Amity University Gurugram hosted an International Symposium on Air Pollution – Causes, Mitigation & Strategic Planning. The noted scientists, environmentalists and the other experts across the globe ascertained the potent causative factors for the enormous threat of air pollution to the modern civilization and its rational curbing and remedial measures.
Chairing this notable event, Dr. Aseem Chauhan, Chancellor, Amity University Gurugram, said:“ Amity University is committed to bringing together the best experts from around the world and India. To be a part of the solutions to the devastating air pollution problem, we have identified key sources and pollution solutions over the last years through our centre for air pollution".
Vice Chancellor, Amity University Gurugram, Dr. P.B Sharma, said, “Our efforts on Air pollution studies are further strengthened by NASA Aeronet that is installed in our ACOAST (Amity Centre for Ocean Atmospheric Science and Technology)that has enabled us to study aerosol particles ranging from 1 nano-gram to 1000 microgram sizes and trace the trajectories of aerosol travel from as far as the Oil Producing Arabic countries.”
Delivering his keynote address, Dr Kirk R Smith, said that “Household pollution if effectively cut down shall alone solve much of the air pollution in India”. He also emphasized that we need to emulate some of the best practices from China, Singapore and New York to make NCAP more effective".
Dr Arthur Frank said Air Quality has a direct bearing on human health and should be given at most priority in India. Now, that air pollution has assumed such alarming proportions.
Dr Alena Bartonova shared the best practices of EU clean air program which laid great emphasizes on effective implementation of air quality standards.
The notable speakers on the panel included Dr Kirk R Smith (Berkeley University), Dr. Arthur Frank (Drexel University, Philadelphia), Dr. Alena Bartonova (Norwegian Institute for air research center), Dr. M. Mohapatra (DG of IMD and Earth Science department, GOI), Professor Mukesh Khare (IIT, Delhi), Professor Dr. Gufran Baig (IITM, Pune), Dr Qamar Rahman, Distinguished Scientist, AUUP, Lucknow Campus, Dr P Kakkar, Head, CSIR – IITR, Lucknow and Dr. Sumit Sharma, Director Earth Sciences, TERI.