & Prof. & Director, AIGWES are the advisory board members for development of dedicated facility on POPs. The meeting was coordinated by Dr. A. N. Vaidya, Chief Scientist and Dr. (Mrs.) KanchanKumari, Sr. Scientist, CSIR-NEERI and the Contact Persons of SCRC.

Dr. Atul Vaidya, Chief Scientist & Head, Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Division, Dr. KanchanKumari, Sr. Scientist, Environmental Impact And Sustainability Division, Er. GajananKanade, Principal Scientist Analytical Inst. Division, Er. Sanjay Kashyap, Sr. Scientist, Analytical Inst. Division, Dr. A Ramesh Kumar, Sr. Scientist, Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Division, Dr. Kavita Gandhi, Scientist, Environmental Impact And Sustainability Division, Er. KarthikRaghunathan, Scientist, Environmental Biotechnology And Genomics Division, Dr. TanvirArfin, Scientist, Environmental Materials Division, Er. PiyushKokate, Scientist, Energy and Resource Management Division, Er. Hemant Bherwani, Scientist, Centre of Strategic Urban Management, Dr. Lakshmikanthan P, Scientist, Water Technology and Management Division, Mr. Jowin Joseph MT, Scientist, Cleaner Technology and Modelling Division were the task force member participated in the discussion with the advisory board members.

The meeting was attended and enriched by the presence of students also including Mr. Pradip Jadhao, Mr. Ankur Khare, Ms. Anshika Singh, Ms. Anuradha Awasthi and Mr. Deepak Marathe associated with CSIR-NEERI.