Environmental Analysis INDIA 2019 Final Proceedings.pdf · BIOGRAPHIES Dr B Sengupta Dr B Sengupta is an Environmental Scientist who worked with the Central Pollution Control Board

EnvironmentalAnalysis25-26 April 2019 • New Delhi, India

INDIA

ConferenceAgenda

AGENDA DAY 1

09:35 Keynote PresentationChemical Analysis - Sampling, Techniques & Risk AssessmentN Raveendhar, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPTRI, India

Scientific Session I: Environmental Analysis & Air Quality Assessment

08:00 Registration

10:55 Air Pollution Monitoring in India - Base Line Data Generation for Preparation of EIA ReportB Sengupta, Former Member Secretary, Central Pollution Control Board, India

09:05 Welcome Adress

Inaguration

09:15 Introduction & Memento Presentation

10:10 Card Exchange and Networking Session

10:25 Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

Microbial Indicators for Detection of Environmental StressesAnita Chaudhary, Principal Scientist, Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture - IARI, India

11:45

11:20 Air Dispersion Modelling – An Essential Tool in Air Quality ManagementSudhanshu Kumar, Director and Co-founder, Envitrans, India

12:10 New Advances in Analytical Mass Spectrometry for Environmental ApplicationsBrijesh Pandey, Business Development Manager, SCIEX, India

12:35 Group Photograph

13:05 Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

12:45 Poster viewing

17:20 Feedback

15:30 Coffee Break & Networking in Exhibition Area

17:30 End of First Day of Conference

14:40 Understanding Uncertainties in Environmental MeasurementsSK Goyal, Sr.Principal Scientist & Head, CSIR-NEERI, Delhi Zonal Center, India

Scientific Session II: Environmental Pollution - Challenges and Solutions

Scientific Session III: Recent Advances in Environmental Analysis

Scientific Session IV: Understanding Pollution, Waste andTheir Management

16:05 Multi Pesticide Analysis of Surface and Groundwater in Vegetable, Rice and Cotton Cropping AreaTanu Jindal, Professor & Director- AIESTM, Amity University, India

14:05 Keynote PresentationStop Killing Yourselves – An Action Plan for Tackling Air Pollution in Indian Cities!Alan Hedge, Professor- Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, USA

15:05 Regulatory Monitoring of Dioxins & PCBs inEnvironmental Samples with AdvancedAnalytical SolutionsParveen Arya, Application Scientist-Gas Phase Solutions, Agilent India, India

Pulsed Amperometry Detection of Free Cyanide in Real Aqueous Matrix on a Gold Working Electrode in Ion Exchange ChromatographyAlok Kumar Meher, Junior Scientific Assistant, Instrumentation Laboratory, Central Pollution Control Board, India

15:50

Plenary PresentationDisinfectants and Disposal Methods in Hospitals and Clinical Laboratories in India- Are we Honestly Doing our Bit for “Swatch Bharat Mission”?Siddharth Dutta, Senior Advisor Healthcare, Microbide India Pvt Ltd, India

16:20

Environmental Nanoscience: From Understanding the Role of Nanomaterials in the Environment to their Application for Remediation of Toxic MetalsGopala Krishna Darbha, Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata, India

16:40

16:55 Releasing of Hexabromocyclododecanes from Expanded Polystyrenes in Water - Field and Laboratory ExperimentsManviri Rani, Assistant Professor, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India

17:10 Utilization of Bio char for Agri-waste Management*Neeta Raj Sharma, Professor, Additional Dean and Head, School of Bioengineering & Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, India *Skype Presentation

AGENDA DAY 2

10:25 Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

10:00 Efficient Photocatalytic Materials for Wastewater Treatment ApplicationsRaju Kumar Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India

09:35 Integrated Biological and Bioelectrochemical Processes for Wastewater TreatmentSunil A Patil, Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences, IISER Mohali, India

09:00 Keynote PresentationWaste Materials as Adsorbents for the Removal of Organic Dyes from WastewaterAlok Mittal, Professor & Dean, MANIT, India

Scientific Session V: Current Approaches in Wasterwater TreatmentSession Chair: Naved Ahsan, Jamia Millia Islamia

Scientific Session VI: Sewage Treatment Plants - Indian Scenario

10:55 Status of Sewage Treatment Plants at NCT of DelhiSK Singh, Professor & Dean, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Delhi Technological University, India

11:20 Real Time Monitoring & Troubleshooting of Wastewater Treatment PlantsAdarsh Sridharan, Water Business Specialist, Greenvironment Innovation & Marketing India (P) Ltd, India

Scientific Session VII: Water and Environmental Analysis- Striking the Right Cord

12:00 QA/QC Water Quality Analysis - Checking the CorrectnessJagdish Kumar Bassin, Chief Scientist & Head (Retd), CSIR-NEERI Delhi Zonal Lab, Independent Consultant, Water Quality Modelling, India

12:25 Why Biological Filtration Systems are the Best Solutions for Wastewater Treatment under Most ConditionsRahul Chabbra, CEO, Transchem Agritech Pvt. Ltd.

Biotransformation of Cr(VI) by the Cyanobacterium synechocystisSp. PUPCCC 62JIS Khattar, Professor, Department of Botany, Punjabi University, India

11:45

17:15 Feedback

17:25 Vote of Thanks & End of Conference

16:25 Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

Scientific Session VIII: Biodegradation, Bioremediation & Public Health

Scientific Session IX: Academic Research Presentations

14:10 Bioprocess Engineering for Biodegradation of Pharmaceutical CompoundsGarima Kaushik, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Central University of Rajasthan, India

13:25 Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

14:35 Monitoring of Drug Residue in Hospital EffluentSirajuddin Ahmed, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), India

15:25 Environment Effect of Brine Rejects Discharge back to Sea from Desalination PlantsSudhakar Deenadayalan, Senior Project Manager, Richardson& Cruddas, India

15:45 Engineered Bioremediation of Polluted Sites under Arid and Semi-arid ConditionBrijesh Kumar Yadav, Associate Professor, Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

15:00 Baseline Studies in the Vicinity of a Proposed Nuclear Power Station in HaryanaVinod Kumar Garg, Professor & COC, Central University of Punjab, India

A Comparative Study between Fenton and Electro Fenton Processes on Removal of Carbon Based Pollutant from Dye Intermediate Waste WaterNibedita Pani, Research Scholar, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India

16:55

Effect of Pendimethalin on Photosynthetic Pigments and Nitrogen Uptake of Cyanobacterium desmonostoc muscorum PUPCCC 405.10Manzoor Ahmad Bhat, Research Scholar, Punjabi University, India

16:45

Environmental Pollution monitoring of Amritsar, Punjab (India)Jatinder Kaur Katnoria, Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, GuruNanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

12:50

17:05 Bioremediation Techniques- Comparison Based on Principle, Advantages, Limitation and ApplicationHimanshu Pandey, Research Scholar, Central University of Haryana, India

Public Health in India —Issues and Challenges, the Way ForwardPK Sasidharan, Former Professor and Head, Govt.Medical College, Kozhikode, India

16:05

13:05 Poster Viewing

SpeakerBiographies

BIOGRAPHIES

Dr B Sengupta

Dr B Sengupta is an Environmental Scientist who worked with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), under Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India for more than 30 years – of which for 10 years he was the Member Secretary of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). He has also worked with University of Florida, Gaines-ville, USA on air quality management and control. He has vast experience in the field of Air and Water Quality Management, Industrial Pollution Control, Standard Development (Ambient and Source specific), environmental impact assessment studies, fuel quality improvements, clean technology, waste minimization, pollution prevention issues, pol-lution control in small scale industry units, climate change, hazardous and solid waste management. He has represented India in many international meetings, seminars and workshops organized by UNEP, USEPA, WHO, World Bank, UNIDO and many others. Dr. Sengupta has published more than 250 technical reports while working in CPCB and also presented and published more than 50 papers in National and International peer reviewed Journals. During his long career, he has been Chairman of Environmental & Waste management committee of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), CHD 32, Chair-man of core and peer committee of Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) on Energy Information Administration (EIA) manuals, Chairman of Technical Committee of Ozone cell of MoEF, Member of Research Advisory Council of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Member of sub-committee of Climate and Air Pollution of Planning Commission, Govt. of India, Technical environmental expert of National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies, (NABCB) and Member of Accred-itation Committee of NABAT, Quality council of India, New Delhi, Member of Research Advisory Council of Maharashtra, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Visiting faculty of ASCI, Hyderabad, Consultant of World Bank, Washington, USA, Consultant of Interna-tional Council for Clean Transportation (ICCT), Washington, USA, Consultant of Heirich Boll Stiftung, Berlin, Germany, Technical Advisor of Blacksmith Institute, New York, USA etc.Presently, he is member of Environment Appraisal Committee (Industry), MoEF, New Delhi for grant of environmental clearance for industrial projects.

Dr RaveendharNamilikonda

Dr N Raveendhar is Chief Environmental Scientist at Environment Protection Training & Research Institute (EPTRI). Previously, he was Jt.Chief.Environmental Scientist, Sr .Social Scientist(FAC),&Director i/c NGC at Telangana State Pollution control Board and Senior Environmental ScientistS at A.P. Pollution control Board. Dr Raveendhar did his M.sc in Organic chemistry from Kakatiya University followed by PG Diploma In Environ-mental Management Field Of Environmental Toxicology from University of Hyderabad (1998 – 1999) and PG Diploma In Environmental Studies Field Of Study Air Pollution from Andhra University (1995 – 1996).

Dr SudhanshuKumar

Dr Sudhanshu Kumar is Director and Co-founder of Envitrans and Member of State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC), Bihar. At Envitrans he is leading the interdisciplinary team of professionals and looking after the technical parts of consultancy services and software development and conducting training programs. He has 24 years’ experience in managing and conducting various Environmental Impact Assessment, Management Plan-ning and Software Development Projects in India and abroad. As accomplished trainer, he has conducted several workshops on specialty air dispersion modelling topics in India. He is specialized in air pollution meteorology, air dispersion mathematical modelling, and acoustic remote sensing of Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) using SODAR technique. He is well experienced with the MoEF&CC recommend U.S. EPA air dispersion models.

Dr AnitaChaudhary

Dr Anita Chaudhary is Principal Scientist at National Innvoations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (IARI). Her specialization is in the field of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology. She works on how exactly plant-associated microbial communities are influenced either directly by altered environmental conditions or indirectly by altered plant physiology. She has many publications to her credit.

