Veer Bhadra Mishra
Indian environmentalist
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Veer Bhadra Mishra's Degrees
- PhD Civil Engineering University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Veer Bhadra Mishra Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Veer Bhadra Mishra was the founding president of the Sankat Mochan Foundation. He was a former professor of Hydraulic engineering and former Head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi. He was also the Mahant of the Sankat Mochan Hanuman temple, Varanasi at Varanasi founded by poet-saint Goswami Tulsidas. Mishra was recognized on the United Nations Environment Programme's "Global 500 Roll of Honour" in 1992, and was a TIME Magazines "Hero of the Planet" recipient in 1999 for his work related to cleaning of the Ganges through the Sankat Mochan Foundation. He was a member of the National Ganga River Basin Authority under Ministry of Environment, Govt. of India, which was set up in 2009, by the Government of India as an empowered planning, financing, monitoring and coordinating authority for the Ganges, in exercise of the powers conferred under the Environment Act, 1986.
Veer Bhadra Mishra's Published Works
Published Works
- Isolation of Potentially Pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 from the Ganges River (2007) (62)
- The Ganga at Varanasi and a travail to stop her abuse (2005) (18)
- Sewage pollution of the River Ganga: an ongoing case study in Varanasi, India (2013) (11)
- Water pollution control through people's participation (1994) (0)
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