{"id":14968,"date":"2025-10-16T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14968"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:54:14","slug":"national-environmental-engineering-research-institute-neeri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-environmental-engineering-research-institute-neeri\/","title":{"rendered":"National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court recently permitted the limited use of green crackers approved by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) in Delhi-NCR this Diwali. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About National Environmental Engineering Research Institute\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>research institute<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> created and <\/span><b>funded by the Government of India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NEERI is a pioneer laboratory in the field of environmental science and engineering.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The institute\u2019s primary mission is to conduct research and development activities related to various aspects of environmental management, pollution control, and sustainable development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Formation:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>established in Nagpur in 1958 as the Central Public Health Engineering Research Institute (CPHERI), <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when environmental concerns were limited to human health with a focus on water supply\/sewage disposal\/communicable diseases, and to some extent, on industrial pollution and occupational diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slowly worldwide public awareness on the contamination of the environment on a regional to global scale started getting attention in the 1970\u2019s.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>In 1974, CPHERI was rechristened the<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (<\/span><b>NEERI<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) under<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Ministry of Science and Technology,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Government of India.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is devoted to <\/span><b>research and innovations in environmental science and engineering <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">besides solving a range of problems posed by industry, government, and the public.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Headquarters: Nagpur<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NEERI has <\/span><b>five zonal laboratories <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at <\/span><b>Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstoday.in\/india\/story\/sc-allows-bursting-of-green-crackers-in-delhi-ncr-from-october-18-to-21-under-strict-rules-498250-2025-10-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>BT<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) is a research institute created and funded by the Government of India. 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