He is the lead author in developing AERMODCloud®, FDMpro, CALINEpro and dhwani-PRO® software at Envitrans. AERMODCloud® is an integrated GUI for US EPA models AERMOD, AERMAP, AERMET and ISCST3. He was also a NABET accredited Func-tional Area Expert in Air Quality and Noise. Dr Kumar earned a PhD in Environmental Sciences for his research work relating to the impact on air pollutant dispersion due to the meteorological stratification in lower atmosphere, from Magadh University. He served as a Principal Environmental Consultant in the URS Corporation (now AECOM) prior to joining Envitrans.

Prof Alan Hedge

Prof Alan Hedge is in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, USA. He has directed the Human Factors and Ergonomics teaching and re-search programs. His research includes the health and comfort impacts of various en-vironmental stressors, such as the effects of indoor air quality on health and wellbeing and investigations of the sick building syndrome. He is a graduate field member for Fiber Sciences at Cornell. He has been an honorary research professor in the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University and he undertakes collaborative research with the Center of Excel-lence in Environmental and Energy Systems Innovations in Syracuse. He was a founding member of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate. He has given tes-timony on indoor air quality and indoor environment design issues to several committees of the US House of Representatives and to OSHA in Washington, D.C., to the UK House of Commons, and to the New York State Assembly. He is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (U.S.A.), of the International Ergonomics Association, of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (U.K.), a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) and a Chartered Ergonomist (C.ErgHF). He has authored for 4 books, 40 chapters and over 250 scientific articles. He consults on ergonomic and indoor environment design issues and has served as a consultant and scientific adviser to a number of organizations and major corporations.

Mr Brijesh Pandey

Mr Brijesh Pandey , Market Development Manager-Omics, Food, Forensic & Clinical Business, Sciex- A Division of DHR Holding India Pvt. Ltd. has been working with Sciex since Jan 2013 and is currently responsible for support and technical marketing activi-ties in the proteomics, metabolomics, Lipidomics, Food & clinical research by using high resolution mass spectrometry, A hybrid technology -Linear Ion Trap (QTRAP) and Triple Quad systems. Prior to joining Sciex, he has worked with Bio-Rad Laboratories (India) Ltd. in various capacities primarily focusing on Expression and functional proteomics. He has more than 11 years of experience in promoting Analytical techniques for Pro-teomics & Food applications. Currently he is focused on commercializing & promoting mass spectrometry-based workflows for Forensic, clinical and Food Business in India. A primary area of focus is to establish & promote the Sciex solutions for Forensic, Drug tox-icology, Food & clinical research application like Pesticides residue analysis, mycotoxins, Food Allergen testing, Food Authenticity etc in India. Before joining Bio-Rad Laboratories, Brijesh was working at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai as Research Associ-ate in Radiation and Cancer Biology Division. His area of Research was Liposomes as a drug delivery model. Brijesh did his masters in Biotechnology & MBA from Allahabad University.

Dr S K Goyal

Dr S K Goyal is S.r.Principal Scientist & Head, CSIR-NEERI, Delhi .He has done mas-ters in Chemical Engineering with specialization in industrial pollution abatement from IIT Roorkee in the year 1989 and PhD in Environmental Science & Technology from Nagpur University in 2002. He has multi-disciplinary research experience, and has significantly contributed to various projects relating to Carrying Capacity based developmental plan-ning studies for different topographical zones leading to sustainable development of the region like Doon Valley, National Capital Region, Jamshedpur Region and Greater Kochi Region, Sambalpur-Jharsuguda Region, iron & manganese ore mining in Odisha), envi-ronmental impact assessment for different industrial sectors (refinery, power plants, ports & harbors, SEZ), assimilative capacity based industrial development planning studies, air and stack emission monitoring with QA/QC and performance evaluation, energy recovery from industrial (distillery) and hospital wastewaters through bench and pilot scale studies using fixed film reactor technology, paper manufacturing process optimization (pulping, bleaching & paper making) and waste management for non-conventional raw materials based pulp and paper mills with economic evaluation.He has more than 100 research publications in journals/conference and supervised about 20 MSc/M.Tech students on air and water related topics. He received Prof. R.C. Singh Prize for Greatest Practical Importance Paper by the Institution of Engineers (India) in December 2006 for the pa-per “Optimization of Aerated Lagoon System Treating Municipal Wastewater”. Dr. Goyal is currently Heading Delhi Zonal Centre of CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), and actively working on the air and water pollution related issues of Delhi-NCR.

Mr Alok Kumar Meher

Mr Alok Kumar Meher is Junior Scientific Assistant, Instrumentation Laboratory, Central Pollution Control Board. He has 6 years of research experience on Analytical method de-velopment using Chromatography systems such as Ion Chromatography and HPLC for detection of toxic Cyanide species.His work is on Elemental analysis using spectroscopy techniques namely AAS/ICP OES & ICP-MS. He is an expert in speciation analysis of toxic elements namely As, Se, Cr & Hg using hyphenated techniques such as HPLC-ICP-MS and IC-ICP-MS. He is involved in synthesis of the functionalized material/adsorbent for removal of toxic elements like CN, As, Se, Cr etc from drinking/wastewater matrices.

Prof Tanu Jindal

Prof Tanu Jindal is Professor & Director- AIESTM, Amity University. She completed her Ph.D at the age of 28 years from Department of Zoology, University of Delhi. She is the Founding Director of Amity Institute for Environmental Toxicology, Safety and Manage-ment (AIETSM) and Amity Institute of Environmental Sciences (AIES) at Amity University, Noida. She has published more than 38 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. Prof. Tanu Jindal has Doctorate with specializa-tion in Ecotoxicology from University of Delhi, 1999. She is Director and Professor, Amity Institute of Environmental Science and also Amity Institute of Environmental Toxicology, Safety and Management. She is nodal person for Amity Centre for Environmental Health and Science. She is also In-charge of Amity Centre for Antarctic Research and Studies. She is responsible for PhD, MSc. and B.Sc Environmental Science courses to promote

Mr Parveen Arya

Mr Parveen Arya is Application Scientist - Gas Phase Solutions, Agilent India, India

environmental research and studies with syllabus covering important and current area of environmental science. She has filed six patents on lysimetric-device, apparatus to esti-mate the loss of xenobiotics by volatilization and mineralization, natural pesticide, photo-chemical method to dispose of dilute pesticide waste and cost effective water testing kit. Her research interests are studies on environmental contaminants and their impact on eco-system Bio-remediation, site reclamation, environmental monitoring and data collec-tion. Waste water treatment, solid waste management. Environmental Toxicology, Safety and Management She has completed projects on river contamination through pesticides, Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF&CC), Contamination of soil and groundwa-ter through leaching of drains in Delhi, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), groundwater contamination Chlorpyrifos in soils at different pH with CWRDM, DST. Her recent initia-tives are projects on Development of Emission Factors for Fire Crackers-CPCB, Environ-mental monitoring studies at Antarctica- NCAOR, Goa, Development of Lysimeter -DST, Impact of Electro Magnetic Radiation- DST. Establishment of the Pesticide Referral Lab-oratory and MRL fixation of pulses and spices were her research endeavors at ICAR. Her expertise area is ISO-17025, GLP-studies, radio and stable isotope tracer techniques, GCMS and LCMS studies etc. She taught Pesticides Chemistry and Toxicology in Delhi University for 7 years to MSc students. She holds membership of eminent scientific soci-eties. She has travelled extensively nationally and internationally USA, Singapore, Hol-land, Canada, Germany, France etc., presenting papers and have publications in referred journals of high impact factor. She is instrumental in finalizing MoU’s with top scientific national and international organizations, Toxicology Centre Saskatchewan etc.Editor of The Year Award 2017 by MTRES, Excellence in Research and Teaching Award 2017 by National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), prestigious Scientist of the year Award – 2015 and Environmentalist of the Year Award-2014 by NESA, New Investigator Award presentation at American Chemical Society, DST Young Scientist Award Project are to her credit. She has received travel awards from CSIR, DST & INSA. She has convened three national conferences, two symposiums at ACS, various seminars and events such as water day, earth day, Environment and ozone day etc. Her students are continuing legacy of winning awards at American Chemical Society and ICOBTE Japan. She is dedicated to environmental research to save earth, to bring worth for the new birth. Her research interests are studies on environmental contaminants and their impact on eco-system Bio-remediation, site reclamation, environmental monitoring and data collec-tion. Waste water treatment, solid waste management. Environmental Toxicology, Safety and Management Her research interests are studies on environmental contaminants and their impact on eco-system Bio-remediation, site reclamation, environmental monitoring and data collection. Waste water treatment, solid waste management. Environmental Toxicology, Safety and Management.

Dr Siddharth Dutta

Dr Siddharth Dutta is Senior Advisor Healthcare, Microbide India Pvt Ltd . He has Med-ical Microbiologist by qualification and strategist by passion. With more than 19 years of industry and work experience in countries such as USA, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and India. Dr Dutta has served the AII India Institute of Medical Sciences, University Hospital of Cleveland and PGI Chandigarh as medical researcher and has worked on blood infections, clinical trials and animal trials. As a strategist and senior consultant, he has been associated with companies such as OSI Inc. USA, Frost and Sullivan APAC and Markets and Markets, India. He has also worked for a short duration with BIRAC, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India as Program Manager. As a teacher and researcher, he has taught MD students, MBA and Biotechnology students in India and abroad (guest faculty). As a market research analyst and strategist, he works with premium companies in medical devices and pharmaceuticals sector, all across the world.

