Diploma Course in Environment Protection

The Guru Nanak Dev University's Faculty of Life Sciences offers Diploma Course in Environment Protection to its students. The course structure for it is as follows:

Waste Management: Waste classification Solid waste disposal, Solid Waste
management in India, Municipal solid waste management and environment.
Wealth from waste.


Technological approach of Waste Management: Solid Waste management
by biotechnology, Land Filling, Incineration, Dioxins, Ocean dumping,
Disposal of medical waste, Emmunisation waste.

Polymer Waste Management: Electrinic Waste. Problem and management,
Plastics, Biodegradation and Non-biodegradable Waste, Problem of water
resistance to degradation, Microbial degradation.

Hazardous Waste: Types of radioactive wastes, Disposal methods of
radioactive waste, Reprocessing of spent uranium fuel and its disposal.
converting radio waste to solid form, Radioactive waste detector.

Vermicomposting: Introduction, Vermiculture conditions and maintenance,
Vermicomposting techniques. Comparison of natural compost manure and
vermicompost. Waste to manure. Advantages of vermicompost over chemical
fertilizers.

Statistics: Probability, Sampling, Arithmetic, Geometric and harmonic
means, Median, Mode, Variance, Standard deviation, Standard error.
Coefficient variation, Students 't' test