CSIR-IITR to organise international seminar on Environmental Pollution: Challenges and Strategies

TNN Bureau. Updated: 7/30/2017 1:13:23 PM Health and Lifestyle

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR) along with Nagar Rajbhasha Karyavan Samiti here will organise an international seminar on “Environmental Pollution: Challenges and Strategies” from October 11 to 13 to create awareness towards “Clean India and Healthy India” campaign. Director IITR, Professor Alok Dhawan, told UNI that the institution has organised many national and international science seminars on topics related to the commonman.

He said that renowned scientists not only from India but also from various parts of the world will attend this seminar. Prof Dhawan told us that scientists across the world regularly send their letters and show their concern about environmental pollution and keep us informed about the circumstances. All the countries are concerned about the deteriorating condition of our environment and its pollution and the Paris pact on climate change is a fine example of that, he said. “We should understand that government’s efforts alone are not sufficient to tackle the problem of pollution rather social awareness and contribution from everyone is equally important,” he said.

Prof Dhawan said that many renowned scientists around the world will join the seminar through video conferencing. “This will save their precious time as they can use video calling app like Skype to deliver their lectures”, he added. In order to promote the usage of Hindi language in an elite community like scientists, IITR organises seminars and conferences at regular intervals. “All lectures in the seminar will be in Hindi. Even scientists of Indian origin and settled abroad will present their papers in Hindi”, said the professor. Prof Dhawan told us that ‘Environmental Pollution and Human Health’, ‘Food Security and Better Nutrition’, ‘Energy from waste materials’, ‘Air pollution and remedies’, ‘Availability of Clean water’, Development and future of continuous energy’, ‘Waste management techniques’, ‘Recycling and management of e-waste and plastic’, ‘Techniques and equipments of pollution control’ and ‘Side effects of climate change’ will be the topics of seminar.

CSIR-IITR is the only institute of India in the field of Toxicology which is working with a motto of ‘Safety to Environment and Health and Service to Industry’ to address problems critical to human health and environment. The institution has its important role in Indian government’s projects Namami Gange, Clean India, Healthy India, Skilled India, Smart City, Digital India and Make in India.


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