Environmental Protection Research Foundation was started to do research and development activities in Pollution Control Technologies so that economical and effective methods can be developed to suit local conditions of manpower, environment and resource availability.
Dr. B. Subba Rao developed Anaerobic Lagoon method for treating distillery waste, which was pioneering innovation in environmental technology in India. Fortunately Hon;ble Vasantrao data Patil, Chief Minister supported our research work since 1970, which we started in Walchand Engineering College. Most of the sugar factories in Maharashtra and Karnataka adopted our technology and we diversified our activities to other agro-based industries and later to other sectors.
During the period of 1970 to 2000 many students who dis post graduation in Environmental Engineering from our Walchand College, helped us in field visits, testing and monitoring as part of their research work.
These students after graduation joined corporate companies in Environment sector, some joined Pollution Control Boards and some decided to do consultancy on their own. Industries being interested in avoiding extra financial burden of providing adequate pollution control equipment and manpower, tried to manage the regulatory agencies and consultants to adopt corrupt practises.
Stiff competition and attraction of getting quick money through corrupt practises slowly spread in the entire environmental consultancy field and it became very difficult to survive in this situation.
Failure of pollution control inspite of pollution control mechanism created unrest in pollution affected areas and people lost confidence on Pollution Cotrol officers and consultants.
This situation was observed all over India and many corporates became masters in grabbing large projects and managing the unrest with legal tactics.
My Ph. D. guide Dr. G. D. Agrawal who was director of IIT, Kanpur had joined as Member Secretary of CPCB. But seeing this condition of continuing pollution, he resigned the post and started agitation to save Ganga river.
By doing indefinite fast and giving many ultimatums to government, when he found that pollution of Ganga river is unabated, he refused to give up fast and became martyr.
We had conducted seminars on Save Ganga Project through EPRF and supported Dr. G. D. Agrawal.
I was involved in Dnyandeep Infotech, Web Design company I had established and had started Dnyandeep Foundation to educate people in green technology.
As such, I could not help Dr. B. Subba Rao in in his work and he started working as independent consultant.
After sad demise of my wife, Sou Shubhangi in 2016, I felt that I am not not doing anuthing to fulfill aspirations of Dr. G.. D. Agrawal and I started Environmental Consultancy as new division of Dnyandeep Infotech. I took Shri. Watve, a long time associate and incharge of Environmental laboratory of Walchand College and Prof. S. V. Kulkarni, senior professor from KIT, Kolhapur as directors and started working.
Fortunately for me, Dr. N. S. Raman, Retd Director from NEERI, Nagpur joined us as director and took the responsibility of starting new branch in Nagpur.
Now my job has become easy. I can fully devote my time, energy and money to do the essential duty of eliminating the corrupt practises fron pollution control field.
I have approached Dr. B. Subba Rao to join hands and support our activities. We both have to teach our own students to adopt honesty transperancy and give maximum selfless service in providing failproof, but economical treatment technology to industries so that their growth can be ensured causing overall development of India without damage to environment.
I hope that all my students and colleagues will welcome this move and help Dnyandeep Infotech to achieve its goal of promoting sustainable development.
- Dr. S. V. Ranade, Dnyandeep Infotech Pvt. Ltd., Sangli
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