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West Tripura District, Tripura
कᴂद्रीय भूमि जल बो셍ड जल संसाधन, नदी विकास और गंगा संरक्षण विभाग, जल शक्ति मंत्रालय भारत सरकार Central Ground Water Board Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti Government of India AQUIFER MAPPING AND MANAGEMENT OF GROUND WATER RESOURCES WEST TRIPURA DISTRICT, TRIPURA उत्तर पूिी क्षेत्र, गुिाहाटी North Eastern Region, Guwahati GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION CENTRAL GROUND WATER BOARD REPORT ON “AQUIFER MAPPING AND MANAGEMENT PLAN OF WEST TRIPURA DISTRICT, TRIPURA” (AAP 2017-18) By Shri Himangshu Kachari Assistant Hydrogeologist Under the supervision of Shri T Chakraborty Officer In Charge, SUO, Shillong & Nodal Officer of NAQUIM, NER CONTENTS Page no. 1. Introduction 1-20 1.1 Objectives 1 1.2 Scope of the study 1 1.2.1 Data compilation & data gap analysis 1 1.2.2 Data Generation 2 1.2.3 Aquifer map preparation 2 1.2.4 Aquifer management plan formulation 2 1.3 Approach and methodology 2 1.4 Area details 2-4 1.5Data availability and data adequacy before conducting aquifer mapping 4-6 1.6 Data gap analysis and data generation 6 1.6.1 Data gap analysis 6 1.6.2 Recommendation on data generation 6 1.7 Rainfall distribution 7 1.8 Physiography 7-8 1.9 Geomorphology 8 1.10 Land use 9-10 1.11Soil 11 1.12 Drainage 11-12 1.13 Agriculture 13-14 1.14 Irrigation 14 1.15 Irrigation projects: Major, Medium and Minor 15-16 1.16 Ponds, tanks and other water conservation structures 16 1.17 Cropping pattern 16-17 1.18 Prevailing water conservation/recharge practices 17 1.19 General geology 18-19 1.20 Sub surface geology 19-20 2. -
Prof. (Dr.) Pankaj Kumar Roy Dean of Faculty Council of Interdisciplinary Studies, Law and Management (FISLM) Professor & & Jt
Prof. (Dr.) Pankaj Kumar Roy Dean of Faculty Council of Interdisciplinary Studies, Law and Management (FISLM) Professor & & Jt. Director, School of Water Resources Engineering Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700 032, India Director, School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700 032, India Phone: +91-33-2414-6979, 2414-6161/6886, 9433106266 (M), 8617200324 (M) Fax: +91-33-2414-6886 E-mail: [email protected] & [email protected] Website: http://www.waterresources-ju.org Name (in Block Letters) : PANKAJ KUMAR ROY Date of birth : 24th January, 1975 Sex : Male Nationality : Indian Academic Qualifications Bachelor of Civil Engineering from NIT Silchar, Assam Masters of Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University Ph.D. in Engineering (Water resources engineering and management) from Jadavpur University Experiences Industrial: 2 years Teaching and Research:15 years and onwards Research guidance: Ph.D. level- 28 scholars (12 awarded) PG level- 110 scholars (awarded) Project completed: Twenty (20) Consultancy- Thirty (30) Project on-going: Four(4) Publications: Journal- 46 (National), 87 (International) Books/Monographs/Edited: Thirteen (13) Lecture delivered as invited speaker: Twelve (12) Refresher/Training courses/Seminar/Workshop organised/attended: Fifteen (15) Member of Learned Societies and /Professional Bodies: Ten (10) Project undertaken (Project Investigator and co-Investigator): Forty eight (48) Teaching Experience Designation Institute Period Assistant Professor 2006-2014 Associate Professor 2014-2017 -
Chapter 6 Forest Communities & Cprs in the Hill Region
Chapter 6 Forest Communities & CPRs in the Hill Region 6.1 Introduction The region to be studied lies within the Eastern Himalaya which is a biodiversity hotspot little explored as yet by Government scientific agencies like the Botanical Survey of India [BSI] and the Zoological Survey of India [ZSI]. This makes it an important conservation zone, with an approximate area of 15000 sq. km. of forests having already been committed to designated Protected Areas. However imposition of statutory control over regional forests has been accompanied by large scale diversion of forest lands to plantations, agriculture and urban settlement. Economic development