He has been quoted in more than 70 global publications. His work has been published in Express Healthcare (2018-2019), Consultant Reviews, Biospectrum Asia (Singapore), Forbes USA (co-author) and other publications from Japan, India, Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, USA and Singapore. As a thought leader, his analysis and insights are valued in the healthcare industry and have been invited to various industry platforms in India and abroad. He is currently associated with key companies as their Industry advisor and image consultant and helping them gain visibility in the international market and make revenue impact.India

Dr GopalaKrishna Darbha

Dr Gopala Krishna Darbha Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata, India

Dr Neeta Raj Sharma

Dr Neeta Raj Sharma is Professor, Additional Dean and Head of School of Bioengineer-ing & Biosciences at Lovely Professional University and having above 22 years of mul-tidisciplinary experience in Teaching, Industry, Research & Administration. Currently, Dr. Sharma has been engaged in external funded International Projects of repute in collabo-ration of McGill University and Guelph University in Canada, University of Victoria, Can-ada, Laval University and Lakehead University, Canada on sustainability development projects, which has been a rampant global societal challenge in developing countries nowadays. She is a strong promoter of translational research and conducting community projects. Her other research areas of interest are Bioreactor designing for Agri-Biomass waste utilization, Toxicology, Cancer Biology, Herbal Products formulation and Instrumen-tation. She has published above 50 scientific articles, filed/ published patents, copyrights, book chapters, Books, articles in magazines of high repute. She has been awarded fellow award of scientific society and the regional elected member of Indian Science Congress. She has supervised MITACS Globalink research award Abroad, to Ph.D. student from McGill University, Canada. She has availed International Fellowships from University of British Columbia, Canada and Bermingham City University, UK. Dr. Sharma was also invited by Simon Fraser University, Canada to deliver her research on waste treatment. Also Dr. Sharma has been an instrumental in conducting Conferences, workshops, sym-posium and guest lectures from industries and academia. During her industry experience of R & D manager, she developed nutraceuticals and edible colors and standardized the protocols for enhancing the recovery of secondary metabolites from medicinal plants. As an academician, her vision is to promote multidisciplinary education and research and motivate students for entrepreneurship projects in a team. She has been involved in teaching UG & PG students of school of Bioengineering and Biosciences. She is keen in developing scientific fervor amongst young minds and devise new pedagogical strategies to engage students in the activities other than routine curriculum. Dr. Sharma empha-sized the need of school teachers to get training on recent updates and provided an opportunity to them to have demonstration in the labs of School of Bioengineering & Biosciences. She was selected as a Resource person of Regional Science Congress, 2017, under MHRD, Govt. of India). Being Administrator, she has been actively handling 8 departments under the umbrella of School of Bio Engineering & Biosciences.

Dr Manviri Rani

Dr Manviri Rani Assistant Professor, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India

Dr Alok Mittal

Dr Alok Mittal is presently working as Dean (Research and Consultancy) and Professor of Chemistry at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal. He has earned highest academic degree, Doctor of Science (D.Sc.). He is an alumnus of University of Roorkee (Presently, I.I.T., Roorkee) and obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from there. He has published more than 100 research papers and authored 15 books. The impor-tance, influence and excellence of his research publications can be estimated through high citation of his research papers. With more than ten thousand citations and H-factor 48, recently his name appeared in the list of ‘Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Research-ers of the Year 2018’ and amongst only 10 Indian listed this year. He also contributes his expertise as reviewer and Editorial Board Member for many international journals of environmental field. He has guided several Ph.D.s on the topics related to environmen-tal problems. He has received many national and international awards. He is recipient of prestigious BOYSCAST fellowship for Post Doctoral work at University of Dundee in United Kingdom. At present he is Board of Governors Member of IISER, Bhopal. He has also been Expert Member of State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority of Madhya Pradesh.

Dr Sunil A Patil

Dr Sunil A Patil (Ph.D. Microbiology, 2011) is an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali. Before joining IISER, he has worked at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany; Lund University, Sweden, and Ghent University, Belgium. Broadly, his research interests are in Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, and specifically in Microbial electrochemistry and technology. The key research areas that he is currently focusing on include electricity-driven production of multicarbon chemicals and fuels from CO2 using microorganisms, wastewater treatment and resource recovery using microbial electrochemical technologies, electrode-assisted bioremediation of micropollutants, and electroactive microorganisms. He has been a re-cipient of DAAD Ph.D. scholarship (2008-2010), Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowships (2011-2015) and the Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers (2016-2017). He has more than 35 peer-reviewed papers (>2100 citations; H-index 23) and 10 book chapters to his credit.

Dr Raju Kumar Gupta

Dr Raju Kumar Gupta is Associate Professor at Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India. He did his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Roorkee in 2005 and PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from National University of Singa-pore, Singapore in 2010. His research focuses on Photocatalysis, Green synthesis of nanomaterials, Surface chemistry, High dielectric constant materials, Perovskite solar cells, Supercapacitors, Electrospinning of functional polymers and nanocomposites for environmental and energy applications. Dr Gupta is the receipient of many Awards and Recognition ie. DST Inspire Faculty Award 2013, IEI Young Engineer Award (2014-15), IAAM Young Scientist Award 2014 at International Smart Materials and Surfaces Confer-ence (SMS 2014), Thailand.P. K. Kelkar Young Faculty Research Fellowship 2018 by IIT Kanpur and many more.

Prof S K Singh

Prof S K Singh born on 25th July, 1964, is a Professor & Dean, at Delhi Technological University, Delhi. Having throughout first division with distinction in his career, he obtained his Ph.D. from BITS, Pilani and M. Tech. from IIT-BHU, Varanasi and B.E. from Gorakhpur University. He is recipient of numerous awards and honours. He is engaged in teaching, re-search, administration and consultancy for the last 30 years and presently is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering from the last 18 years at Delhi Technological University, Delhi (Formerly Delhi College of Engineering) selected through Union Public Service Com-mission. Dr. Singh has received numerous felicitations and awards by professional bodies. Dr. S.K. Singh is also Part-Time Director of WAPCOS Limited (a Mini-ratna –I company of Govt. of India). Dr. Singh has served as a Faculty Member at Birla Institute of Technolo-gy and Science (BITS), Pilani, College of Engineering and Technology, Bathinda, Punjab and Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana. He has become youngest professor at the age of 35 years, at Delhi Technological University through Union Public Service Commis-sion (UPSC). He held the positions of Dean, Faculty of Technology, Delhi University (DU), Delhi and Head, Deptt. of Civil Engineering, Delhi University. He has been Dean (Admin-istration), Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi and Founder Chairman, EDUSAT Program for Delhi state. He is presently Head, Environmental Engineering Department and Dean (International Relations) at Delhi Technological University. He is also Member of Board of Governors, CSMRS, Ministry of Water Resources, GOI; Member, Board of Management, Vishvesvaraiya Group of Institutions; Member, Board of Management, Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli (M.S.); Chairman, Departmental Promotion Committee, IASRI (ICAR) New Delhi; Member, University Court, University of Delhi. Dr. Singh has received numerous felicitations and awards by professional bodies such as DR. APJ ABDUL KALAM AWARD, 2016, RASHTRIYA SHIKSHA GAURAV PURASKAR 2014 for his outstanding and exempla-ry contribution towards Education. INTERNATIONAL FELICITATION and WEC-IIEE-IAEWP ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD sponsored by World Environmental Congress Committee and International Association of Educators for World Peace, Alabama U.S.A. for outstanding work done in the field of Environmental Engineering. The award was given by His Excellency Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India. RASHTRIYA SAMMAN PURASKAR (2005) was presented to him by Indian Society for Industry and Intellectual Development in 2005; EXCELLENT SERVICES AWARD by Senior Citizen Medicare and Rehabilitation Fed-eration, New Delhi. BHARAT VIKAS AWARD by International Business Council for outstand-ing contribution in field of Environment, CLEAN UP THE EARTH AWARD was conferred by the Global Peace University, The Netherlands, EMINENT PERSONALITY AWARD by Coun-cil for National Health Development, New Delhi for services rendered with wisdom, courage and vision to National Development. In his versatile capacity, Dr. Singh has worked as Chair-man for Indian Society of Technical Education, Delhi College of Engineering Chapter. He had been elected Executive Member of Environmental Engineering, Division of Delhi State Centre, Institution of Engineers (India). He has been member of the various prestigious bod-ies like Institution of Engineers, Institution of Environmental Engineers; Geological Society of India, Bangalore; Indian Chemical Society, New York Academy of Sciences, New York; American Society of Civil Engineers; Indian Association of Environmental Management, In-dian Road Congress, Indian Science Congress Association, Council for National Health Development, Member of Executive Committee, Institution of Engineers; Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers, Indian Public Health Association, Indian Ecological Society, Punjab Academy of Sciences, Indian Society of Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, National Environmental Science Academy, Indian Water Works Association, Institution of Public Health Engineers Indian Society for Technical Education, New Delhi.

Mr Adarsh Sridharan

Mr Adarsh Sridharan, , Water Business Specialist, Greenvironment Innovation & Market-ing India (P) Ltd, India

Prof JIS Khattar

Prof JIS Khattar, Dept. of Botany, Punjabi University, India

Mr Jagdish Kumar Bassin

Mr Jagdish Kumar Bassin , Chief Scientist & Head (Retd), CSIR-NEERI Delhi Zonal Lab, Independent Consultant, Water Quality Modelling, India. Mr. Bassin has about 43 years of experience including industrial and R&D. He retired as Chief Scientist & Head, CSIR-NEERI Delhi Zonal Lab on superannuation in July 2014 and worked as Consultant in Na-tional Water Mission, MoWR,RD&GR up to January 2017. Presently he is functioning as Independent Consultant for water quality modelling and is a QCI-NABET accredited FAE (AP&WP) with PDCOR Ltd. Jaipur. He has wide experience in environmental monitoring and environmental system design including design of wastewater treatment plant; design of water distribution systems; mathematical modeling, EIA. He has developed a number of algorithms and computer software packages including: WWTP – Software for Design of Wastewater Treatment Plants; WATDIS – Software for Optimization of Water Distribu-tion Systems; DOWATTS – Software for Optimal Design of Conventional Water Treatment Plants; DHWANI – Environmental Noise Prediction Model; NAAQM-DHS– Database Soft-ware for National Ambient Air Quality Data; EVAL-BEES – Evaluation of Impact; RECI-PES – Software for estimation of Nutritive value of prepared food items; Post-processor for ‘COMPLEX’ Structural Design software; Post-processor for ‘ROTSYM’ Structural Design software and a number of utility Excel workbooks. He has a fairly good knowledge of mod-ern techniques of analysis like digital image processing (DIP) and geographical information system (GIS). He has used ARC/INFO – GIS and ERDAS – DIP software in the carrying capacity based developmental planning projects in NCR & Doon Valley. He has four years’ experience in the field of sophisticated analytical instrumentation, particularly in micropro-cessor based systems. He has been awarded 2nd Prize for his paper on ‘Graph Theoretic Approach to the Analysis of Water Distribution System’ published in the Jour. of Indian Water Works Association (1992), and John C Gammon Medal for the paper on ‘Shell-can-tilevers as Walls for Large Rectangular Tanks’ published in the Journal of Institution of En-gineers (I), (1998). He has over 40 national and international publications to his credit and has presented over 70 papers in various conferences, workshops and symposia; 22 invited lectures in addition to contribution in 40 technical project reports.

