Education and awareness in the area of waste and waste management is increasingly important from a global perspective of resource management. This programme aims to discuss the sustainability concerned about the unprecedented scale and speed of environmental pollution and degradation, and the depletion of natural resources. Local, regional, and global air pollution; accumulation and distribution of toxic wastes; destruction and depletion of forests, soil, and water; depletion of the ozone layer and emission of "green house" gases threaten the survival of humans and thousands of other living species, the integrity of the earth and its biodiversity, the security of nations, and the heritage of future generations. Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials in the form of solid, liquid, gaseous or radioactive substances. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment and to recover resources from it. The recent trend of research in chemical sciences significantly emphasize on recourse effective operations and atom economy to reduce the generation of wastes in industrial chemical processes. This course will cover all the underlying aspects of waste management and reduction and the latest practices followed in this area.

The broad outline of the course is as follows:

• Solid waste management
• Waste water treatment
• Recent techniques for the prediction and monitoring of pollution
• Environmental pollution and its abetment
• Environmental pollution and its abetment
• Heterogeneous catalysis
• Advanced materials for pollution control
• Environmentally Benign Processes and Products
• Renewable Resources
• Surface and ground water pollution
• Sustainable developments

The Course will be organized at the Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela. The NIT, Rourkela was founded as the Regional Engineering College, Rourkela on 15/08/1961. The Institute was declared as National Institute of Technology with Deemed to be University status on 26th June 2002 and Institute of National Importance on 15th August 2007 by act of Parliament. It is a prestigious institute with a reputation for excellence at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Chemistry department offer instructions in general and engineering chemistry to the undergraduate students of all branches, physical and organic chemistry to the chemical engineering students and M.Sc. courses. Research programs in the department include cutting edge areas such as abetment of environmental pollution, nanomaterial synthesis, functional nanomaterials, nanoporous materials, application of nanomaterials in biotechnology, organic synthesis and organometallic chemistry. En route Howrah – Mumbai main line of South Eastern Railway, Rourkela is well connected by railway service network with the rest of India, and also by inters and intra – state bus services. Rourkela railway station is approximately 6 km from NIT Campus.

Faculty members from AICTE approved Institutions in Chemistry/ Chemical/Civil/ Ceramics/ Metallurgy/Bio-Tech. and all other branches are eligible to attend.

Dr. Garudadhwaj Hota Department of Chemistry National Institute of Technology Rourkela-769008 (Orissa) Phones: 0661 2462655, 9938646340 Fax: 0661 2462999 e-mail: garud@nitrkl.ac.in Dr. Braja Gopal Mishra Department of Chemistry National Institute of Technology Rourkela-769008 (Orissa) Phones: 0661 2462659, 9778088349 Fax: 0661 2462999 e-mail: brajam@nitrkl.ac.in