Professor Kumar Jyoti Nath

President, Institution of Public Health Engineers, India. Former Director, All India Institute of Hygiene Public Health, Calcutta, India

Professor Nath is an authority in environmental sanitation deeply committed to the promotion of environmental hygiene and public health. He was educated at the University of Calcutta where he qualified with a first degree in Civil Engineering, obtaining his Master's degree in Public Health Engineering in 1969 and a Diploma in Sanitary Engineering (Delft, The Netherlands) in 1975.

Professor Nath has thirty five years' experience in the fields of public health hygiene and environmental management, including project planning, management, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment as well as consultant engineering and advisory services. As Director at the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health and head of a multi-disciplinary team, he is involved in a number of projects concerning health and hygiene, in addition to those concerning environmental management, pollution control and waste disposal. Professor Nath has also had a long association with the Calcutta Urban Development Project, supported by the World Bank, and Evaluation of Community Water Supply projects sponsored by UNICEF. He has long international experience of undertaking environment related assignments for International Agencies such as WHO, UNICEF, World Bank, UNDP in many countries, and has completed a number of important research studies and projects on environmental sanitation, community water supply, waste water and management, resource recycling, community participation and social mobilisation.

As chief co-ordinator of the International Training Network Centre, India (a joint initiative of the World Bank, ODA, and the Indian Government), Professor Nath has planned human resource development and the R&D programme in water supply and sanitation. He has also designed course curricula for a range of training programmes for managers.

Below are a small selection from Professor Nath’s extensive portfolio of projects, positions and publications..

International Projects
Consultant to Birmingham University, U.K. for design and implementation of research study on recycling of urban solid waste and its impact on community health in the cities of Calcutta & Bangkok, 1994.

WHO Assignment for preparation of the Country Paper – ‘Waste water treatment and reuse’ 1994. Chaired the regional workshop for Southeast Asian Countries.

Short term Consultant to the World Bank, – Evaluation of community water supply and sanitation projects in People’s Republic of China (Nov-Dec, 1990).

WHO (Adviser) Assignment – In depth evaluation of bio-environmental control of malaria (1987).

Research Projects, Consultancy Services & Engineering Projects
Rapid evaluation of Ganga Action Programme of the Ministry of Environment, GOI, May, 1995.

Assessment of the existing solid waste management, community water supply & drainage and sewerage in 38 Municipal Towns in C.M.D. (1995).

Evaluation of health risk to the community from on-site sanitation projects for comparable socio-economic groups, Sponsored by WHO. (1985-88)

Academic and Research Awards, include:
Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Sulabh Sanitation Award
Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the National Academy of Environmental Sciences, India.
Indian Public Health Association – Fellowship.
Awarded Netherlands Govt. Fellowship in 1974.
Awarded WHO Fellowship in 1980.
WHO, Fellowship for attending Water 2000, Barcelona, Spain.

Professional Ex-officio Posts include:
Life Fellow of the Institution of Public Health Engineers, India
President, Institution of Public Health Engineers, India
Life Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India
Member, International Association of Water Research, U.K.
Chairman of the National Co-ordinating Council on Water Quality set up under National Drinking Water Mission, India.
Chairman of the Committee on developing a protocol on testing fluoride in water set up under National Water Mission, India
Chairman of the Committee for Preparation of a Report on the Manpower Development Programme for the Department of Rural Development, Government of India.

Publications (selected):
Environmental pollution in the Calcutta metro and its impact on community health – paper presented in the International Conference on Environmental Health Management, Indian Institute of Management, Joka, Calcutta, 1995.

Urban solid waste management in Asian cities – presented at Harvard University – Pacific Basin Research Group Workshop, Taipei, 1995.

An approach paper for the national mission of sanitation & hygiene – National Workshop of the Ministry of Health, Government of India, April, 1995.

Future of recycling of urban solid waste in developing countries – Paper presented in the International Workshop in Birmingham University, U.K. (May, 1994).

Environmental management in India: Challenges of 21^st century. Journal of the Institution of Public Health Engineers, November, 1994.

Rural sanitation in India with special reference to West Bengal. Journal Panchayati Raj Govt. of West Bengal, June, 1993.

Pollution travel from on-site sanitation – paper presented at the International Conference on Water and Waste Water, Barcelona, Spain, April, 1990.

Water quality surveillance – a status report, presented at the Water Quality Workshop organised by I.T.R.C., Lucknow, 1989.

Urban air pollution and its impact on health. Workshop Proceedings, Indian Association of Engineering Industries Calcutta, November, 1985.

Appropriate technology for human excreta disposal in hot countries. Proceedings of the WHO Workshop, PEPAS, K’Lampur, October, 1985.

Health aspects of refuse and excreta disposal. Proceedings of the WHO Workshop, PEPAS, K’Lampur, October, 1985.

Low cost sanitation programme in India: problems and prospects. 10^th WEDC Conference, Singapore, August, 1984.

Appropriate and cost effective technology for urban solid waste management. Proceedings of the UNICEF Seminar on Environmental Sanitation, Calcutta, November, 1983.

Appropriate technology for urban solid waste management in developing countries. Proceedings of the 9^th WEDEC Conference, Harare, Zimbabwe, April, 1983.

Biological effects of some toxicants on Canthocemptus (Crustacean Sp.). International Journal of Environmental Studies, 1983, Vol. (2).

Ground water resource management, with particular reference to pollution problems in Calcutta urban and industrial areas. Course paper, Winter School, Rourkella Regional Engineering College, December, 1981.

Peoples participation in urban water supply and sanitation programme. Paper presented in the I.P.H.A. Seminar, Calcutta, July, 1981.

International decade on water supply and sanitation – training and research needs. Journal of the Institution of P.H. Engineers, Vol. 1981, No.3.

Current status of water pollution and its control in India. Proceeding of the 68^th session of the Indian Science Congress, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 3-7 January, 1981.

Sedimentation tank design: a rational approach. Institution of Engineers, India, May, 1979.

Water pollution control and industrial development: a system approach. Proceeding’s of the IFAC Workshop on System Approach for Development, Cairo, November 1977.

Economics of pollution control laws and financing of regional boards. Journal of the Institution of P.H. Engineers, India, Vol. 1977, No. 1.

Water quality management in Gamon river valley – a case study. Project Thesis Paper, International Course in Sanitary Engineering, Delft, The Netherlands, 1974-75.