has also been accompanied by high levels of immigration which have brought forests in the region under extreme pressure, threatening their very survival. Study of the status of property rights and the patterns of use of CPRs, woodfuels and other forest resources is thus expected to throw light on the interdependence of human communities, economic development and natural resources in a region of the Himalaya where significant forests still survive. By documenting forest access and CPR-use by the communities that live on the very edge of subsistence at the forest fringe~ we make an attempt to meaningfully contribute towards the operationalisation of sustainable development through the means of self-governing social control systems. The present chapter and the next are based on the case-studies undertaken in the two northern districts of Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri in West Bengal respectively. 6.1.1 Geographical Description and Position of the Darjeeling district. Darjeeling is a small district that lies between 26°31' and 27°13' North latitude and between 87° 59' and 88° 53' East longitude in the extreme north of the state of West Bengal in India. -
SALMA SULTANA 9425 Castle Pines Dr • Austin, Texas 78717• 512 413 1226• [email protected]
SALMA SULTANA 9425 Castle Pines Dr • Austin, Texas 78717• 512 413 1226• [email protected] EDUCATION 2008 Ph.D, Geography, Jadavpur University, India 2003 M.Phil, Remote Sensing & GIS, University of North Bengal, India 2001 M.Sc, Geography, University of Burdwan, India 1999 B.Sc, Geography (Honors), University of Burdwan, India PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2013 - 2017 Research Fellow, University of Texas, Austin 2010 2013 Assistant Professor, Aliah University, India - 2010 - 2010 Assistant Professor, Mrinalini Datta Mahavidyapith, India 2009 - 2010 Lecturer, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, India 2007 - 2009 Research Associate, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, India RESEARCH INTEREST Application of Remote Sensing & Geographical Information System, Environmental Issues in Geography and Sustainable Development, Interaction between People and Physical Environment, Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Change. SPECIALIZED TRAINING ON REMOTE SENSING & GIS - “Remote Sensing Technology And its Applications including Image Processing, Pattern Recognition & GIS” from NRSA, Dept. of Space, Govt. of India, HYDERABAD.2003 - “Digital Mapping And Geographical Information System” NATMO, National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO), Govt. of India, Kolkata.2002 - “Remote Sensing And Geographical Information System” from National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO), Govt. of India, Kolkata.2001 - “Application of Aerial Photography in Thematic Mapping” from National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO), Govt. of India, Kolkata.2000 - “GEOMEDIA PROFESSIONAL” ROLTA INDIA Limited, Mumbai, India. - 21st Century GISADV EDU Easy GIS with image Analysis & Terrain Modeling from Twenty first century Solutions, Kolkata RESEARCH PROJECT CARRIED OUT/RESEARCH INTEREST 1. May, 2009 - April, 2010 “Sacred Groves and Biodiversity Conservation – Birbhum,West Bengal” West Bengal Higher Education Department Joint Project Co- ordinator (Netaji Institute for Asian Studies.) 2. -
Dr. Nibedita Das (Pan) Date of Birth: 03.05.1961 (Office) +91 381 2379152; Dr
