Development oriented activities of human beings have highly polluted the earth environment in general. No part of earth remains unspoiled with a variety of polluting and toxic substances. As a result each sphere of our biosphere viz atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere are gradually turning a cesspool of carcinogenic, mutagenic to myriads of other deleterious substances released by man consequent to his care free exploitation of our natural resources. Not only we are loosing our precious biodiversity, but are exposing our future generations to the lethal effects of chemicals, solid wastes and sewage born ingredients. This is mainly on account of our poor environmental management, which otherwise could be better done.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.D. Joshi
Porf. B.D. Joshi b. 1947 did his Ph.D. (1973) from University of Lucknow. He worked as a lecturer in Hindu College and then Kumaun University. He joined as eader & Head in the Dept. of Zoology of Gurukula Kangri University, Hardwar, where he became Professor by selection at an young age of 37yrs. Prof. Joshi has acted as Dean of the Faculty of Life Science for three trrms, DSW and Chief Proctor of univ,. and has been Head of The Dept. for about 17 tears. He has been expert member in panels of DST, CSIR, UGC, MEnF, etc. He has been honoured with Gold medals and Fellowships and citations by ZSI, India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Namita Joshi
Dr. Namita Joshi is Professor and Head, Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology at College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Faizabad (UP). Dr. Joshi graduated in 1992 in Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (Uttrakhand). She did her Master's degree and Ph.D. from the same university in year 1994 and 2001, respectively. Dr. Joshi has been associated with teaching of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology in G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar and N.D. University of Agriculture and Technology, Faizabad for last 10 years. She has about 50 research papers to her credit published in reputed National and International Journals and developed two manuals for under graduate students on 'Milk and Meat Hygiene, Food Safety and Public Health' and 'Veterinary Epidemiology and Zoonoses'. Dr. Joshi has been elected member of Indian Association of Veterinary Public Health Specialists. She is also Assistant Editor in the Journal of Immunology and Immunopathology and acting as reviewer in many journals.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P C Joshi
P C Joshi has worked as senior scientist with the Saha Institute of Applied research and Particle Accelerator project, Kolkata. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of technology, Mumbai.
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