ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DR. M. NARAYANA RAO

Technical Consultant, Bangalore (India) Emeritus Professor, J.N. Technological
University (JNTU), Hyderabad (India)

Dr. M. Narayana Rao is presently a technical consultant and an emeritus

professor at JNT University, Hyderabad. He obtained his PhD in
Environmental Engineering and did postdoctoral work in New Zealand.
He taught at IIT Roorkee and NIT Durgapur for 16 years and later
moved into Industrial R&D at Bangalore. He then joined Govt. of India
and served as professor and later director of National Institute for
Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai for about 10 years.
Dr. Rao published 270 Technical papers in National and International
Journals, 25 manuals, 5 textbooks, and 15 video lessons. He worked as an
expert member on several Technical Committees of Pollution Control
Boards and Ministries of Govt of India. and Govts of Andhra Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Karnataka. He is a consultant to UNEP,
WHO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, DANIDA, CIDA,
Colombo Plan Staff College, Manila, and more than 60 industries in
India and abroad. He is a member of academic councils of 9 universities
and visiting professor to 10 Academic Institutions and Engineering
Colleges. Dr. Rao guided about 250 Masters and PhD projects. He is a
recipient of 25 awards including 4 gold medals. He chaired 40
International Conferences and presented Technical papers in 54 countries
around the world. His areas of interest are water supply, wastewater treat-
ment, air pollution control, waste management, climate change, EIA and
Environmental Education. Email: narayanaraom@yahoo.com.

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DR. RAZIA SULTANA

Director (Programs)(Retd), Environment Protection Training and Research
Institute (EPTRI), Hyderabad

Dr. Razia Sultana, an Indian Scientist, PhD in Environmental Science from

Kakatiya University, India. She worked for Andhra Pradesh Pollution
Control Board for 14 years and later joined Environment Protection
Training and Research Institute (EPTRI) in Hyderabad, and retired as a
Director (Programs) after 21 years. She established Biotechnology
Laboratory and Botanical Garden at EPTRI. Her professional visits were to
most of the states of India, Japan, Sweden, Canada, and United States. Dr.
Sultana published papers, and has been a guide/examiner for Bachelor,
Master, MPhil and PhD students. She chaired/presented technical papers in
national and international conferences. Dr. Sultana assisted the Andhra
Pradesh Government in bringing out special legislation on Water, Land and
Trees Act, 2000 and organized training programs, executed environmental
projects, and conducted research for national and international agencies. She
also worked as Course Director for International Institute for Waste
Management (IIWM), Bhopal. She served as a member of Environment
Panel for Confederation of Indian Industries. She published quarterly
Newsletters under Environment Information System (ENVIS) sponsored by
Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India.

DR. SRI HARSHA KOTA

Dr. Sri Harsha Kota is currently an assistant professor of Civil
Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. He
received his master’s and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from Texas
A&M University, College Station, USA. His research is focused on devel-
oping emission inventories from mobile sources and landfills, urban air
quality monitoring and modeling, noise pollution, developing indoor air
purification systems, regional air quality modeling, and climate change.
He is an author of several journals and international conference publica-
tions. He is currently involved in many funded research projects. He was
an invited speaker for several technical talks, and session chair in an inter-
national conference. He was in the advisory committee for an interna-
tional conference and the chief coordinator of a national workshop on air
quality modeling. He is the guest editor for a special issue in the Journal of
Environmental Research.