The symposium aims to bring together academicians, researchers, scientists, students, and industrialists across the country working in diverse applications of porous media such as flow and transport in soil and groundwater, water and air filtration, enhanced oil recovery, energy storage and recovery, CO2 and H2 storage in subsurface, industrial porous media including batteries, fuel cells, adsorbents, paper, semiconductors, and membranes, targeted drug delivery, and biophysics in living porous media. It also provides a platform to disseminate knowledge, share ideas, and discuss the future of porous media research in India. This symposium also creates a platform for industrialists/entrepreneurs to showcase their state-of-the-art technologies and products.