The Department of Chemistry, SRM University organized a “One
Day National Seminar on Environment and Sustainable Development - SESD 2016 on
3rd JUNE 2016 in association with IRD INDIA. Pollution remains a major challenge for India.
From water pollution to global warming, environmental issues affect every
person, animal, community and nation on the planet. Sustainable development has
the goal of the international community since the UN conference on environment
and development in 1992. Hence this seminar focused on environmental protection
and sustainable development.
The program of action includes four technical sessions
covering the thrust areas by the lectures delivered by the experts in
environmental field. Dr. S. Rajendran, RVS School of Engineering and
Technology, Dindigul has delivered an invited talk on “Green Electrochemistry –
A versatile tool in green synthesis”. Dr. D. Mohan, Director, FDP, Anna
University has delivered an invited talk on “Membrane Technologies for Waste
Water Treatment”.
73 papers were presented in the seminar. The papers
presented addressed some of the thrust areas like sustainable life style,
ecocity, ecosystem and wild life, green life style, pollution control, waste
water treatment, solid waste management, hazardous waste management and green
synthesis.
The best paper award was presented to an oral and a poster
presentation. This seminar was a
platform for many research scholars who have started their research on
environment and sustainable development. This seminar gave room for the discussion and deliberations which
will come out with concrete action plans and remedial measures to some extent
to resolve the issue of conflict between environmental degradation and
sustainable development.
The inaugural function was held on 3rd June 2016 at T P
Ganesan Auditorium, SRM University, Kattankulathur. The Chief Guest Dr. P.
Kasinadha Pandian, Principle, Tagore Engineering College, inaugurated the
program and released the proceedings.
Dr. M. Arthanareeswari, Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry
presided over the function. Dr. B. Sivakumar, Coordinator introduced the Chief
Guest. Dr. R. Kalavizhi, Coordinator delivered vote of thanks. Dr.T. Raju, Dr.V. Narayanan, Dr.P. Kamaraj,
and Dr.P.N.Sudha chaired the technical sessions. Dr.S.Devikala, Dr.K. Pandian
and Dr.Stephen co-chaired the sessions.
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