Name: Dr. Nibedita Das (Pan) Date of Birth: 03.05.1961 (office) +91 381 2379152; Dr. Phone numbers : (mobile) +91 94361 34923; 8794996975 Nibedita [email protected] E-mails : Das (Pan) [email protected] Fax : +91 381 237 4802 Academic M.Sc., B.Ed., Ph.D. Qualifications : Present Associate Professor Designation/position : Topics Taught : Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Disaster Management, Hydrology, Geography of North-east India and Tripura, Fluvial Geomorphology (Special Paper) Publications (year wise) : Research papers in refereed journal having ISSN 1. Debnath, J., Das (Pan), N., Sharma, R., Ahmed, I. (2019): ‘Impact of confluence on hydrological and morphological characters of the trunk stream: A study on the Manu River of North-east India’, Environmental Earth Sciences, Springer Nature Publication, 78:190, doi.org/10.1007/s12665-019- 8190-7. ISSN 1866-6280 (print), 1866-6299 (web), Impact Factor: 1.765. 2. Bhowmik, M., Das (Pan), N., Das, C., Ahmed, I. and Debnath, J. (2018): ‘Bank material characteristics and its impact on river bank erosion, West Tripura District, Tripura, North-East India’, Current Science (Research Communications), 115(8), pp. 1571-1576, ISSN 0011-3891, Impact Factor: 0.883. 3. Ahmed, I., Das (Pan), N., Debnath, J. and Bhowmik, M. (2018): ‘Erosion-induced channel migration and its impact on dwellers in the lower Gumti River, Tripura, India’, Spatial Information Research, Springer Publication, 26(5), pp. 537-549, ISSN 2366-3286 (Print), 2366-3294 (Online). 4. Istak Ahmed, Nibedita Das (Pan), Jatan Debnath, Moujuri Bhowmik (2017): An assessment to prioritise the critical erosion-prone sub-watersheds for soil conservation in the Gumti basin of Tripura, North-east India, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Springer Publication, Vol. -
21 Appendix.Pdf
+ APPEND X-I A INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY AREA: DARJEELING HILL AREAS 1.1 LOCATION AND BOUNDARY There are four subdivisions in the area of the Darjeeling district. Of which one of the subdivision falls under plain area (Siliguri have been excluded, from the study. The rest of the three subdivisions viz. Darjeeling, Kurseong and Kalimpong form the universe of the study. These three subdivisions comprises of following eight blocks namely Pulbazar-Darjeeling, Sukhia-Jorebunglow, and Rangli Rangliot in Darjeeling subdivision, Mirik and Kurseong in Kurseong Subdivision and Kalimpong-I, Kalimpong-II and Gorubathan in Kalimpong subdivision. Siliguri has been excluded because it has separate entity and that it falls out of Hill development Programmed. Beside with the formation of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council in 1986 there has been much bifurcation of developmental programme. The hill area of the Darjeeling covers an area of 2417.25 Sq.Km. It accounts for 2.72% ofthe total area ofthe state of West Bengal. The Hill area lies between 26° 3 t' and 27°13' north latitude and between 87°59' and 88° 33 '. East longitude .. It is bounded by Sikkim in the North, Bhutan on the East, Nepal on the West, Dist of Jalpaiguri and Siliguri subdivision in the South 1.2 BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DARJEELING The history of Darjeeling hill areas begins with the acquisition of the hilly tract, measuring 138 sq. miles comprising areas from Pankhabari to Badamtam, for setting up health resorts by British for its employees from the Raja ofSikkim in 1835. The District acquired the present dimension in 1866 as a result of wars with Sikkim and Bhutan between the period 1850 and 1866 Origin of Name: The name Darjeeling is a corruption of Dorji, the precious stone or ecclesiastical sceptre, which is emblematic ofthe thunderbolt ofSekhra (Indra) and a 'ling' to denote Place. -
District Census Handbook Darjeeling, Part X-C, Series-22, West Bengal
CENSUS 1971 SERIES 22 WEST BENGAL DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK DARJEELING PART x-c. DIRECTORATE OF CENSUS OPERATIONS, WEST BENGAL Price: (Inland) Rs. 20.00 Paise; (Foreign) £ 2.33 or 7 $ 20 cents. PUBLISHED BY THE CONTROLLER, GOVERNMENT PRINTING, WEST BENGAL AND PRINTED BY ART ENGRAVERS, 2B. GARCHA 1sT LANE, CALCUTTA-700019 1980 ( ii i ) DARJEELING AT A GLANCE Area 3,075.0 Sq. Km. Number of Subdivisions 4 Number of Police Stations 13 Number of Towns: Total 4 Municipal 4 Non-Municipal .. Number of mauzas 590 Number of inhabited mauzas 007 Population: Total 781,777 Rural 601,565 Urban 180,212 Proportion of urban population to total population 23.05% Sex Ratio 882 Density of population 254 Sq. Km. Growth of population ('~1~71). "' 25.16% ;.... ~" ..... Literacy (excluding age-'cir_aup 