TIMES OF INDIA, Saturday, July 16, 2011
A Professor of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Brahma Dutt Tripathi has been selected for the award of UGC – BSR Faculty Fellowship. The University Grants Commission has evolved the award to facilitate talented teachers in science and technology on the verge of superannuation to continue their productive research for an additional period of three years. Tripathi, a notated environmental scientist in the department of Botany, is the only scientist of BHU who has received this prestigious award for basic scientific research. Tripathi’s selection was made at the meeting of Empowered committee on Basic Scientific Research held in March in New Delhi.
Prof. Tripathi is specialized in environmental pollution control technologies, bioremediation, ecological conservation, biodiversity and resource management. Tripathi has developed many technologies like Stake Pollution Controller, Air Pollution Controller for silver refineries, Biological treatment of wastewater, treatment technology for saree printing industries, treatment technology for dairy wastewater and air pollution control technology for brick industries. He is founder of the Centre for Environmental Science & Technology at BHU. He has published over 185 research papers in national and international journals and authored nine books. Tripathi has been included in the team of expert members of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), Govt. of India and State Ganga River Conservation Authority of UP.
His research findings were discussed in the Parliament in 1980 that laid the foundation of Ganga Action Plan (GAP) in India. He produced two documentary films – Scientific Search on Ganga and Harvesting Rain: A silent move. His treatment technology for Saree Printing Industries to check the pollution of Ganga was also approved by the Allahabad High Court.
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