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Gangasagar Mela
CLEAN AND GREEN - GANGASAGAR MELA • Background Sagar Island also known as Gangasagar is a large island with an area of around 300 km². It has 43 villages and a population of over 1,67,000. This island is famous for Hindu Pilgrimage Gangasagar mela. The pilgrimage is held for almost a week around the Makarsankranti. The expected population for the fair 2016 was around 1.5 million. The Gangasagar festival and pilgrimage is held every year on Sagar Island's southern tip, where the mighty Ganga enters the Bay of Bengal. Every year on the day of Makar Sankranti (14 or 15 January), hundreds of thousands of Hindus take a holy dip at the confluence. Around 1.5 million pilgrims visited Gangasagar mela in 2016. As the number of pilgrims increased over the years, the pressures of the large gathering began to leave their impact on the environment. By the late 20th century the Gangasagar mela gained a reputation for being dirty and ridden with foul stench that came from the human excreta on the beaches and other areas on the mela ground. In 2016, under the leadership of the District Magistrate of South 24 Parganas District, efforts were focused on driving a social movement for the elimination of open defecation in the district as well as the Mela ground. The Gangasagar Mela provided an excellent opportunity to engage and influence pilgrims, who came from across India, on water, sanitation and hygiene practices, and specifically on stopping open defecation throughout the mela. The mela provided a platform with a huge potential to create awareness and motivate changes in attitudes around key WASH behaviours, particularly open defecation. -
Global Environmental Change 50 (2018) 123–132
Global Environmental Change 50 (2018) 123–132 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Global Environmental Change journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/gloenvcha Political economy of planned relocation: A model of action and inaction in T government responses ⁎ Colette Mortreuxa, Ricardo Safra de Camposa, W. Neil Adgera, , Tuhin Ghoshb, Shouvik Dasb, Helen Adamsc, Sugata Hazrab a Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK b School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India c Department of Geography, King’s College London, UK ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: Planned relocation has been shown to have significant impacts on the livelihoods and wellbeing of people and Planned relocation communities, whether the resettlement process is inclusive or coercive. For states, planned relocation represents Resettlement risks to those communities but also to government investments and political legitimacy. Evaluations of re- Climate change locations commonly focus on the risks and benefits of government interventions while overlooking the con- Political economy sequences of not intervening. Here we develop a conceptual framework to examine the factors that influence Power government decision-making about whether or not to undertake planned relocation of populations in the context Migration India of environmental change. The study examines planned relocation decisions and non-decisions by government agencies in West Bengal in India for communities seeking relocation due to coastal flooding. It focuses on three localities facing river erosion losing significant land areas in small islands and communities where populations recognize the need for public intervention, but where there has been a diversity of responses from the state authorities. Data are derived from interviews with key respondents involved in planning and implementing relocation and with residents affected by those government decisions (n = 26). -
District South 24 Parganas Hydrogeological Map
88°0'0"E 88°15'0"E 88°30'0"E 88°45'0"E 89°0'0"E 22°45'0"N 22°45'0"N DISTRICT SOUTH 24 PARGANAS HYDROGEOLOGICAL MAP North 24 Parganas Bhangar-II 22°30'0"N ± 22°30'0"N Bhangar-I Haora District Budge Budge-I Sonarpur Budge Budge-II Bishnupur-I B Canning-II A Bishnupur-II G Baruipur L Falta A D Canning-I E Magrahat-II Diamond Harbour-II 22°15'0"N S 22°15'0"N Jaynagar-I H Magrahat-I Diamond Harbour-I East Medinipur Jaynagar-II District Mandirbazar Kulpi Mathurapur-I 22°0'0"N Kultali 22°0'0"N Mathurapur-II Kakdwip . Patharpratima R l r a e g n a v m i i a R R i r l e g v u i SAGAR ISLAND r R H e 21°45'0"N 21°45'0"N r v a i e g R n v i a h r R b e a Namkhana i v r a i l a t R H n a i a a M r b u a k s a o h G Legend T Rock Type B A Y O F B E N G A L Very fine sands and silts 21°30'0"N 21°30'0"N Sands,silts and dark grey clays Greyish black clay District Boundary 0 5 10 20 30 40 Kilometers Silty clay interbanded with sand and silt Block Boundary Projection & Geodetic System:GCS,WGS 1984 Symbol Rock Type Age Lithology Aquifer Description Hydrogeology The groudwater yield is 40lit/ Alternate layers of Middle Holocene Flood plane of river basin Aquifer with primary intergranular sec 21°15'0"N sand,silt and dark grey with levee,flood basin zone etc. -