0-4) : Total 38.48% Males 48.24% Females 27.24% Number of Workers 282,442 Percentage of Workers to Total Population 36.13% Employment pattern of workers : Number of Percentage to total Category of Work«s persons Workers ( 1 ) ( 2) (3) (i) Cultivators 86,054 30.47 (ii) Agricultural Labourers 25,783 9.13 (iii) Other Workers 170,605 60.40 v 1971 CENSUS PUBLICATIONS GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL PUBLICATIONS Series 22: West Bengal-Part IX-A-Administrative Atlas-Published Series 22: West Bengal-Part X-A & Band X-C 34 Volumes of District Census Handbooks lPart X-A & B) (Part X-C) (Part X-A & B) (Part X-C) Darjeeling Published Present Volume Howrah Published In Press Jalpaiguri Published In Press Calcutta Published In Press Cooch Behar Published In Press Hooghly Published -
3Rd Quarterly Report by Central Monitoring Committee (CMC)
1 BEFORE THE NATIONAL GREEN TRIBUNAL PRINCIPAL BENCH, NEW DELHI O. A. No. 673 of 2018 IN THE MATTER OF: News item published in “The Hindu” authored by Shri Jacob Koshy, titled “More river stretches are now critically polluted: CPCB” 3rd QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE CENTRAL MONITORING COMMITTEE (CMC) IN COMPLIANCE OF THE ORDER DATED 21.09.2020 (UPLOADED ON 26.09.2020) NATIONAL MISSION FOR CLEAN GANGA DEPT. OF WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION, MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, NEW DELHI FEBRUARY 2021 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Sr. Particulars Page No. No. 1. 3rd Quarterly Report of the Central Monitoring 1-101 Committee (CMC) in compliance to NGT order dated 21.09.2020 2. Annexure – I: Copy of letters/ communication made to 102-161 Chief Secretaries of the States/ UTs 3. Annexure – II: : Copy of the Minutes of Meetings 162-286 held on 30.09.2020, 09.11.2020 and 05.01.2021 4. Annexure – III: State-wise details of on-going STP 287-302 projects 5. Annexure – IV: Status of STP projects under 303-325 Tendering, DPR awaiting sanctioning and DPR under- preparation 6. Annexure – V: Status of solid waste management, 326-368 hazardous & plastic waste management, groundwater augmentation, afforestation, floodplain and e-flow management as provided by the States. 3 3nd QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE CENTRAL MONITORING COMMITTEE (CMC) IN COMPLIANCE OF THE ORDER DATED 21.09.2020 (UPLOADED ON 26.09.2020) IN THE MATTER OA No. 673 of 2018 I. General That this Hon‟ble Tribunal in matter O. A. No. 673 of 2018 is seized of the issues, amongst others, regarding remedial action to be taken for abatement of pollution in the polluted river stretches identified by the CPCB based on data collected from the SPCBs/ PCCs and preparation of “Action Plans” and their implementation by the concerned State Governments and the UTs. -
11 Employment Status and Human Development of Tea Plantation
NRPPD Discussion Paper 11 EMPLOYMENT STATUS AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT OF TEA PLANTATION WORKERS IN WEST BENGAL Namrata Thapa 2012 EMPLOYMENT STATUS AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT OF TEA PLANTATION WORKERS IN WEST BENGAL Namrata Thapa 2012 4 ABSTRACT The tea plantation sector has been considered to be a major source of livelihood and employment for the population of the regional economies. Structural changes in this sector have led to the emergence of labour categories such as permanent estate workers, casual estate workers and self employed small tea growers. Several studies have attempted to understand the human development status of the plantation workers, without much regard to these existent categories. The paper has tried to understand the human development status, in terms of education, health and basic amenities, of the plantation workers classified as permanent, casual and self employed workers. The study uses a combination of secondary evidence on the employment pattern of the workers engaged in the estates, complemented by micro level data collected from the tea plantations of the Darjeeling district of West Bengal. The findings suggest that the casual workers who had lower employment status had lower asset ownership position and hence lower standard of living indicating their lower human development. However, contrary to the notion of permanent workers in an organised industry being better off in terms of employment status, asset position and hence better standard of living; it was observed that despite their employment status being relatively better than the casual workers and small growers, their asset ownership position and hence living standard was relatively poorer than the small growers. -
