Central Polluti Board
Central Polluti Board
Central Polluti Board
CPCB has its head office in New Delhi, with seven zonal offices and 5
laboratories. The board conducts environmental assessments and
research. It is responsible for maintaining national standards under
a variety of environmental laws, in consultation with zonal offices, Flag of Central Pollution Control
tribal, and local governments. It has responsibilities to conduct Board
monitoring of water and air quality,[8] and maintains monitoring Agency overview
data. The agency also works with industries and all levels of
Formed 22 September 1974
government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention
programs and energy conservation efforts. It advises the central Employees 500[1]
government to prevent and control water and air pollution. It also Annual ₹400 million
advises the Governments of Union Territories on industrial and budget (US$5.6 million)[2]
other sources of water and air pollution. CPCB along with its
counterparts the State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) are Agency Shri Shiv Das Meena,
responsible for implementation of legislation relating to prevention executives IAS (18.05.2020-
and control of environmental pollution.[9][10] Present), Chairperson
Dr. Prashant Gargava,
The board has approximately 500 full-time employees[11] including
Member-Secretary
engineers, scientists, and environmental protection specialists.
Website www.cpcb.nic.in (htt
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Contents
History
Functions of CPCB
Organisational structure
Divisions of CPCB Head Office
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Zonal offices
See also
References
External links
CPCB head office in New Delhi
History
CPCB is constituted on 22 cleanliness of streams, wells.[12]
The Environment Protection Act (EPA) was passed in 1986 to close the gaps in the Water and Air Act, by
adding some more functions to the CPCB. CPCB plays role in abatement and control of pollution in the
country by generating relevant data, providing scientific information, rendering technical inputs for
formation of national policies and programs, training and development of manpower and organising
activities for promoting awareness at different levels of the Government and public.[13][14] Delhi
Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) was established in 1991 by Central Government works with (CPCB)
and (NGT) to control the pollution in Capital.[15][16][17][18]
Functions of CPCB
Functions of CPCB comes under both national level and as State Boards for the Union Territories. CPCB,
under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, and the Air (Prevention and Control of
Pollution) Act, 1981, aims to promote cleanliness of streams and wells in different areas of the States by
prevention, control and abatement of water pollution, and to improve the quality of air and to prevent,
control or abate air pollution in the country.
Air quality/ pollution : CPCB runs nationwide programs of ambient air quality monitoring known as
National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP). The network consists of 621 operating stations
covering 262 cities/towns in 29 states and 5 Union Territories of the country. Under N.A.M.P., four air
pollutants viz., Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Oxides of Nitrogen as NO2, Suspended Particulate Matter
(SPM) and Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM/ PM10) have been identified for regular
monitoring at all the locations. The monitoring of meteorological parameters such as wind speed and
wind direction, relative humidity (RH) and temperature were also integrated with the monitoring of air
quality. This information on Air Quality at ITO is updated every week.[19]
Water quality/ pollution : Fresh water is a finite resource essential for use in agriculture, industry,
propagation of wildlife & fisheries and for human existence. India is a riverine country. It has 14 major
rivers, 44 medium rivers and 55 minor rivers besides numerous lakes, ponds and wells which are
used as primary source of drinking water even without treatment. Most of the rivers being fed by
monsoon rains, which is limited to only three months of the year, run dry throughout the rest of the
year often carrying wastewater discharges from industries or cities or towns endangering the quality
of our scarce water resources. CPCB in collaboration with concerned SPCBs/PCCs established a
nationwide network of water quality monitoring, which has running 1019 stations in 27 States and 6
Union Territories. The monitoring process is done on quarterly basis in surface waters and on half
yearly basis in case of ground water. It covers 200 Rivers, 60 Lakes, 5 Tanks, 3 Ponds, 3 Creeks, 13
Canals, 17 Drains and 321 Wells. Among the 1019 stations, 592 are on rivers, 65 on lakes, 17 on
drains, 13 on canals, 5 on tanks, 3 on creeks, 3 on ponds and 321 are groundwater stations. The
inland water quality monitoring network is operating under a three-tier program i.e. Global
Environment Monitoring System (GEMS), Monitoring of Indian National Aquatic Resources System
(MINARS) and Yamuna Action Plan (YAP).[20][21]
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Urban area programs (EcoCity Program) : CPCB programs for urban areas, also known as
EcoCity Program comes under X Plan to improve environment through implementation of identified
environmental improvement projects in the selected towns and cities. Pilot studies conducted for
urban areas by the Centre for Spatial Environmental Planning created at the CPCB under the World
Bank funded Environmental Management Capacity Building Project and supported by the GTZ-
CPCB Project under the Indo-German Bilateral Program.[22] According to these studies CPCB
develop a comprehensive urban improvement system employing practical, innovative and non-
conventional solutions. Under the X Plan, a budget provision of Rs. 15 crore has been made for the
period 2002–03 to 2006-07 for the Ecocity projects.[23][24]
Municipal Solid Waste rules : Every municipal authority comes under the Municipal Solid Wastes
(Management & Handling) Rules, 2000 (MSW rules, 2000) and responsible for collection,
segregation, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solid. CPCB collects
necessary information form municipal authorities and provide them technical assistance.[25]
Noise Pollution/ Rules : According to S.O. 123(E) by MoEFC, various sources like industrial
activity, construction activity, generator sets, loud speakers, public address systems, music systems,
vehicular horns and other mechanical devices have deleterious effects on human health. CPCB has
the responsibility to regulate and control noise producing and generating sources with the objective
of maintaining the ambient air quality standards.[26]
Environmental Data Statistics : CPCB manages environmental data statistic in which air quality
data and water quality data comes through. In the case of air quality data, it measures the level of
SO2, NO2, RSPM and SPM.[27][28] CPCB measure and maintains water quality data as well. Quality
level of river and ponds are the major fields which comes under the water quality data criteria.[29][30]
Organisational structure
CPCB is led by its Chairman following by the Member Secretary.
The CPCB performs its various functions through the following nine
major project\ budget heads.[31][32]
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Zonal offices
CPCB has established 7 zonal offices catering to various States. Zonal offices are field offices of CPCB and
all the schemes are prepared at Head office are executed by them. Zonal offices undertake field
investigation and send reports on
Water Quality Monitoring, Air Quality Monitoring, Industrial
Inspection and other such related activities to the Head office for further action. Each zonal office caters
to a fixed number of states. The Zonal offices are located at Bengaluru, Kolkata, Shillong, Bhopal,
Lucknow, Vadodara and a Project Office at Agra.[51]
See also
Environmental issues in India
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
Van Vigyan Kendra (VVK) Forest Science Centres
References
1. "Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in India: Rapid Assessment" (http://www.oecd.org/envi
ronment/outreach/37838061.pdf) (PDF). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
2. "Annual Action Plan 2012" (https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210929/http://www.cpcb.nic.in/divi
sionsofheadoffice/pcp/AAP11-12.pdf) (PDF). Archived from the original (http://www.cpcb.nic.in/divisio
nsofheadoffice/pcp/AAP11-12.pdf) (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
3. "CPCB issues guidelines for public to lodge complaints on air pollution in Delhi-NCR" (https://indiane
xpress.com/article/india/delhi-ncr-air-pollution-cpcb-guidelines-complaints-supreme-court-social-medi
a-5427900/).
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External links
Central Pollution Control Board (http://cpcb.nic.in/)
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