Mr Rahul Chabbra

Mr Rahul Chabbra CEO, Transchem Agritech Pvt Ltd

Prof Jatinder Kaur Katnoria

Prof Jatinder Kaur Katnoria, Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

Dr Garima Kaushik

Dr Garima Kaushik is currently working as Assistant Professor, in Department of Environ-mental Science, School of Earth Science, Central University of Rajasthan since 2011. A gold medallist in B. Sc. and M.Sc. from University of Rajasthan, she obtained Ph.D. in the field of Environmental Biotechnology, from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2009. She has also served as an Environmental Consultant to World Bank funded projects with gov-ernment of Rajasthan, namely; Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) and Rajasthan Rural Livelihood Project (RRLP). Her area of research interest is environmental microbiol-ogy and chiefly bioremediation of industrial effluents and biomedical waste management, and lately she is involved in enzymatic studies and their role in bioremediation processes. She is also pursuing her future research in the area on education for sustainable devel-opment. Dr. Kaushik has published several research papers in the field of bioremediation, climate change adaptation in international and national journals peer reviewed journals and has contributed in organizing various conferences and seminars. She has also participated in various academic events at national and international level and is also the life member of many academic societies including IWA and BRSI. She is a recipient of Dewang Mehta National Education award for Best Faculty for Environment Management in 2016. She has worked on national and international scientific projects including Indo Mexico International Project for 2017-2020.

Dr Sirajuddin Ahmed

Dr Sirajuddin Ahmed is currently Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Mil-lia Islamia (Central University). He did his Ph. D in Environmental Engg. from University of Wales, UK in 2008 and has Teaching Experience of 25 years, including 22 year at Post graduate Level. Currently, Dr Ahmed is a Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. His responsibilities include teaching at the undergraduate and post-graduate level, Research and Academic planning, Administrative responsibilities. Dr Ahmed is currently supervising three M. Tech. and 9 Ph.D. candidates. He has around 70-80 publications to his credit, 2 patents and is a reviewer of many research journals. Dr Ahmed has delivered many invited talks at National and International forum.

Dr Vinod Kumar Garg

Dr Vinod Kumar Garg is Professor, Dean and Chairman, Centre for Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda 151001, Punjab, India. His research area is focussed on Water Pollution monitoring and abatement, Solid Waste Management and Radioecology. Dr Garg has Research and Teaching Experience of 25 years. He has many publications with H-Index: 42 (Scopus); 52 ( By Google Scholar) and Citations of 6500 ( by Scopus); >10500 ( By Google Scholar). His 95 research papers have been cited more than 10 times. He has around 200 research papers (>150 in international Journals of good impact factor). Dr Garg is also acting as Reviewer for more than 70 journals, Member Editorial Board of Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research (NISCAIR, India); Indian Science Abstracts (NISCAIR, India); Guest editor for International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (Inderscience Publishers). Dr Garg has visited countries visited like USA, Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, France, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Bhutan. He has several research projects going having a funding of about Rs. 13.00 crores. Dr Garg has guided around 16 Ph D. Students.

Mr Sudhakar Deenadayalan , Senior Project Manager, Richardson & Cruddas, India

Mr Himanshu Pandey, Research Scholar, Central University of Haryana, India

Ms Nibedita Pani, Research Scholar, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhi-nagar, India

Mr Manzoor Ahmad Bhat , Research Scholar, Panjabi University, India

Prof PK Sasidharan

Prof PK Sasidharan ,Former Professor and Head, Govt Medical College Kozikode

Dr Brijesh Kumar Yadav

Dr Brijesh Kumar Yadav, Associate Professor, Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

SpeakerAbstracts

AGENDA DAY 1

Chemical Analysis - Sampling, Techniques & Risk AssessmentN Raveendhar, IPSChief Environmental Scientist, EPTRI, India

Air Pollution Monitoring in India - Base Line Data Generation for Preparation of EIA ReportB SenguptaFormer Member Secretary, Central Pollution Control Board, India

Air Dispersion Modelling – An Essential Tool in Air Quality ManagementSudhanshu KumarDirector and Co-founder, Envitrans, India

Urbanization is the integral part of economic development. It brings in its wake number of challenges like increase in population of urban settlement, high population density, increase in industrial activities, high rise buildings and increased vehicular movement. All these activities contribute to air pollution. The shape of a city and the land use distribution determine the location of emission sources and the pattern of urban traffic, affecting urban air quality.Air dispersion modelling utilizes information about sources, meteorological conditions and topography to compute the behaviour of pollutants in the air and so the air dispersion modelling is today\\\\\\\’s key concept in environ-mental regulation. Air quality modelling provides a useful support to decision making processes incorporating envi-ronmental policies and management process. They generate information that can be used in the decision-making process. Air dispersion models are used for scrutinizing scenarios that would otherwise be extremely expensive, challenging or destructive to do in the real world. Not only can a model identify the contributors to poor air quality, but it can decide whether a proposed new source is a threat. Thus, air dispersion models help in decision making to protect and manage the ambient air quality. Dispersion models are based on our understanding of how pollut-ants move through the atmosphere and what the pollution concentration is at a specific location. Models used to calculate the downwind air concentration of air pollutants emitted from various sources. Air dispersion models need inputs in terms of emissions, meteorology and topography. Poor quality inputs give way to poor quality output. Thus, it’s crucial to select the correct model for a given situation and ensure all the inputs have been checked for totality and accuracy.

Microbial Indicators for Detection of Environmental StressesAnita ChaudharyPrincipal Scientist, Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture - IARI, India

The health of the environment can be assessed by the bioindicators which can detect both positive or negative changes in the environment. To gauze the environmental impact of pollutants or different management practices, it is necessary to identify the relevant indicators based on the Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) assessment framework. The soil health can be measured by the ability of the microorganisms to respond quickly to changes, and their rapid adaptation to environmental conditions. The microbial function and changes in population thus help in discerning soil health assessment.

Microorganisms can serve as early warning signals as they quickly respond to environmental stresses e.g. rate of turnover of microbial biomass can easily help in the detection of soil organic carbon, rather than the measurement of soil organic carbon per se which will reflect the changes in soil chemical properties after a long time. Even the measurement of soil microbial and their enzyme parameters can reveal the impact of different resource conserva-tion technologies on soil ecosystem health. Due to the multifunction characteristics of soil, it is generally difficult to identify universal indicator of soil health and hence several microbial indicators can be identified based on the end point characterization of soil ecosystem parameters. Minimum data sets of different physical chemical and biological indicators needs to be selected based on the reproducibility fast measurement and their sensitivity. To give the policy makers and giving awareness to the general public for the state of the environment, the selection of the indicators should not only be broad but it should also be done on the basis of whether the measurements are to be done either in vitro or in situ.

New Advances in Analytical Mass Spectrometry for Environmental ApplicationsBrijesh PandeyBusiness Development Manager, SCIEX, India

Stop Killing Yourselves – An Action Plan for Tackling Air Pollution in IndianCities!Alan Hedge Professor- Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University, USA

India has a pressing public health crisis because many of the cities now have the most polluted air in the world. The World Health Organization estimated that in 2017 outdoor air pollution in Indian cities caused 1,24 million premature deaths. In Delhi alone is estimated that 50% of children suffer from asthma because of poor air quality. Cooking in Indian homes often is done over either an open fire or cooking gas, both of which produce high levels of toxic indoor air pollutants and an estimated worldwide premature death toll exceeding 3 million people. The Indian government has launched a National Clean Air Program that aims for 20-30% reduction in toxic outdoor air by 2024, but this alone will not immediately impact urban residents or those who cook indoors. This presentation will review recent research on potential solutions to reduce individual exposures to hazardous air pollutants, especially airborne particulates that RPM 2.5 µm or smaller that can be reduced using nanofiber filters, combustion gases such as carbon monoxide that can be reduced by changing cooking technology, and volatile organic compounds that can be reduced using genetically modified plants which could be a part of any greening of the environment program. Based on this research the outline of an action plan for India will be presented that will complement the recent clean-air initiative. For the future health and success of India it is vital to begin protecting people, especially those who are most vulnerable to air pollutants, namely children and elderly individuals and those with respiratory problems, as soon as possible and to provide for clean air within people’s individual breathing zone to promote the health and well-being.

Understanding Uncertainties in Environmental MeasurementsS K GoyalSr.Principal Scientist & Head, CSIR-NEERI, Delhi Zonal Center, India

Regulatory Monitoring of Dioxins & PCBs in Environmental Samples with Ad-vanced Analytical SolutionsParveen AryaApplication Scientist - Gas Phase Solutions, Agilent India, India

Pulsed Amperometry Detection of Free Cyanide in Real Aqueous Matrix on a Gold Working Electrode in Ion Exchange ChromatographyAlok Kumar MeherJunior Scientific Assistant, Instrumentation Laboratory, Central Pollution Control Board, India

In the present work, I have described a fast, reliable, safe and an automated Ion Exchange Chromatography-Pulsed Amperometry Detection (IC-PAD) system for quantification of free cyanide in real aqueous matrices like drinking, ground and surface waters. To the best of my knowledge for the first time in the world, application of gold working electrode for detection and determination of free cyanide has been reported. The analytical performance of the electrode with the newly developed waveform has also been discussed, which shows no need of manual polishing of the electrode to restore the performance of the systemMoreover, the newly developed method rules out the tedious and hazardous acid refluxing of the sample pretreatment step and allows direct analysis of cyanide in a sample . The system shows linearity of the analyte in a broad range of concentration from 0.005 to 8.00mg/L, with a regression coefficient of 0.9985. The electrode was found to be sensitive and selective for free cyanide in the presence of various potential interfering agents. The analyte was recoveredin the range of 97.2-104.9% in the presence of all interfering agents. . The detection limit of the presented system was calculated to be as low as 1.8 µg/L for an injection volume of 20 µL. Evaluation of long-term performance of the electrode was found to be stable. Microorganisms can serve as early warning signals as they quickly respond to environmental stresses e.g. rate of turnover of microbial biomass can easily help in the detection of soil organic carbon, rather than the mea-surement of soil organic carbon per se which will reflect the changes in soil chemical properties after a long time. Even the measurement of soil microbial and their enzyme parameters can reveal the impact of different resource conservation technologies on soil ecosystem health. Due to the multifunction characteristics of soil, it is generally difficult to identify universal indicator of soil health and hence several microbial indicators can be identified based on the end point characterization of soil ecosystem parameters. Minimum data sets of different physical chemical and biological indicators needs to be selected based on the reproducibility fast measurement and their sensitivity. To give the policy makers and giving awareness to the general public for the state of the environment, the selection of the indicators should not only be broad but it should also be done on the basis of whether the measurements are to be done either in vitro or in situ. Reproducible and precise results were obtained, with recoveries of 98.64 to 101.23% and Relative Standard Deviations (RSD) of <2 % for all the evaluated real environmental matrices namely drinking water, lake water and stream samples. This study proves the potential application of the newly developed method for the analysis of cyanide in real aqueous matrices.

