Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal organised a lecture and presentation on ‘Pollution status of Bhopal and its effect’ on Thursday under Summer Nature Study Programme. The lecture was delivered by PK Shrivastava, Senior Scientist from MP Pollution Control Board, Bhopal. Manoj Kumar Sharma, Scientist-B and Head of Office welcomed the PK Shrivastava.
PK Shrivastava detailed about air, water, noise, indoor, radiological and land pollutions. He also informed the participants about the unfortunate incident happened in Bhopal on the night of December 2 and 3 in 1984 as Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) gas leakage from Union Carbide India limited Bhopal.
He detailed that size and quantity of suspended particulate matter are more than permissible limit in Bhopal. Participants felt strange when PK Shrivastava informed that the particular of smoke of Agarbatti, Dhopbatti, Cigarette are more harmful than the dust because they reaches in our lungs which cannot be excrete while dust particular are trapped in our nasal cavity.
Manik lal Gupta, Educational Assistant was the Coordinator of the programme.