Enhancement of Productivity of Traditional Paddy with Diversified Organic Inputs at Sagar Island, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India
June 1, 2020 ISSN 2394-885X [IISRR- International Journal of Research; ; ] Vol-6; Issue- I Enhancement of Productivity of Traditional Paddy with Diversified Organic Inputs at Sagar Island, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India Amales Misra1 Santanu Mitra2 Summary: This paper is in continuation our six years' (since 2014) activities on the cultivation of traditional paddy varieties, including salt tolerant ones with diversified organic inputs for supplying necessary nutrients and also as pest repellents at Sagar & Patharpratima Block, with the objective of enhancing productivity of salt tolerant paddy varieties; which requires no chemicals, so that the farmers could revert back to cultivating them. The traditional varieties of paddy (nearly 125 in number) were cultivated in our Biodiversity Conservation Park, a project of the W.B. Biodiversity Board, of which at least 14 varieties are proved having good results with respect to yield in local saline soil. Local resources (cow dung, cow urine, liquid starches, palm juice/ molasses, paddy straw ash, poultry litter, mustard cake), mixed and named SAGAR SONNA, used for supplying necessary nutrients. In addition, leaf juice mixture of Neem, Karanja, Nishinda, etc., fish tonic, Jeebamrutha, etc are used in combination for getting good results. Climate resilient varieties of paddy were also recorded. 1. Introduction: The modern agriculture (High External Input mono-cropping Agriculture), focuses on the practices which are away from biodiversity conservation. As a result, the genetic base of traditional paddy seed varieties, inherently more compatible with local climatic & farming conditions, gradually being reduced considerably and several traditional paddy seed varieties are now facing extinction. These varieties were also more resistant to pests, diseases, droughts and floods. -
School Level Educational Landscape with Respect to Poverty in Some Coastal Blocks of South 24 Parganas District: a Synoptic View
Pramana Research Journal ISSN NO: 2249-2976 School Level Educational Landscape with respect to Poverty in some Coastal Blocks of South 24 Parganas District: A Synoptic View Satyajit Dharaa & Kaustuv Bhattacharyyab1* a. Assistant Professor of A.J.C. Bose College, Kolkata – 20. E-mail : [email protected] b. Assistant Professor, The West Bengal University of Teachers’ Training, Education Planning and Administration [i.e.,erstwhile David Hare Training College],Kolkata – 19. E-mail : [email protected] Abstract Poverty is one of the most important socioeconomic problems in developing and less developed countries. It hinders the progress of a nation. Poverty erodes economic and social rights such as the right to health, adequate housing, food, safe drinking water and right to education. Due to globalisation the demand of higher education is increasing day by day. But for the quantitative and qualitative development of education it requires huge expenditure in the educational field. In such a circumstance - poverty is one of the most vivid problems for the spread of education in poor socioeconomic regions of a country. Better educational infrastructure can support better educational opportunities for the students. The South 24 Parganas district is situated to the extreme southern part of West Bengal. At present there are 29 blocks in this district. The southern part of the district is under the Indian Sundarban region, adjacent to the Bay of Bengal. The coastal blocks of South 24 Parganas district are Basanti-I, Canning-I&II, Gosaba, Jaynagar-I&II, Kakdwip, Sagar, Namkhana, Patharpratima, Kultali, Mathurapur-I&II. The people living here are facing high poverty and natural calamities. -
Consolidated Daily Arrest Report Dated 08-02-2021 Sl
CONSOLIDATED DAILY ARREST REPORT DATED 08-02-2021 SL. No Name Accused Alias Sex Age Father/ Spouse Address PS of residence District/PC of Ps Name District/PC Name Case/ GDE Ref. Name residence of Accused 1 Nur Alam M 19 Nur Hussain 9th mile, Falakata Alipurduar Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon PS Case No : Umacharanpur PS: 141/21 US- Falakata Dist.: Alipurduar 2 Rabi Charan 32 Thaneswar Marakhata, PS- Kumargram Alipurduar Kumargram Alipurduar Kumargram PS Case No : Mochary Mochary Kumargram, Dist 20/21 US-46A(a)(b) IPC Alipurduar PS: Kumargram Dist.: Alipurduar 3 Surojit Mandal M 21 Bipul Mandal Ramgaon near Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon PS GDE No. 254 College PS: Jaigaon Dist.: Alipurduar 4 Sagar Chhetri M 27 Lt Lok Bdr Hatipota bazaar PS: Samuktala Alipurduar Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon PS GDE No. 254 Chhetri Samuktala Dist.: Alipurduar 5 Subrata M 24 Prasanto Daskin Satali PS: Kalchini Alipurduar Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon PS GDE No. 254 Basumata Basumata Kalchini Dist.: Alipurduar 6 Sani Sarki M 35 Gopal Sarki Radharani TG PS: Kalchini Alipurduar Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon PS GDE No. 254 Kalchini Dist.: Alipurduar 7 Dewan M 18 Ajay Chhetri 03 no Toorsa TG PS: Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon PS GDE No. 254 Chhetri Jaigaon Dist.: Alipurduar 8 Nikhil M 18 Nakul Do PS: Jaigaon Dist.: Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon PS GDE No. 254 Biswakarma Biswakarma Alipurduar 9 Swargadeb M 21 Guiv Das Roy Birpara Collegepara Birpara Alipurduar Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon PS GDE No. 254 Roy PS: Birpara Dist.: Alipurduar 10 Amal Sarkar M 21 Dhukiram Sarkar Birpara Subashpally Birpara Alipurduar Jaigaon Alipurduar Jaigaon PS GDE No. -
Government of West Bengal Office of the District
District Disaster Management Plan, South 24 Parganas 2015 Government of West Bengal Office of the District Magistrate, South 24 Parganas District Disaster Management Department New Treasury Building, (1 st Floor) Alipore, Kolkata-27 . An ISO 9001:2008 Certified Organisation : [email protected] , : 033-2439-9247 1 District Disaster Management Plan, South 24 Parganas 2015 Government of West Bengal Office of the District Magistrate, South 24-Parganas District Disaster Management Department Alipore, Kolkata- 700 027 An ISO 9001:2008 Certified Organisation : [email protected] , : 033-2439-9247 2 District Disaster Management Plan, South 24 Parganas 2015 3 District Disaster Management Plan, South 24 Parganas 2015 ~:CONTENTS:~ Chapter Particulars Page No. Preface~ 5 : Acknowledgement 6 Maps : Chapter-1 i) Administrative Map 8 ii) Climates & Water Bodies 9 Maps : iii) Roads & Railways 10 iv) Occupational Pattern 11 ~ v) Natural Hazard Map 12 District Disaster Management Committee 13 List of important phone nos. along with District Control 15 Room Number Contact number of Block Development Officer 16 Contact Details of Municipality, South 24 Parganas 17 Contact number of OC Disaster Management & 18 Chapter-2: SDDMO/BDMO Other important contact number 19 Contact details State Level Disaster Management Contact Number 26 Contact Details of Police, South 24 Parganas 29 Contact Details of PHE , PWD & I & W 35 Contact details of ADF (Marine), Diamond Harbour 37 List of Block wise GR Dealers with their contact details, 38 South 24 Parganas The Land & the River 43 Demography 49 Chapter-3: Multi Hazard Disaster Management Plan 57 District Profile History of Disaster, South 24 Parganas 59 Different types of Natural Calamities with Dos & don’ts 60 Disaster Management Plan of District Controller (F&S) 71 Chapter: 4 Disaster Disaster Management Plan of Health 74 Disaster Management Plan of WB Fire & Emergency Management Plan 81 of Various Services. -
Surviving in the Sundarbans: Threats and Responses
SURVIVING IN THE SUNDARBANS: THREATS AND RESPONSES focuses on the conduct of different groups and various agencies, and attempts to understand this conduct in the context of deteriorating ecosystem integrity, and heightened vulnerability of human society, where natural processes are averse to human presence, and where the development process is weak. The study explores the socio-political and physical complexities within which sustainable development strategies need to be developed. The emphasis is not so much on how to develop these strategies but on understanding the contrasting forces, competing interests, and contradictions in operation. DANDA In this study the concept of collective or self-organised action is used as an analytical tool to help unravel the complex interactions that take place at different levels and to shed light on conditions associated with better management of the various contradictions at play in the eco-region. Surviving in the Sundarbans: It is argued that the unique eco-region of the Sundarbans requires special policy measures to address ecological sustainability and distributional equity, to overcome the ills that undermine human well-being, and to ensure that Threats and Responses people of this eco-region have the choices to live the way they like and value what they have reason to value. S u r v i v i n g i n t h e S u n d a r b a n s : T h r e a t s a n d R e s p o n s e s 2007 SURVIVING IN THE SUNDARBANS: THREATS AND RESPONSES An analytical description of life in an Indian riparian commons DISSERTATION to obtain the doctor´s degree at the University of Twente, on the authority of the rector magnificus, prof. -
Possible Impact of Cruise Tourism on Potential Livelihood Generation
Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Conceptual Plan for Integrating Community-based Tourism along the Bangladesh- India Protocol Route for Inland Navigation Third Draft Report CUTS International Public Disclosure Authorized 1 Table of Contents Chapter 1: Background .................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 SAWI Sundarbans Focus Area Program ...................................................................................... 5 1.2 Potential of developing River Cruise Tourism between Bangladesh and India .......... 7 1.3 Objectives of the Proposed Assignment ..................................................................................... 8 1.4 Approach and Methodology ............................................................................................................ 8 1.5 Challenges faced during the study ................................................................................................ 9 Chapter 2: Heritage, Nature and Tourist Attraction in the Sundarban landscape ....... 11 2.1 Brief History of Human Settlement in Sundarbans: A timeline ...................................... 11 2.2 History of Conservation in Sundarbans: A timeline ............................................................ 12 2.3 History of Inland Waterways: ...................................................................................................... 13 2.4 Places of Historical and Religious -
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Project Concept for Enhancing Livelihoods in Sagar Island, Sundarbans
Project Concept for Enhancing Livelihoods in Sagar Island, Sundarbans June 2008 Sundarbans Development Board Sundarbans Affairs Department Government of West Bengal Project Concept for Enhancing Livelihoods in Sagar Island Project Concept for Enhancing Livelihoods in Sagar Island Revised Draft PROJECT CONCEPT For Enhancing Livelihoods in Sagar Island, Sundarbans Project Concept for Enhancing Livelihoods in Sagar Island Contents Introduction 3 Sundarbans 3 Sagar Island 6 Rationale 7 Livelihoods Concept 8 Livelihoods in Sagar 9 Livelihoods of the Poor in Sagar 12 Project Concept 13 Way Forward for the Project Concept 13 Budget 18 Conclusion 20 Annexure I: Sagar Island: a profile at a glance 21 Annexure I: Livelihoods Framework 22 Annexure III: Betel Vine Value Chain 28 Annexure IV: Sagar Island in LF Perspective 29 Project Concept for Enhancing Livelihoods in Sagar Island INTRODUCTION Indian has a coastline of about 8000 km. Nearly 250 million people are living within 50km of the coast. About 20 per cent of them are poor and the most marginalized. Being on the coast, places them at the mercy of the nature. Their life and livelihoods carry great risk. Until now management of India’s coastal zone was more regulatory in nature as per the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991. This approach provided little room for promotion of conservation and economic activities in the coasts. Therefore in 2004, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) constituted an expert committee headed by M.S. Swaminathan, to review the Notification. The committee recommended many reforms towards conservation of ecosystems, promotion of economic activity and poverty reduction in coastal areas in a more strategic, decentralized and scientific way. -
Significance of Embankments Breaching in Southern Blocks of South 24 Parganas District, West Bengal
© 2018 JETIR August 2018, Volume 5, Issue 8 www.jetir.org (ISSN-2349-5162) SIGNIFICANCE OF EMBANKMENTS BREACHING IN SOUTHERN BLOCKS OF SOUTH 24 PARGANAS DISTRICT, WEST BENGAL Hirak Sarkar Research Scholar Department of Geography The University of Burdwan, East Badhaman, India Abstract: The embankments in Southern Blocks of South 24 Parganas District, West Bengal protect the ecological as well as cultural resources from the tidal inundation have been breached frequently caused by physical, climatic, biotic and several other factors. Such breaching of the embankments severely damaged the bases of subsistence of human life and the species-rich unique estuarine ecosystem of the Sundarbans. The human settlement in the Bengal delta has been only possible due to the reclamation of the premature land by embankment construction and deforestation. But the cultural landscape of the region has been threatened by the breaching of those man-made impediments due to tidal ingression and other hydro- meteorological hazards like cyclones and storm surges. The human settlements and the economic bases of subsistence such as cultivable land, fisheries and sources of drinking water have been severely affected due to the ingression of saline water during breaching which leads to loss of human life and property; displacement of poor rural folks from their native places, destined to move elsewhere in destitute condition without any economic wealth and security. The natural and cultural ecosystem of the Southern Blocks of the District namely Sagar, Kultali, Basanti, Patharpratima, Gosaba and Namkhana have experienced the devastating impact of embankment breaching. The study, therefore, aims at coming across the solutions of the problems of embankment breaching in the area and formulation of better planning and mitigation strategies so that the ecology as well as the economy of the concerned area have become protected from the tidal erosion and inundation.