Multi Pesticide Analysis of Surface and Groundwater in Vegetable, Rice and Cot-ton Cropping AreaTanu JindalProfessor & Director- AIESTM, Amity University, India

Disinfectants and Disposal Methods in Hospitals and Clinical Laboratories in In-dia- Are we Honestly Doing our Bit for “Swatch Bharat Mission”?Siddharth DuttaSenior Advisor Healthcare, Microbide India Pvt Ltd, India

Ever since SBM’s inception, it has been adopted everywhere, be it home or hospitals. I would like to believe that the majority of the clinical laboratories and hospitals in India are using chemicals (disinfectants) as per JCI & NABH guidelines, and also try to comply with the government of India environmental safety norms. I would also like to be-lieve that everyone understands the danger of releasing micro-organisms (live or dead) in the environment and/or releasing chemical disinfectants in rivers. As a responsible citizen and supporter of PM’s “Swatch Bharat Mission”, are we doing enough? Overall in India, we have 35,400 government hospitals which have more than 13,76,013 beds in public healthcare space and >40-50,000 private hospitals (and additional number of under-reported and unregistered small clinics and set-ups). Every day these facilities are processing samples and using disinfectants in their hospitals, clinics and laboratories following some protocols (approved?) These chemicals are supposed to be processed for toxicity before releasing them in the environment.As per the Biomedical Waste Rules 2016, state pollution control boards are the prescribed authority for implementation of the provisions under the rules. I would like to believe that we all comply to these norms. Then why do I read articles that state pollution control board in one of the Indian states had to issue 80 notices to HCEs in 2018. There are other instances as well. Where are we going wrong? Among the popular disinfectants used in hospitals and clinical laboratoriesFormaldehyde, Glutaraldehyde, Ortho-phthalaldehyde, Hydrogen peroxide, Peracetic acid and Hydrogen peroxide/peracetic acid combination are some of the popular ones. How do we process them? How do we monitor them? What all options do we have which can be affordable, accessible and adaptable?As per reports published by ASSOCHAM, India is likely to generate about 775.5 tonnes of medical waste per day by 2022 from the current level of 550.9 tonnes daily (Economic Times, March 2018). How do we deal with this? It’s easy to comment on the problems, but are there any solutions? Lets find out.

Environmental Nanoscience: From Understanding the Role of Nanomaterials in the Environment to their Application for Remediation of Toxic MetalsGopala Krishna Darbha Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata, India

The current presentation is focused on the overall scenario of how nanoparticles play an important role in environ-mental research. The nanomaterials (size<100 nm) is present in the environment either by anthropogenic origin (metal oxides, carbon nanotube, nanoplastic etc.) or the natural process such as biological decaying or chemical weathering (humic, minerals etc.). Anthropogenic nanoparticles, because of their toxicity, it is crucial to understand their fate and transport in the environment. Also, natural nanoparticles may act as potential contaminant carries whereby, they may add to pollute surface and ground water resources. On the other hand, engineered nanoparti-cles because of their high surface area to volume ratio and extensive physico-chemical properties, they have been explored for environmental application such as remediation and detection of contaminants in the environment. We hereby present the latest results on both the 1) fundamental aspects of understanding the fate of nanomate-rials such as nanometal oxides, nanoplastics, nanopesticides in the environment 2) design and development of eco-friendly, effective, economically viable nanocomposites for the remediation of inorganic and organic toxins from the environmental samples.

Utilization of Bio char for Agri-waste Management (Skype Presentation)Neeta Raj SharmaSenior Advisor Healthcare, Microbide India Pvt Ltd, India

Releasing of Hexabromocyclododecanes from Expanded Polystyrenes in Water - Field and Laboratory ExperimentsManviri RaniAssistant Professor, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India

AGENDA DAY 2

Waste Materials as Adsorbents for the Removal of Organic Dyes from WastewaterAlok MittalProfessor & Dean, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, India

Today water pollution has become major environmental problems and the control of water pollution is one of the prime concerns of the scientific community. Actual cause of water pollution is the recklessness shown by human activities. The waste disposed in large or small amounts, dumped intentionally or accidentally, is carried away by the water current, but will never disappear. Out of almost 10 million chemicals known today, approximately 100,000 chemicals are used commercially. Even in tiny amounts, some of these substances can cause serious harm to the humans and other living beings. Dyes, the most impending material used in the industrial sector as coloring material are synthetic organic aromatic compounds that are molecularly dispersed and bound to the substrates by intermolecular forces. The textile industry ranks first in the consumption of the dyes and effluents released from textile dyeing, which is intensely colored and pose serious problems to various segments of the environment. The persisting color, non-biodegradable, toxic and inhibitory nature of spent dye baths has considerable deleterious effects on the water and soil environment. Presence of coloring stuff in extensive quantities in receiving water not only reduces light access and photosynthetic activity, but also renders their appearance unaesthetic. Therefore, it becomes imperative that color must be removed from dye effluents before disposal of the effluent. In recent years adsorption phenomenon has emerged as a most powerful tool for the purification and separation. The beauty of the phenomenon is that it is controlled by various parameters viz. initial adsorbate concentration, pH, adsorbent dose, contact time, particle size of adsorbent, temperature etc. and this process is operative in most natural, phys-ical, biological and chemical systems. Selection of an effective adsorbent is an essential component of adsorption phenomenon. Hence, scientists are always in hunt for economic, efficient and versatile adsorbents. In the past few years, several types of industrial, agricultural and biological waste materials have been developed as highly effective adsorbents and few of such type have been developed in our laboratory. The talk will include a detailed overview on role of these adsorbents for the removal of organic dyes from wastewater. Integrated Biological and Bioelectrochemical Processes for WastewaterTreatmentSunil A PatilAssistant Professor, Environmental Sciences, IISER Mohali, India

Efficient Photocatalytic Materials for Wastewater Treatment ApplicationsTreatmentRaju Kumar GuptaAssociate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India

Status of Sewage Treatment Plants at NCT of DelhiS K SinghProfessor & Dean, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Delhi Technological University, India

Water pollution due to uncontrolled urbanization, drastic growth in population, improved standards of living and dis-charge of untreated sewage in water bodies, is one of the most significant issues facing various countries across the globe including India at present.

In India the situation is severe to the point that there might be no water body at present that isn’t contaminated to some degree or the other. Wastewater in Delhi, the capital city and also one of the fastest growing metropolitan city in India, is discharged into the local water bodies without proper treatment which ultimately leads to the pol-lution of such water bodies and also causes groundwater pollution through wastewater seepage. To overcome this problem various sewage treatment plants (STPs), meeting the regulatory standards should be established for wastewater treatment before its disposal in the receiving water bodies. This paper gives an overview of the per-formance evaluation of various existing STPs in Delhi. A significant gap was also derived considering the sewage generation and actual treatment of sewage taking place in Delhi. Therefore, this paper will play an essential role in the further allocation of STPs in the city and also in safeguarding the health of people.

Real Time Monitoring & Troubleshooting of Wastewater Treatment PlantsAdarsh Water Business Specialist, Greenvironment Innovation & Marketing India (P) Ltd, India

Biotransformation of Cr(VI) by the Cyanobacterium synechocystis Sp.PUPCCC 62JIS Khattar Professor, Botany, Punjabi University, India

QA/QC Water Quality Analysis- Checking the CorrectnessJagdish Kumar BassinChief Scientist & Head (Retd), CSIR-NEERI Delhi Zonal Lab, Independent Consultant, Water Quality Modelling, India

Why Biological Filtration Systems are the Best Solutions for Wastewater Treat-ment under Most ConditionsRahul ChabbraCEO, Transchem Agritech Pvt Ltd

Environmental Pollution Monitoring of Amritsar, Punjab (India)Jatinder Kaur KatnoriaProfessor, Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, In-dia

Bioprocess Engineering for Biodegradation of Pharmaceutical CompoundsGarima KaushikAssistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Central University of Rajasthan, India

The occurrence of emerging compounds in the environment has become an issue of concern due to their grow-ing concentrations in environmental matrices. Pharmaceutical compounds including, surfactants, illicit drugs, endocrine disruptors, are among the few which have been identified as an issue of immediate concern. These compounds have entered from various sources and find their way to non-target organisms.

Hence, proper degradation and elimination of these pharmaceutical compounds is very essential. Among the various physicochemical degradation methods, microbial degradation has been identified as a most sustainable way for degradation of pharmaceutical compounds. Optimization of culture conditions significantly enhances the degradation process. In the present study, the biodegrdation of Ibuprofen (as a representative of commonly used and found drug in environment), was carried out using indegenous bacterial species Micrococcus yunnanensis. Preliminary analysis of biodegradation was carried out through measurement of inorganic and organic load as COD analysis followed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and Mass spectoscopy (LCTOF). Process optimization played a key role in improving the culture conditions for bioremediation. During screening experiments the isolated strain was capable of reducing 39% of COD (100mg/l of IBP) in 36 hours. Taguchi ap-proach was applied to optimize process conditions and it was found that the degradation of Ibuprofen was scaled upto 90% with significant COD reduction (98%) at pH 8, temperature 25°C, rpm 200, inoculum size (2% w/v), with in 12 hours. Degradation of Ibuprofen was obtained from 92.37 mg L-1 to 8.43 mg L-1 at optimized conditions fol-lowing demethylation as main degradation pathway as obtained in MS. Hence, this study proofs great potential of indegenous bacterial species Micrococcus yunnanensis for biodegradation of emerging pollutants when applied in optimized culture conditions.

