Community organ-WPS Office.pdf organization of community

Health

1. Community
organizations to promote
environmental health
• ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE:
UNIT-3:Community organizations to promote environmental
health
a) Levels and types of agencies: National, state, local -
Government, voluntary and social agencies.
b) Legislations and acts regulating the environmental hygiene.

2. Community organizations to
promote environmental health
Environmental organizations are working
for improvement and betterment of
surfounding includes pollution, waste,
resource depletion, human overpopulation
and climate change.
It can be global, national, regional or local.
The organization may be a charity, a trust, a
non-governmental organization or a
government organization

3. NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL
ORGANIZATIONS
Ministry of Environment Forests and climate
change (MoEFCC) For planning, promoting.
coordinating and overseeing the implementation
of environmental and forestry programmes in the
country.
The main activities:
Conservation and survey of the environment,
forests and other wilderness areas Prevention
and control of pollution
Deforestation and reducing land degradation.
It is responsible for the administration of the
national parks of India

4. • Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB): To
promote cleanliness of streams & wells in different areas of the
States by prevention, control of water pollution. To improve the
quality of air & to prevent, control air pollution in the
country
Functions of CPCB:
Advise the Central Government on any matter concerning
prevention & control of water & air pollution and improvement of
the quality of air.
Plan a nation-wide programme for the prevention, control of water
& air pollution;
Co-ordinate the activities of the State Board & resolve
environmental problems
• Sponsor investigation and research relating to problems of water
and air pollution,
Plan and organize training on the prevention, control of water and
air pollution;

5. • Environmental non-
governmental organizations:
To develop civic & environmental
consequences among the public, To
educate the students about the
pollutionblem and the harmful effect of
pollution, To describe and discuss the
common charatistics of environmental
issues & To act as a catalyst in bringing
about local initiative and community
participation

6. Bombay Natural History
Society (BNHS)
Largest NGO in the Indian sub-
continent engaged in nature
conservation research & spreads
awareness about the need to
protect the environment and
sustainable use of natural
resources

7. Centre for Science & Environment (CSE)
Environmental NGO specializing
in sustainable nature resource
management in New Delhi;
believes in knowledge-based
activism to cope with India's
environmental threats ecological
poverty, land degradation, toxic
degradation etc.

8. Greenpeace India
Indian wing of the international non-
profit organization; activities,
discouraging genetic engineering,
promoting peace, saving the
environment from pollution
(eliminating toxic wastes, saving the
seas), promoting sustainable
agriculture etc.

9. Wildlife Conservation Trust of India (WTI)
Non-profit organization set up in Mumbai Maharashtra, to
prevent destruction of India's wildlife, especially
endangered species (tigers, elephants, rhinos) &
threatened habitats; aids research & projects, public,
acquires land for wildlife conservation cates

National Environmental Engineering
Research Institute (NEERI) In Nagpur Research
institute devoted to research & innovations in
environmental science & engineering besides solving a
range of problems posed by industry, government and
public part of areas include air pollution, climate change,
environmental health Wildlife.

10. Conservation Society-India Progmme:
founded in Bangalore focuses on protect
reserves by studying tigers, leopards, prey
species. offers an courses in wildlife biology &
conservation.
Trust founded in Chennai with the mission of
conservation of biodiversity Gurukula Botanical
sanctuary
Plant sanctuary in wavnad in Kerala, for
conservational of biology Research and Action in
natural wealth administration (RANWA)

11. • Small NGO in pune, engaged in environmental
research activities
•Care earth organization: maintain the land and
its ajural resources
Vanashakthi: Wet land environmental protect
organization and anti mining
• Indian farm forestry development
cooperation(IFFDC)
• Integrated rural developmental activity,
deforestation
• Centre for Environmental Research and
education(CERE)
• Mumbai based organization works for waste
recycling & Research
• Surveying environmental education.

12. • LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL
ORGANIZATIONS
+ Project Agastva more efficient and Sustainable Water
Resources Manage gment in
Bangalore
Vanastree: in sirsi desire to make available the wide variety of
semi-wild and cultivated plant species of the region motivates this
effort.
• Sav Trees: helping Bangalore regain its 'Garden City' brand
Environment Support Group (ESG) is an independent not-for-
profit non- governmental organization, Its main functions involve
research, training, campaign support, and advocacy on a variety of
environmental and social justice issues.
ATREE in Bangalore Mission for achieving environmental
conservation and sustainable development, to enable the use of this
knowledge by policy makers and society, and to train the next
generation of environmental leaders.

13. Legislations and acts regulating
the environmental hygiene
The ministry of environment &
forest - formulated these acts
• Main work is to Protect the
environment
Its helps to Maintain nature and
prevent hazards
And also Control human activities
from destroy of environmen

14. Acts Related to
environmental hygiene:
EPA (1986): Protect and improve environment
quality, control and reduce pollution from all
sources
Indian forest act 1927: Protection and
conservation of forest
The wild life protection act 1972: Provides for
the protection of birds, animals and plants and all
resources in forest
Indian fisheries act 1897: Maintain coastal or
inland with intend to prevent destroy of fish

15. River board act 1956: Maintain cleanliness and prevention of
river pollution
Water (prevention and control of pollution) act 1974:
Prevention and dcontrol of Water pollution
Air (prevention and control of pollution) act 1981:
Prevention and control of Air pollution
The atomic energy act 1982: Control of radio active
substances in environment
The motor vehicles act 1988: Control of motor vehicles
related pollution in environment
Bio medical waste act 1988: Proper waste disposal from
health care settings
Noise pollution control act 2002: Prevention and control of
noise due to all sources
• National Green Tribunal Act 2010: environmental protection
& conservation of forests and other natural resources

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