Environment Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI) is a premier Institution of the Government of Telangana dealing with training, research, consultancy and other matters for various government and private agencies. EPTRI has conducted number of projects for obtaining Environment Clearance from the Ministry of Environment Forest & Climate Change, Government of India, including the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project and Hyderabad Pharma City. It has capacity in dealing with Wastewater Treatment and related fields.One of the environmental management tools is Wastewater Treatment (WWT). Environmental conditions arising from inadequate or non-existing wastewater management pose significant threats to human health, well-being and economic activity. Efforts to secure access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, as guided by the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target on drinking-water and sanitation, have been partly hindered by this.
Keeping EPTRI’s niche in managing environment for development in view, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India sanctioned the conduct of a two-week Training Programme on Waste water Treatment as part of the Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation Scheme (ITEC). The course has started on the 4th of February 2019 and end on 16th of February, 2019. There are twenty five (25)foreign delegates from fifteen (15) countries viz., Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Nigeria, Peru, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Zimbabwe. They are senior& middle management level government officials including faculties of engineering colleges.The two (2) week ITEC program on Wastewater Treatment, will briefly outline the problems and impacts caused by water quality issues and then looks at the current situation in respect to the different components making up wastewater (i.e. domestic, industrial and agricultural). It focuses on existing problems and deficiencies that have to be recognized and overcome while emphasizing that wastewater management should consider the sustainable management of wastewater from source to re-entry into the environment.
In this connection, the foreign delegates have visited Nagarjuna Sagar dam on 13.02.2019. The Dy Executive Engineer and Shaik Env Engr. have explained about the history of the dam, importance of the dam for two states viz., Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and the multipurpose use of this dami.e., for power, irrigation and drinking dam water purposes. The Irrigation Dept, Revenue Dept. and Police dept officials of Nalgonda District accompanied the team. The foreign delegates thanked Shri B. Kalyan Chakravarthy, IAS, Director General, EPTRI and Shri Gaurav Uppal, IAS, District Collector, Nalgonda for extending full support for visiting Nagarjuna Sagar Dam.
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