Environment Monitor Activities and Achievements of the Board 2005-2006 Maharashtra Pollution Control Board Kalpataru Point, Sion(E), Mumbai 400 022. E-mail:
[email protected] visit us at http://mpcb.mah.nic.in Published by Dr. D. B. Boralkar, Member Secretary, on behalf of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board at 'Kalpataru Point', Sion (East), Mumbai. Website: http://mpcb.mah.nic.in FROM THE MEMBER SECRETARY'S DESK YEAR 2005-2006 AT A GLANCE Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB or “Board”) achieved many milestones during the year 2005-2006, despite being faced with many challenges. We accomplished these milestones by focusing not just on our mandated tasks such as monitoring and enforcement, raising public awareness and consent management, but often times going beyond the call of duty. We partnered and collaborated with national and international institutions to improve functional efficiency and build both internal and external capacity. We set up demonstration projects, funded new ventures, provided consultation to local bodies, proposed expansions of existing monitoring networks and common infrastructure, and recognizing the Information Technology (IT) age, placed vast amounts of data and resources on our website. In all these endeavors, we were guided by our vision to move towards overall betterment and sustainability - better efficiency, better transparency, better responses and better protection of the State's environment. Some specific examples of how we achieved our targets for the year are summarized in a table of highlights in the first chapter of this Environment Monitor. The year 2005-2006 also saw a paradigm shift in the our thought process as a Board, in our quest to change in unprecedented ways.