Environmental Effect of Brine Rejects Disharge Back to Sea from Desalination PlantsSudhakar DeenadayalanSenior Project Manager, Richardson & Cruddas, India

Engineered Bioremediation of Polluted Sites under Arid and Semi-arid ConditionBrijesh Kumar YadavAssociate Professor, Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Public Health in India-Issues and Challenges, the Way ForwardPK SasidharanFormer Professor and Head, Govt Medical College Kozikode

Oral Presentation

Abstracts

Effect of Pendimethalin on Photosynthetic Pigments and Nitrogen Uptake of Cy-anobacterium Desmonostoc Muscorum PUPCCC 405.1Manzoor Ahmad Bhat1, D.P. Singh1 and J.I.S Khattar1

1Department of Botany, Punjabi University, India

Weeds are the most effective competitors of agricultural crop plants for water, nutrients, light and space, resulting in the reduction of crop yield. The use of herbicides for combating damage caused by weeds in crop fields has increased enormously. The excessive use of herbicides results its accumulation in soil which exhibits adverse impact on growth and development of abundantly growing non target cyanobacteria. The cyanobacteria are an important component of microbial population in agricultural fields since they contribute to soil fertility as natural biofertilizer. During the present study, effect of pendimethalin on photosynthetic pigments and nitrogen uptake of cyanobacterium desmonostoc muscorum PUPCCC 405.10 has been studied. The results revealed that the her-bicide affected photosynthetic pigments of the test organism in a dose dependent manner. On day 6, the acetone soluble chlorophyll a pigment was decreased in the range 12-85% while carotenoids decreased in the range of 8-45% by 4-12ppm herbicide. The water soluble pigments showed the similar effect, the phycocyanin pigment decreased in the range of 25-85% while allophycocyanin and phycoerythrin 13-85%. Nitrogen uptake of the test organism was also affected by herbicide in a dose dependent manner. On 6 h, the nitrate uptake decreased in the range of 39-65%, the herbicide showed more pronounced effect on nitrite uptake (37-83% decrease) than other nitrogen sources.

A Comparative Study Between Fenton and Electro Fenton Processes on Remov-al of Carbon Based Pollutant from Dye Intermediate WastewaterNibedita Pani1, Poornima Menonb2, Anantha Singh3

1Department of Science, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, India2,3Department of Civil Engineering, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar , India

Water pollution resulting from discharge of partial / not treated textile wastewater containing high Carbon based pollutants pose a huge threat to environment, eco system and human health. It is essential to remove Carbon based pollutants more effectively from industrial wastewater before discharging. Present study focuses on re-moval of Carbon based pollutant in particular COD by Fenton and Electro Fenton process. The study was carried out with high strength wastewater containing initial COD above 5000 mg/L. The major operating condition like pH was varied. The fraction removed (C/C0) by Fenton process and Electro Fenton process at different pH were evaluated. The pH was varied from 1.5 to 3.5 and maximum removal was obtained at pH 3.0 taking Ferrous to Hydrogen peroxide molar ratio as 1:1 and reaction time 60 minutes for COD removal in Fenton process whereas in Electro Fenton process the pH was varied from 2 to 3.5 and the fraction removed (C/C0) was maximum at pH 3 at an applied voltage 3V for a reaction time of 60 minutes. The result shows that at optimum pH 3, the fraction removed (C/C0) was 0.415 and 0.227 for Fenton and Electro-Fenton process respectively. The Electro Fenton process is an effective method for removal of COD from dye intermediate industrial wastewater.

Bioremediation Techniques- Comparison Based on Principle, Advantages, Lim-itation And ApplicationHimanshu Pandey1, Manoj Kumar2

1,2Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh,India

Environmental pollution is increasing continuously because of increasing population, their demands and many

unsafe practices that are generating waste. These pollutants are of serious environmental and human health concern. Bioremediation is one of the ways in neutralising these contaminations which include heavy metals, pesticides, greenhouse gasses and hydrocarbons. Bioremediation takes uses of microbes to naturally degrade, transform and sequester organic, inorganic, heavy metals and other pollutants. Microbes act on pollutants as one of their energy sources and thus are natural and eco friendly method of neutralising hazardous waste. Based on the method of treatment and collection of waste, bioremediation is carried in ex-situ and in-situ way, depending on several factor such as site characteristics, type of pollutant, concentration of pollutant and most importantly cost. Both these techniques have some merit and demerit over other and therefore it is crucial to choose such technique, which will eventually lead to innocuous level of contamination. There are different types of bioreme-diation techniques based on different principles such as phytoremediation, bioleaching, bioventing, bioreactor, land farming, compositing, rhizofiltration, biostimulation and bioaugmantation. Efficiency of these techniques is depending on different environmental factor which are maintained at optimal range. This review paper outlines different bioremediation techniques, their principle, advantages, limitation and their applications

Poster Presentation

Abstracts

Removal of Bisphenol a from Water by Sunlight Active ZnO@ZnHCFNanocompositesUma Shankar1, Manviri Rani2, Rachna1

1Department of Chemistry, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India2Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India

Bisphenol A (BPA), one of the pollutants in waste water is an endocrine-disruptors, carcinogen with genetic-tox-icity. Environmental concern of this contaminants required complete degradation by low-cost, efficient, cheap, and environmental friendly nanomaterials. Transition metal based nanoctalysts have shown their efficiency in the removal of such pollutants. In this study, potential of green synthesized ZnHCF@ZnO nanoparticles was tested for the photodegradation of environmental pollutant BPA. At the optimum concentration of 2 mg/L, 25 mg catalyst dose, neutral pH and sunlight irradiation, photodegradation of BPA was highest with ZnHCF@ZnO (97%) followed by undoped ZnHCF (88%) and ZnO (75%) within 12 h. BPA photodegradation followed well with the first order kinetics model and Langmuir-isotherms. Under sunlight, the BPA degradation rate and photocatalytic activity for doped was 3 times faster than that observed for undoped ZnHCF (0.087; 8) and 8 times than that of bared ZnO (0.0398; 17.4). The finding of small and nontoxic products like toluene and (Z)-3-hydroxyacrylaldehyde after GC-MS analysis supported the free radical based oxidation of large molecule of BPA. The doped ZnHCF@ZnO were found favorable for the separation of photo-induced electrons and holes, reducing the recombination of charges, and promoting the formation of hydroxyl-radicals and superoxides that degrade BPA.

Optimization Equilibrium and Kinetics Studies or Pararosaniline (Chloride) dye removal by a modified ”Eco Friendly” Sterculia Alata BiocharAshutosh Yadav1, R.k Sonwani1, Ganesh Swain1, Ram Sharan Singh1, Birendra Nath Rai11Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India

Sterculia alata, a vast agricultural waste is herein used as a precursor material for highly porous activated carbon production. Sterculia shell surface cleaned and dried in sunlight then shells were taken out and pulverized in a micro-pulverizing mill. The powder thus obtained was activated with H 2 SO 4 (75%) in 5:1 ratio [H 2 SO 4 volume (ml)/dried coconut powder mass (gm)] and carbonization of the sample in a “Split Tube Furnace Single Zone” reactor. The reactor was placed in a single zone tubular furnace and heated at a constant rate 19 °C/min and then held at carbonized temperature of 510°C for 1hr under 250 ml/min N 2 flow. The resulted activated carbon were washed with hot distilled water until the pH of filtrate water reached 7 to ensure complete removal of residual acid and other organic and mineral matters and then dried at 125°C for overnight. Physico-chemical characteristics such as elemental composition, surface area, functional groups and surface morphology of the activated carbon were analysed using elemental analyser, BET surface area analyser, FTIR spectroscopy and SEM analysis re-spectively. Batch adsorption experiments were performed to investigate the effects of dye concentration, adsor-bent dose, pH, rate of agitation (rpm), time and temperature. The adsorption parameters studied were: pH (2- 10), adsorbent dose (0.0005–0.003 g/50 mL), initial dye concentration (5-100mg/L), temperature (10–50°C), and time (.25-4hr), and incubator rpm (60-150). The surface area of the adsorbents was found to be 288.8m 2 /g for all samples. Adsorption capacity was increased with temperature and increases with increase of process contact time, while removal efficiency percentage decreased with the increasing of initial dye concentration. Decrease in pH of solution increase the adsorption capacity of adsorbent, also with increase in process temperature from 283.15 K to 323.15 K, adsorption capacity of adsorbent get increased significantly. The experimental analysis and kinetic study showed that the activated carbon developed from coconut shell is a promising activated carbon for removal of toxic dye.

Cultivation of Microalga Asterarcys Quadricellulare in Agriculture Waste Com-post for Carotenoid ProductionAlka Rajput1, D P Singh1, J I S Khattar1

1Department of Botany,Punjabi University Patiala, India

The aim of the present study was to cultivate Asterarcys quadricellulare in agriculture waste compost for carot-enoid production. Growth of test organism was compared in Chu-10 medium and different compost solution. The compost prepared from agriculture waste (rice straw, wheat straw, and leaf litter) was used to make compost solu-tions. The compost solution was prepared by suspending 10 gm of each compost in 100 mL distilled water and by agitating for 12 hours. The results revealed that the test microalga exhibited maximum biomass and carotenoid content in rice compost solution (RCS) and thus was selected for further study. Further the growth of microalga produced maximum biomass (0.85 mg-1 mL) and carotenoid (22.2 µg mg-1dry weight biomass) when grown in 25% rice compost solution agitated for 72 hours (25% RCS72). The growth and carotenoid of test microalga further increased to 1.2 mg-1 dry weight biomass mL-1 and 34.2 µg mg-1dry weight biomass, respectively, when 5 mM phosphate supplemented in 25%RCS72. These results indicated that above culture conditions may be exploited for cultivation of Asterarcys quadricellulare microalga for carotenoids production.

