CENTRAL LABORATORY
The Meghalaya Pollution Control Board has
established its Central Environmental Laboratory in 1988. This
laboratory has been recognized as 
“State Water and Air Laboratory”
by the Government of India during 1989. This laboratory also caters
to the need of other Govt. Deptts. like PHE, etc. It is equipped
with sophisticated instruments like AAS, GC, specific Ion analyzer,
UV-Spectrophotometer, Mobile Lab, etc., besides the basic
equipments/instruments. The laboratory performs all routine
analytical works and also undertakes research programmes.
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The Laboratory was recognized by National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), a constituent Board of Quality Council of India for its testing facilities in accordance with the standard ISO/IEC 17025:2017. Cerfiticate Click here
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The Licence for Occupational Health and Safety Management System Certification as per ISO 45001:2018 was granted by the Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS), Kolkata to the Laboratory. Certificate Click here
Rates for sampling and analysis of environmental samples Click here
Lists of available instruments used for analysis are as shown below:
Sl. No. |
Name of Instrument |
|---|---|
1. |
B.O.D Incubator |
2. |
Bacteriological Incubator |
3. |
Conductivity Meter (Digital) |
4. |
Flame Photometer (Digital-1000) |
5. |
Hot Air Oven |
6. |
Nephlometer/Turbidity Meter (Digital) |
7. |
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer |
8. |
Automatic Kjeldhl Analyser |
9. |
Sound Level Meter |
10. |
Mobile Laboratory & Accessories |
11. |
CO/HC Analyser |
12. |
Gas Chromotograph |
13. |
TOC Analyzer |
14. |
pH system |
15. |
Stack Sampler Model VSS1 |
16. |
Respirable Dust Sampler APM-460 (BL) |
17. |
Anemometer (Digital) |
18. |
Hygro-Thermo meter (Digital) |
19. |
Analytical Balance |
20. |
Muffle Furnace |
21. |
Deep Freezer |
22. |
UV-Spectrophotometer |
23. |
Ion Analyzer |
24. |
Photo Meter – SQ118 |