Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, No. 46 (2019): 103–118 http://doi.org/10.2478/bog-2019-0037 BULLETIN OF GEOGRAPHY. SOCIO–ECONOMIC SERIES journal homepages: https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bog/bog-overview.xml ISSN 1732–4254 quarterly http://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/BGSS/index The impact of population displacement due to river bank erosion on the education of erosion victims: a study in jangipur sub-division of murshidabad district, West Bengal, India Debika Ghosh1, CDFMR, Abhay Sankar Sahu2, MR Krishnagar Govt. College, Faculty of Geography, Department of Geography, Krishnagar, Nadia, West Bengal, India; 1phone: +918926059023, e-mail:
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[email protected] How to cite: Ghosh, D. and Sahu A.S. (2019). The impact of population displacement due to river bank erosion on the education of erosion victims: a study in jangipur sub-division of murshidabad district, West Bengal, India. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 46(46): 103-118. DOI: http://doi.org/10.2478/bog-2019-0037 Abstract. The present research aims to find out whether population displacement Article details: due to river bank erosion has any impact on education of the erosion victims of Received: 7 July 2019 the developing countries or not. To fulfil the objective of the study, 19 erosion af- Revised: 12 August 2019 fected study units were selected along the banks of the Ganga-Bhagirathi river in Accepted: 27 September 2019 the Jangipur sub-division of Murshidabad district, West Bengal.