Evaluation of Probability Distribution of The Ratio of Intensity in the Gas Cells of Primary Ozone Standard (SRP 43)Ansu James2, Radhakrishnan S R1, Chhemendra Sharma1, Devesh Kumar Shukla1

1Environmental Sciences and Biomedical Metrology Division, CSIR-National Physical Labo-ratory, Dr.K.S.Krishnan Marg, New Delhi, India2Department of Physics, Kannur University, Payyanur, India

Ground level Ozone concentration is an important air quality parameter which is monitored and reported world-wide. The increase of ground level Ozone is of concern because of its impact on human health, crop, vegetation, oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere and climate. The NIST Standard Reference Photometer, serial number 43(SRP43) has been setup at CSIR, National Physical Laboratory-India (NPLI) to maintain quality assurance and traceability in ground level ozone measurements in the Country and South Asian Region. The measurement of ozone is based on the absorption of radiation at 253.65 nm by ozone/air mixture in the gas cells of the instrument. The optical path length, ozone absorption crossection, ratio of intensities of the light at the gas cells, temperature and pressure of the gas cells are the major uncertainty contributors in the measurement of ozone by SRP. In this work effort has been made to identify the distribution of the repeatability of the ratio of intensities of the SRP. The repeatability of the ratio of intensity has been estimated by the measurement of this ratio with no flow of reference air or ozone air mixtures within the cells. Several data sets collected on different days have been used. It is found that the repeatability of the ratio of intensities follows the Gaussian distribution for the SRP 43.

24-Epibrassinolide Pre-Treatment Regulates Alkaline Induced Oxidative Stress in Rice SeedlingsMansi Sharma1, Harminder Pal Singh1, Daizy R. Batish2

1Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India2Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

We investigated the anti- stress effects of 24-epibrassinolide (EBL), an active brassinosteroid, on rice plants ex-periencing alkaline stress. Seedlings were pre-treated with 0.01 µM EBR by root-drench for 30 minutes and then, transferred to NaHCO3 solution at concentrations of 0 and 25 mM and sampled, 5-d after treatments.

Results showed that the growth parameters including dry weight (DW), root and shoot length reduced under alka-line stress whereas EBL application alleviated the inhibitory effects of alkaline stress on the total root and shoot length, compared with NaHCO3 treatment. However, the O2- generation rate, H2O2 and malondialdehyde (MDA) contents were found to increase under NaHCO3 treatment, compared with NaHCO3 + EBL treated seedlings. Also, the activities of antioxidant enzymes, including ascorbate peroxidase (APX), catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) were significantly altered. Based on these results, we conclude that EBL plays a positive role in regulating rice growth and development under alkaline stress.

Physico-Chemical Characteristics and Genotoxicity Assessment of Water Sam-ples of Buddha Nullah, LudhianaJaskaran Kaur1, Varinder Kaur2, Jatinder Kaur Katnoria1

1Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India2Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

The present study was carried out to determine the physico-chemical characteristics and heavy metal (cad-mium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, nickel and zinc) contents of water samples of Buddh Nullah, a tributary of Sutlej river, flowing through Ludhiana, Punjab (India). Release of various types of pollutants into this water body is a serious matter of concern as the pollutants like heavy metals can pose harmful health impacts to the people in the vicinity. The heavy metal assessment of water samples conducted using flame atomic absorption spectrophotometer showed that cobalt and lead were higher than the maximum permissible limits (MPL) values recommended by various national and international agencies. Other physico-chemical analysis of Buddha Nullah water was done using standard procedures. Genotoxicity assessment was carried out by using Allium cepa root chromosomal aberration assay. The squash preparations from root tip cells of Allium cepa revealed various types of chromosomal abberations including c-mitosis, delayed anaphase, stickiness, laggards, vagrants, chromosomal breaks, chromatin bridge and ring chromosomes. Percentage of delayed anaphases and stickiness dominated among physiological aberrations whereas chromatin bridges and fragments among clastogenic abberations. The present study suggests to implement the strict regulations against the pollution sources in order to safeguard the health of people living in the vicinity of Buddha Nullah.

Aerosol Vertical Profile During Diwali Over the KanpurDevender Sethi1, Radhakrishnan S R1,2, Chhemendra Sharma1,2

1Academy of scientific and innovative research (AcSIR) at campus of CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, India2Council of scientific and industrial research (CSIR), National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi, India

Aerosols concentration due to the various anthropogenic activities is extremely high over Central IGP (Indo-Gan-getic Plain). Aerosols concentration rises mainly during the Diwali time. As Diwali comes during the Winter time the aerosol concentration rises within the boundary layer near to surface. The favorable metrological conditions during this period help in degrading the air quality. In Present study, we have discussed the effect on various optical properties of the aerosols pre ( 2ndNov,2013 ), during (3rdNov,2013) and post-Diwali ( 4th Nov 2013) period. The 3 profiles has been analysed for Micro-pulse lidar network version 2.0 data available from https://mplnet.gsfc.nasa.gov for the Diwali period of 2-4 November during 2013 over the Kanpur site. Further the aerosol optical depth (AOD) and aerosol angstrom exponent (AAE) has also been analysed during month available from AERONET site. At last, aerosol size distribution data have also been used to study modes of aerosols during

the event.. The backscatter coefficient of 0.010 kmsr-1 at 532nm shows in figure (a) the rising concentration of aerosols between 1-2km during the day before the Diwali (Fig (a)). During the Diwali, backscatter reaches the significant value of 0.013 kmsr-1 during Diwali night. As the atmospheric conditions are stable during the winter time, the backscatter increases further to a maximum value of 0.015 kmsr-1 (shown in Fig (c)). There also the corresponding rise in the AOT value of 1.978. The bimodal distribution of the aerosol.

Effect of Rice Straw Burning on Physico-Chemical Properties and Enzymatic Activities of SoilSunita Yadav1, Sandeep Kumar1, Manoj Srivastava1 1Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, India

Soil samples were collected from three different depths in soil (0-5cm, 5-15cm and 15-30cm) at the time of har-vesting and after burning from rice fields. Three different sites were selected, first sampling was carried out from the burning sites of Panipat district (villages-Waisari and Jatal), second from Karnal district (villages-Trawadi and Tikhana) of Haryana and third from the field of IARI, New Delhi to study the effects of crop residues burning on physico-chemical and enzymatic properties of soil. Samples were air dried and sieved to 2mm for further analysis. It was observed that the pH, EC and organic carbon were increases from 8.45 (before burning) to 8.6 (after burning), 0.49 ms/cm (before burning) to 0.78 ms/cm (after burning) and 0.49 to 0.65% respectively. The available N, P and K slightly increases after burning from 190 to 240 kg/ha, 35 to 40 kg/ha and 420 to 450 kg/ha respectively. The enzymatic activities of dehydrogenases and ureases also decreased after burning from 0.97 to 0.30µg TPF/g/h and 41.36 to 21.13 µg NH4+ released/g/5h respectively and it may be due to the drastic reduc-tion in microbial population. The emission of particulate matter and smoke from burning of rice residues also have adverse effect on environment and health of living beings. Hence, it is urgent need to aware and educate farmers about the ill-effects of crop residue burning.

Pre-Treatment of Hospital Effluents and Recommendations For Suitable Treat-ment TechnologiesNadeem Ahmad Khan, Chandra Pratap Singh1, Sirajuddin Ahmed1

1Civil Engineering Department, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

Delhi, being the capital city of India is a major hub of health care facilities. There are around 48,000 beds in health care facilities in the city as per Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC). The average number of beds per 1000 inhabitants in Delhi is 2.58, this average is increasing day by day due to rapid development in the health care facilities which has put Delhi among cities with advanced facilities in the country. Since, it provides better health care facilities, thus patients from all over India comes here for treatment. The average occupancy of hospitals is around 75% -80% throughout the year. The health care is one of the major water consuming sectors. The major water consuming units in a hospital are wards, kitchen, laundry, laboratories, operation theatres, haemodialysis units etc. The water consumption in a hospital varies from 400-1200 liters/bed/day (Al-ajlouni et al., 2013). In America, the amount of hospital effluent generated is approximately 1000 liters/person/day. Through a question-naire survey conducted in hospitals of Delhi, it is found that the average water consumption in hospitals of Delhi is 500-600 liters/bed/day. The quantum of wastewater generated from hospitals is huge and poses a great threat to environment and thus human health. The effluent generated from these units constitutes domestic wastewater as well as infectious and hazardous wastewater since it contains pathogenic microbes, drug residues, chemicals, biological tissues, cultures, chemical toxins etc. There are certain potential implications posed by the untreated hospital effluent like microbial resistance, genotoxic and teratogenic effects, toxic effects, ecotoxicity, DNA dam-age, persistence, bioaccumulation etc. Keywords: health care facilities, consuming sectors, hospitals, microbial resistance, potential implications, DNA damage, bioaccumulation etc.

Agriculture Waste ManagementRishab Pawar, Swapana Sepehya, Anil Kumar, Rakesh SharmaDepartment of Soil Science and Water Management, College of Horticulture &amp;Forestry, Neri

Agricultural waste consists of organic wastes produced as a result of various agricultural operations such as crop residues, animal wastes etc. Burning of agricultural biomass residue can cause major health hazard, causing exposure to extremely high levels of particulate matter concentration to people. In addition, it causes losses of essential nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur and potassium from the top layer of soil, making the land uncongenial for agriculture. As these contain biodegradable hemicelluloses, cellulose etc. which on decom-position have a tremendous potential to provide nutrients to plants. The proper management of agricultural waste can contribute in a significant way by providing healthy environment for crop and farm animals; can reduce the need for commercial fertilizers while providing the other nutrients for crop production. The waste produce from animal waste or from crop residues called biomass has a good potential to convert into energy in related energy sector. These substances are widely available on earth’s surface can be a good source of energy or can be con-verted into useful products. Composting is the best method in which agricultural solid waste can be recycled by the decomposition of organic matter present in it through aerobic and anaerobic biochemical processes. Hence, Agriculture waste management is an eco friendly approach through which we can convert all organic waste into a product which is rich in nutrient content, can lower dependence on chemical fertilizers thereby, protecting our environment and can also solve emerging energy crises problems.

An Inventory of Invasive Exotic Plants of PunjabSandeep Singh1, Harminder Pal Singh1, Daizy R. Batish2

1Department of Environment Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India2Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

In modern world, increasing global trade had led to the accidental or deliberate introduction of plant species of a specific biogeographical region to another region.Some of the alien flora persist along with time by adapting to new environments and pose a major threat to the native vegetation of invaded ecosystems. After the introduction of green revolution in Punjab during 1960-70s, the monocultures of high yielding varieties (HYV) of wheat and rice has resulted in the loss of genetic variability, traditional crops, native floral biodiversity and soil fertility. All these ecological disturbances and degradation have promoted the establishment of many exotic alien species. In the present study, we have focused on the compilation of an authenticated catalogue of such exotic species of Punjab along with the information about their ecological attributes. During the deliberations of the conference, it is proposed to discuss the status of such flora in the state of Punjab.

