National level Workshop
A National level Workshop on “Minamata
Convention and Inventorisation of Mercury in India” funded by UNDP was
organized by CSIR National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur
during 04-05 December 2018 at IIT Madras Auditorium, IC & SR Building,
Chennai, Tamilnadu in collaboration with Ministry of Environment and Forest
& Climate Change and Global Environment
Facility.
Background
of the workshop
The
Minamata Convention on Mercury is a legally-binding multilateral environmental
agreement under the aegis of UN Environment that aims to protect human health
and environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and
mercury compounds. The Government of
India signed the Minamata Convention on September 30, 2014 and the ratification
was accepted on February 07, 2018. Organizations working with UNDP on improvement of mercury
management in India and partnering for the workshop are IIT Madras, CSIR-NEERI,
CSIR-CIMFR, Mott MacDonald.
The Workshop aims to introduce Minamata
Convention on Mercury and Inventorisation project and to provide platform for
exchange of expert views on priorities and personal interactions among
participants.
About 100 participants from various chemicals
and lights manufacturing industries, industrial associations concerned with
mercury, Officials from central Ministry, State pollution
control board officials, academic institutions, industrial waste managements
across the country
The inaugural function was
addressed by ShriRitesh Kumar Singh, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment
and Forest & Climate Change, Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Director CSIR National Environmental Engineering Research
Institute, Nagpur, Ms. Nadia Rasheed, Dy. Country Director, UNDP, New Delhi,
Er. N. SateeshBabu, Head, Chemicals & Waste Management, UNDP, New Delhi,
Prof. S. Mohan, IIT Madras. At the end of the function Dr. S.K. Goyal,
Scientist & Head, CSIR-NEERI, Delhi Zonal Centre thanked the gathering.
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