State of India\'s Pollution

Contents Foreword 1 Introduction to India?s pollution 2 Water quality monitoring 3 National air quality monitoring programme 4 Municipal solid waste management 5 Ambient air quality monitoring 6 Pollution related cases in different courts in India 7 Pollution control implementation 8 Guidelines for transportation of hazardous wastes 9 Pollution abatement Bibliography IndexThe Government of India has established the Central Pollution Control Board CPCB with a view to monitoring and controlling pollution as a statutory organisation constituted in September 1974 under the water Prevention and Control of Pollution Act 1974The CPCB was entrusted with the powers and functions under the air Prevention and Control of Pollution Act 1981 It serves as a field formation and also provides technical services to the ministry of Environment and Forests of the Provisions of the Environment Protection Act 1986 Principal functions of the CPCB as spelt out in the water Prevention and Control of Pollution Act 1974 and the Air Prevention and Control of Pollution Act 1981 are i to promote cleanliness of steams and wells in different areas of the states by prevention control and abatement of water pollution and ii to improve the equality of air and to prevent control or abater air pollution in the countryAir Quality Monitoring is an important part of the air quality management The National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring NAAQM programme has been established with objectives to determine the present with objectives to determine the present air quality status and trends and to control and regulate pollution form industries and other source to meet the air quality standards It also provides background air quality data needed for industrial siting and town planning Besides this CPCB has an automatic monitoring station at Indraprastha Estate near ITO Intersection in New Delhi At this station Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter RSPM Carbon Monoxide CO Ozone O3 Sulphur Dioxide SO2 Nitrogen Dioxide NO2 and Suspended Particulate Matter SPM are being monitored regularlyThis book will be of immense help to all those contemplating to acquire expert knowledge of the pollution related issues in the context of our own country 288 pp.