Nagpur, 08 Sep (HS): CSIR-National Environmental

Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI), as the Stockholm Convention

Regional Centre (SCRC-India) and its Sophisticated Environmental Analytical Facility

(SEAF), conducted a five-day Capacity Building Training Programme on

“Monitoring and Assessment of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the

Environment” during 1–5 September 2025 for 25 officials of Central and State

Pollution Control Boards under the GEF-UNEP project on POPs.

The programme began with a welcome by Dr S Venkata

Mohan, Director, CSIR-NEERI, followed by an overview by Dr A Ramesh Kumar,

Principal Scientist. Dr M P Patil, Head, SHWM Division, emphasised hazardous

chemicals management, while Dr Sanjeev Kumar Singh, Head, SEAF, explained

advanced analytical instruments for POPs monitoring.

Dr K P Prathish and Dr V Ajay (CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram),

Dr Paromita Chakraborty (SRM University, Chennai), Dr Ramasamy (C-MET,

Hyderabad), Dr D K Patel (CSIR-IITR), Dr P Sivaperumal (ICMR-NIOH), Dr Kavitha

Gandhi, Dr S K Singh, Dr A Ramesh Kumar, Dr R J Krupadam, Dr N N Rao, Dr Ronnie

Rex, and Ishan Singh (CSIR-NEERI) delivered speeches on different related

subjects including POPs monitoring and assessment, pesticidal-POPs, PFAS,

emerging POPs, dioxins, furans, DDT and PCB inventory, hazardous chemicals in

textiles, ambient air and stack monitoring, analytical methods (GC-MS/MS,

GC-HR-MS), and health implications.

Participants also gained hands-on training in method

development, validation, and quality assurance.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar