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The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of India is a statutory organization under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Mo.E.F.C.C.). It was established in 1974 under the Water (Prevention and Control of pollution) Act, 1974.
Several AQI monitoring stations in Delhi crossed 450 on Wednesday morning, entering a category the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) refers to as “severe-plus”.
The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of India, annually publish National City Rating under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan scheme. The rating includes around 500 cities, covering 72 percent of the urban population in India.
Its Kheroj-Vautha stretch was named by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) as among the most polluted river stretches in India. [ 70 ] Further polluted by the Ahmedabad civic body's failure to build a sewage treatment plant in Motera .
The standards and the timeline for implementation are set by the Central Pollution Control Board under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. [1] The standards, based on European regulations were first introduced in 2000. Progressively stringent norms have been rolled out since then.
Delhi Pollution Control Committee was established in 1991 by central government and works with Central Pollution Control Board and National Green Tribunal to control the pollution in the capital. [6] The Committee was established to tackle environmental degradation and pollution in Delhi by monitoring and regulating air and water pollution ...
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) reported that as of 2016, there were 746 industries directly depositing wastewater into the Ganga, which is the largest river in India. This wastewater contains heavy metals such as lead , cadmium , copper , chromium , zinc , and arsenic , which negatively affect both aquatic life as well as human health.
While he was the member secretary of the Central Pollution Control Board during 1979 – 1980, he was also a visiting professor for environmental engineering at the University of Roorkee. [citation needed] In July 2011, he became a Hindu sannyasi and Swami Gyanswaroop Sanand. [3]