Effect of Monocrotophos on Photosynthesis and Photochemical Activities of Synechocystis PUPCCC 64Manpreet Kaur1, J I S KHATTAR1, D P SINGH1

Department of Botany, Punjabi University, Patiala, India

Effect of LD50 dose of monocrotophos (275 ppm) on photosynthesis and photochemical activities of Synechocys-tis PUPCCC64 has been studied for a period of 144 h. The effect of pesticide on photosynthesis in terms of O2 evolution was observed within one minute with 24% decrease in photosynthesis after 1 minute and the negative effect of the pesticide increased up to 6 h (60% decrease in photosynthesis) while on 144 h the negative effect of the pesticide decreased to 32% from 60% on 6 h. On 6 h, activity of PS I, PS II and whole chain decreased by

64%, 67%, 69% respectively, in the presence of pesticide which lowered down to 47%, 42%, 44% on 144 h. It indicated that maximum effect of pesticide on these parameters was observed on 6 h and after that the organism was able to cope up with pesticide stress.

Toxic Impact of Anilofos on Some Physiological Parameters of the Cyanobacte-rium Desmonostoc Muscorum Pupccc 405.10Yodha Singh, D P Singh1, J I S Khattar1

Research scholar, Department of Botany, Punjabi University, Patiala

Present study deals with the toxicological impact of the herbicide anilofos on a diazotrophic rice field cyanobac-terium Desmonostoc muscorum PUPCCC 405.10. This cyanobacterium tolerated anilofos upto 8 ppm. LD25 (2.5 ppm) and LD50 (5.5 ppm) anilofos affected growth, protein content, dry weight biomass, photosynthesis, photosynthetic pigments and photochemical activities in a dose dependent manner. Although all the photosyn-thetic pigments were affected by the herbicide, maximum effect was observed on chlorophyll a (46.3% reduc-tion) followed by the carotenoids, phycoerythrin, allophycocyanin and phycocyanin (42.6, 28.0, 28.5 and 30.4% decrease). The effect of the herbicide on photosynthetic pigments resulted in 51% decrease in photosynthetic O2 evolution. Studies on the affect of herbicide on photochemical activity demonstrated that PS II was severely affected as compared to PS I and photosynthetic whole chain activity. Effect of anilofos on respiration was very less as compare to photosynthesis. Decrease in the photosynthetic rate resulted in decreased nitrogen source uptake, as revealed by reduced nitrate (56.8%), nitrite (51.4%) and ammonium (31.4%) uptake. The suppres-sion of photosynthesis under the influence of anilofos stress appears to be responsible for low levels of nitrogen assimilation by the organism.

Estimation and Chemical Characterization of Total Suspended Particulate Matter (TSPM)Neeru Bala1, Jatinder Kaur Katnoria1

1Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

Air pollution on account of various domestic, industrial and transportation activities has been widely witnessed over the globe for past few decades. Accumulating number of vehicles, increasing population with demands in aggravating energy consumption, unplanned residential, industrial and economic development further have led to increase of air pollution in urban areas. Conseqently, diverse mutagens enter the ambient air. Various air pollut-ants present in air, especially at the respirable level, can cause respiratory diseases like asthma and bronchitis as well as cardiovascular abnormalities leading to death. Accumulation of toxic compounds including heavy metals, inorganic fertilizers, pesticides, volatile compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in air is a serious matter of concern because these contaminants have potency to induce direct deleterious effects to human gene pool. Considering this, the present study was planned to evaluate the total suspended particulate matter (TSPM) in am-bient air (approx. 60 feet) and at respirable level (approx. 5 feet). The high volume sampler was placed near the main gate of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar for collection of TSPM at ground/respirable level and at the top floor of library building for ambient TSPM sample. The samples were collected for 8 h using high volume sampler at flow rate 1.15 m3/min. The content of TSPM was found to be 39.93 µg/m3 for ambient air and 247.843 µg/m3 at respirable level. The TSPM was further analyzed for various heavy metals like copper, lead, nickel and zinc.

Aerosol Optical Properties in Post Monsoon Season: Study Over Lower Western HimalayasJaswant1,2, Shishir Kumar Singh1,2, Radhakrishnan S. R1,2, D.K. Shukla1, C. Sharma1,2

1Environmental Sciences & Biomedical Metrology Division, CSIR - National Physical Labora-tory, New Delhi, India.2Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - National Physical Labora-tory Campus, New Delhi, India

The lidar measurements of vertical distribution of physical and optical properties of lower tropospheric aerosols during the post monsoon season of the year 2018 over Palampur, Himachal Pradesh are presented in this study. Palampur has pristine environmental conditions with very less pollution sources and most of the measurements were taken in relatively clean air dominated by the wind coming from north west of the lidar station. Results from the lidar data obtained from November 16, 2018 to November 22, 2018 are presented in this paper and results shows relatively low loading of the aerosols in the atmosphere. The lidar derived aerosol optical properties (at 355 nm) are compared with the aerosol properties obtained from Microtops Sunphotometer and the data obtained from the MODIS and CALIPSO satellite. The daily mean aerosol backscatter coefficient value varies from mini-mum 1.9E-5 km-1 sr-1 to maximum 5.98E-3 km-1 sr-1. The values of the mean depolarization ratio were varying from minimum 0.058 to maximum 0.12 during the observation period. To understand the physical and chemical processes happening in that area, we also determined the planetary boundary layer (PBL) height.

Composting of Segregated Waste for Sustainable Soil Health And CropProductionMohammad Arshad1 ,D P Singh1, J I S Khattar1

Department of Botany, Punjabi University, Patiala, India

Waste disposal is one of the most crucial problems of our country related to urban waste management. Enormous amount of organic wastes are generated from plants, animals and industrial activities in day to day life. Segre-gation of waste can be done on the basis of being biodegradable or non-biodegradable. Biodegradable waste is breakdown naturally with exposure to microorganism under aerobic conditions. Segregated waste composting has provided a safe and effective way to accelerate the decomposition and stabilization of component of waste leading to production of compost for soil amendment or as an organic nutrient source. Therefore, instead of disposing, waste can be used as source of organic wastes after effectively recycling to meet the nutritional re-quirement of crops. Composting of segregated waste is one of the best option for utilizing the embedded nutrients for better soil health and crop growth, viz a viz for conserving energy, improving the fertilizer use efficiency in revitalizing and restoring the soil fertility and reviving the microbial activities.

Vertical Profile of Aerosol and Clouds Optical Properties Obtained Using Raman Lidar Over PalampurUnnimaya M2, Radhakrishnan S R1, Shishir Kumar Singh1,3 , Jaswant1,3, Chhemendra Shar-ma 1

1Environmental Sciences and Biomedical Metrology Division, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India2Department of Physics, Kannur University, Payyanur, India3Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India

Vertical profiling of optical properties of aerosol and clouds is very important in understanding its effect of earth radiative budget. Lidar is unique in providing the vertical profile of aerosol and clouds with good spatial and

temporal resolution. The profile of optical properties (Backscattering coefficient, Lidar ratio and depolarisation ratio) of aerosol and clouds over a high altitude is studied using a Raman Lidar. The data of two days 10th June , 2016 and 10th November, 2016 is studied in this work. The maximum and minimum values of backscatter co-efficient and depolarisation ratio on 10/06/2016 are 9.31E-06 km-1 sr-1 and 2.63E-09 km-1 sr-1 and 0.380625 and 0.01233. And on 10/11/2016 it was found that the values were 2.57E-05 km-1 sr-1 and 1E-09 km-1 sr-1 and 0.1249 and 0.04292 respectively. The uncertainty in the backscatter coefficient and depolarisation values for these days is also calculated. The values of Lidar ratio and depolarisation ratio are used to identify the type and phase of clouds and also the type of aerosol observed during the observation period.

Climate Change and People’s Perception: Experiences of Baramura Hill, TripuraManoj Debbarma Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

This study tried to explore the perception of climate change by considering the socio-demographic dimensions of Baramura hill in Tripura. This study included 148 and 100 respondents from South Hodrai and Purba Sar-du karkari Village respectively. Adaptation strategies used by the Community/Villagers in response to climate change were also documented. Majority of the respondents were farmer and collect Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP). Almost all respondents perceived the phenomena of climate change. This study used both quantitative and qualitative method to analyzed data. Using several statistical tools and doing paraphrased translation of key information. Study also finds that the perception of climate change varies depending on the socio-demographic dimensions. The overall perception of the villagers toward change in temperature-related events and precipitation is high. Considering the adaptation strategies based on knowledge-adaption index, the adaptation in response to climate change is at medium level. Agro-forestry, crop rotation, collection of NTFP and other organic products were popular. This study recommend a need for scientists, Government and Non-Government agents and other stakeholders to support efforts by farmers to adapt to effects of climate change through technological, policy and financial interventions with an aim of improving livelihoods and food security.

Evaluation of Carbon Dioxide Flux and Meteorological Parameters Over DelhiShishir Kumar Singh1,2, Richa Singh1, Radhakrishnan S R1, Jaswant1,2, Chhemendra Shar-ma1

1Environmental Science and Biomedical Metrology Division, CSIR-NPL2AcSIR- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research

Atmospheric CO2 has become the largest contributor among all anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) for warming of global climate. The Main sources of CO2 are transport, building & construction, energy and house-holds’ sector. Sometimes, Vegetation (urban parks, scattered trees, vegetated roof tops) removes CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis during daytime and releases a fraction of it through respiration at night in the urban areas but its small presence makes it less effective. Atmospheric CO2 has been monitored at National Physical Laboratory, Delhi of the period from Dec 2012 to Aug 2014 by eddy co-variance (EC) technique in which open-path type infrared gas analyzer was used. In this study, we observed that monthly CO2 average concentra-tion was highest in Oct 2013 (418.2 ppm) and lowest in July 2014 (305.089 ppm) and the CO2 flux was highest in July 2014 (0.0783 mg/m2/s) and lowest (-0.091 mg/m2/s) in March 2013. A positive correlation between CO2 Concentration and CO2 Flux was observed. However, CO2 concentrations were found to have anti-correlation with rainfall and temperature. The water vapor concentration was highest in July 2013 (18.84 g/m3) and lowest in January 2014 (0.48 g/m3). The Latent Heat Flux was highest in Aug 2014 (109.69 W/m2) and lowest in Dec 2013 (19.42 W/m2). The Net Radiation was highest in Jan 2014 (153.63 W/m2) and Lowest in December 2013 (16.85 W/m2).

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