Eco-Degradation Due to Air Pollution

Arun Arya

Dr. Arun Arya, Professor of Botany and Co-ordinator, Seed Technology Programme in The M.S. University of Baroda. He is a Botanist, Phytopathologist, Philatelist & popular Science writer. He obtained his Doctorate from University of Allahabad in 1983. Dr. Arya started his teaching career as lecture in Microbiology at Gurukul Kangri University, Hardwar in 1985. With the start of Seed Technology programme he was made co-ordinator in 2001. Dr. Arya is a recipient of Young Scientist award of DST, New Delhi in 1986. He has worked as a senior research fellow and post doctoral research fellow of CSIR, New Delhi. He has published more than 100 research papers and 7 books. He has reported three new species of Phomopsis and several new fruit rot diseases. For the first time different fungi have been reported by his research group from objects like paper, cloth and Egyptian mummy kept in Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery. Ecofriendly plant parts obtained from rhizome, leaf and flower extracts were used to control different fungal pathogens. He has presented his research findings in XV International Botanical Congress at Yokohama in Japan in 1993 and 12th World Forestry Congress in Qubec City Canada in 2003. He had an honour to co-chair a session on Eco-regions in this International Congress.

S.J. Bedi

Dr. S.J. Bedi, Professor and Ex-Head, Department of Botany, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, is a Senior Botanist with vast teaching and research experience of 31 years in the field of Plant Ecology and Systematic Botany. He guided numerous research projects funded by UGC and MoEF. He has published around 100 research papers in journals of national and international repute. He is fellow and founder member of IAAPC. In August 1986 he presented his finding in Seventh World Clean Air Congress at Sydney Australia. Presently, he is a consultant to various agencies for pollution control methodologies.

V.S. Patel

Prof. Vinod S. Patel, consulting Engineer and Environmental expert has been working in this field since last 30 years. He has worked on various engineering projects in USA, East Africa and India in different capacities. He is the President of the Indian Association for Air Pollution Control (IAAPC). He has an expertise in Radial well and ground water supply management. He was Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Technology and Engineering as well as in Science Faculty, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He has published more than 30 technical papers.