In an effort to reduce the production and use of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) pesticides from polluting the atmosphere and harming human lives, India has initiated a National Implementation Plan. Being a signatory to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, a national plan sensitising different stakeholders about the obligations of India as a party to the convention and to develop strategies and action plans for the reduction and elimina tion of the target chemicals. The Stockholm Convention has come into force in India in 2006. An inception workshop, participated by officials of the Union ministry of environment and forests and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation was organised recently to formally launch the programme. POPs are semi-volatile and through cycles of evaporation and atmospheric cycling are capable of travelling thousands of kilometres. The goal of national plan will be to protect human health and the envi ronment from persistent organic pollutants, including chlordane, DDT, and dioxins. Some of the issues that were taken into consideration at the workshop were alternatives to POPs pesticides, implementation mechanism of the Global Environment Facility project development in the country, inventory of intentionally produced POP's pesticides, various regulatory mechanism and the infrastructure capacity. Speaking on the issue, secretary (MoEF) Meena Gupta said that India has already done a preliminary assessment to identify this require ments in collaboration with UNIDO. She said that POPs are known to be environmentally persistent and resist breakdown by natural processes and in some cases remain in the environment for long periods. Although the POPs resists breakdown in the water, these are soluble in fatty tissues, thereby bio-available to the animals. Through the process of bio-concentration, animals can accumulate concentrations of POPs at levels many times higher than those found in the environment.