A team from the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) went to the Environment Protection Agencies (EPAs) in Peshawar, Karachi and Quetta during April 14-19 to help them install the Self Monitoring and Reporting Tools (SMART-1) Provincial Module and to train their officials on the working of the module. The SMART Provincial Module/software (on CD) was also handed over to the focal persons appointed for respective EPAs. The directors general of EPA Sindh and Balochistan took keen interest in the training program.

The training was initiated by introducing the SMART program along with background information, as a task taken up by the SDPI in its technology transfer project on the request of Pak EPA. The participants were provided with a detailed briefing on the in-flow and out-flow of data pertaining to industrial releases, both in the forms of liquid effluents and gaseous emissions. A dummy set of SMART Industrial Module was installed for their better understanding and future reference. The soft copies of User Instruction Manual for Industrial Module and relevant presentations on the SMART Industrial and Provincial Modules were provided on a CD.

The participants were given a detailed and comprehensive training on the effective use of the SMART-1 Provincial Module, which included:
· Appending industrial data in the Provincial program.
· Monitoring information pertaining to industries and their respective types.

· Producing/generating various reports on priority parameters both on the basis of Individual Plant and Plant Types wise.
· Viewing/printing the list of defaulters such as: Delinquents: Current: those who have not submitted the reports in the recent months. Consecutive: those who have not been reporting consecutively for more than three 3-4 reporting periods. Defaulters: those who are not complying with NEQS.
· Generating notices/letters to the defaulters in the SMART Program
· Generating EPA reports for Federal EPA

The SMART Industrial data reports may be viewed both in text, as well as, in graphical formats. With respect to issuing notifications to the defaulters, the participants in general, whereas the focal persons, in particular, were explained on how to generate customised notices from the system/program. This way, they would be able to alter/edit the notices/letters according to their needs in future.

At the end, again the participants, in general, but the focal persons, in particular, were told about the importance of taking regular back-ups of their data files. They were also told on how to save the data files received from Industries as well as the EPA reports in proper chronological order in the PCs.

At the end of the training programme, SDPI was presented with a letter of acknowledgment by the focal persons of each provincial EPA for the services provided, vis-à-vis the delivery of successful training program and handing over of SMART-1 Provincial database.