Workshop on “INDO-UK Workshop on Waste Water treatment: Approaches, Management and Capacity building” Date: 03-07-2019 to 05-07-2019
Chandigarh July 5, 2019
A 3-day long Workshop on “INDO-UK Workshop on Waste Water treatment:
Approaches, Management and Capacity building” at Department of CIL/SAIF/UCIM, Panjab University, Chandigarh concluded successfully, here today.
The workshop was a joint collaborative effort of PU and University Of Hull, UK. Prof. S. K. Mehta, Director, SAIF/CIL, PU, the Indian Coordinator of the workshop delineated the main objectives of the workshop focusing on the approaches, methodology, management and capacity building for dealing with the waste water treatment processes. He presented the brief idea of the workshop alongwith highlighting the instrumentation facilities available at the SAIF/CIL, PU.
The workshop was presided over by Guest of honour, Dr. S. K. Vasudeva,
Scientific Consultant Defence technologies, Office of Principal Scientific Advisor to Govt. of India. He expressed his satisfaction over the idea of the workshop that is a current alarming issue. Moreover, he also shared the highlights of the Jal Shakti Abhiyan for water conservation and water security, a campaign initiated by the Govt. of India owing to motivation from our Honourable Prime Minister, Sh.Narendra Modi where the main focus will be on water stressed districts and blocks in India. The
campaign will run through citizen participation.
Dr.Vasudeva expressed his content that the workshop is fulfilling one of the
purpose by involving academia, industry for creating awareness and dealing with the water reclamation issues.
Prof. Devinder Mehta, Dean Sciences, PU welcomed the UK participants,
representatives of academia and industry.
Prof. S. S. Marwaha, Chairman, Panjab Pollution Control Board, also the Guest of Honour, explained the importance of accurate water sampling which is the backbone for the concept of the waste water treatment. Dr. P. Dalai (IFS) highlighted the need for a sensitive balance between the academia and the industry in dealing with the global problem of water scarcity.
Prof. Alex o. Ibhadon, UK coordinator of the workshop stressed on the need for the awareness and the capacity building for the wastewater remediation applications. He also thanked the Indian Coordinator for the hospitality and organisation of the workshop.
Mr. Atin, a representative of the British Council expressed his satisfaction
over the organisation of the workshop and enquired the audience with the various fellowships and the grants/funding sponsored by the British Council On the various social causes. Prof. Gang Pan, Nottingham Trent University, UK presented a plenary lecture sharing his expertise on the ecological restoration and waste water remediation processes. He thanked the organisers for this opportunity. Additionally, among the workshop participants, the major proportion is constituted by the private
National and International Companies viz., Smart Storm Pvt. Ltd. UK and Ecological Concepts Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.
The main aim of this workshop was to create awareness by bringing the academia and industry altogether at one platform regarding the alarming issue of the waste water treatment and develop effective management and capacity building in the related field. The workshop consisted of three phases, in the first phase the participants were exposed to basic approaches of treating the waste water viz., physical, chemical and biological methods. In the second phase, special techniques and problems in management
of the issue were emphasized. In the third and the final phase, the effective measures to develop capacity building for the stricter governance and allocation of resources for dealing with the issue of the wastewater were discussed.
In the Valedictory function, the workshop was presided over by Guest
of honors, Mr. Harish Saini, Executive Engineer and Mr. Shailendra Singh,
Superitending Engineer, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh. They highlighted the efforts of Panjab University in bringing this problem to the front alongwith the suggestive solutions that can be practiced in dealing with the global problem of wastewater treatment.
The valedictory address was delivered by Dr. P. Shanmugan, Senior Principal Scientist, CLRI, Chennai who expressed satisfaction over the active participation of the academia and industry followed by the successful completion of the workshop. He emphasized that such research workshops on such a topic need to be organized very often and the outcomes should be documented to generate an action plan. He also pointed out about
the deliberations achieved and key points discussed during the workshop.
Dr. A.O. Ibhadon, UK Coordinator, felt contented, happy, fulfilled, and said that he thoroughly enjoyed this workshop, the lectures, presentations and interaction during the workshop. He thanked Prof. S.K. Mehta and the organizing team for organizing such a wonderful and informative workshop.
The participants also provided their feedback on the content, usefulness and other aspects of the three day workshop. As many as 90 participants, mainly early career researchers and scientists of various academic institutes and industries from both India and UK participated in the workshop. The participants were seen highly enthusiastic and interactive during whole time span of the 3-days long workshop and lot of deliberations were done during the workshop.
The concluding remarks of the valedictory function were delivered by Prof. S. K. Mehta, at PU Chandigarh. He discussed about the achievements of the workshop, the success of the present workshop, and the initiative of Panjab University in joining hands with the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh for providing real solutions to the engraving problem of waste water in Chandigarh.
The main aim of this workshop was to create awareness by bringing the academia and industry altogether at one platform regarding the alarming issue of the waste water treatment and develop effective management and capacity building in the related field. The workshop consisted of three phases, in the first phase the participants were exposed to basic approaches of treating the waste water viz., physical, chemical and biological methods. In the second phase, special techniques and problems in management
of the issue were emphasized. In the third and the final phase, the effective measures to develop capacity building for the stricter governance and allocation of resources for dealing with the issue of the wastewater were discussed.
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