Introduction
1 CHAPTER! INTRODUCTION The tribal population is identified as the aboriginal in-habitants of our country. They are seen in almost every State of India. For centuries, they have been living a simple life based on the natural environment and have developed cultural patterns congenial to their physical and social environment. References of such tribal groups are found even in the literature on the ancient period, right from Ramayana and the Mahabharata periods. The 2001 census puts the Scheduled Tribes population at 83,580,634 constituting 8.2 percent of the total population of India. Among them about 80 percent live in the 'central belt', extending from Gujarat and Rajasthan in the west, and across the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, and Jharkhand and Orissa, to West Bengal and Tripura in the east. Most of the remaining 20 percent live in the north eastern states of Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh and Sik:kim and in the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Andaman Nicobar and Lakshadweep. A few of them live in the southern states of Kerala, Tamil N adu and Karnataka. Andhra Pradesh has the largest tribal population among the southern states of India. 1.1 Meaning of 'Tribe': The term 'Tribe' is derived from the Latin word 'tribuz'. Originally it was used to imply three divisions among the early Romans. According to the Oxford dictionary, "a tribe is a group of people in a primitive or barbarous stage of development acknowledging the authority of a chief and usually regarding them as having a common ancestor". -
Darjeeling 2020-21
DISTRICT DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN DARJEELING 2020-21 Government of West Bengal Office of District Magistrate, Darjeeling Department Of Disaster Management Tel/Fax No. : 0354-2255749 Email id.: [email protected] INDEX PAGE NOS. NOS. CONTENTS Emergency Control Numbers 1. CHAPTER I – INTRODUCTION 1-4 1.1 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1 1.2 AUTHORITY FOR DDMP 1 1.3 EVOLUTION OF DDMP 2 1.4 STAKEHOLDERS AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES 3 1.5 HOW TO USE DDMP 3 1.6 APPROVAL MECHANISM OF DDMP 4 1.7 REVIEW AND UPDATEN OD D.D.M.P 4 2. CHAPTER II – DISTRICT HAZARD RISK VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT 5-27 (HRVCA) 2.1 DISTRICT PROFILE (GEOGRAPHICAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND DEMOGRAPHIC) 5 a District Landuse/Landcover Map 7 b District Geological Map 8 c District Administrative Map 9 d District Mp of Transpot Lines 10 e District Map of Settlements 11 2.2 HAZARD PROFILE 12 2.3 (i) AREAS AFFECTED BY CALAMITY (2019) 13-15 Monsoon Calamity Assessment Report (2019) 16 2.3 (ii) AREAS AFFECTED BY CALAMITY (2018) 17-21 2.4 INVENTORY OF PAST DISASTERS 20-23 2.5 HVRCA ACROSS THE FOUR SUBDIVISIONS 26-27 3. CHAPTER III - INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT 28-32 3.1 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF DISTRICT DISASTER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY 28 3.2 FUNCTIONAL FLOW AND HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF AUTHORITIES AND COMMITTEES 29 3.3 POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF DDMA 29-31 3.4 STRENGTHENING DDMA 32 4. CHAPTER IV - PREVENTIVE MITIGATION MEASURES 33-34 4.1 PREVENTIVE MEASURES ADOPTED AT EACH BLOCK 33 4.2 DISTRICT LEVEL MITIGATION PROJECTS UNDER NATIONAL LEVEL 34 4.3 PREVENTIVE GUIDELINES OF N.D.M.A FOR HEALTH EMERGENCIES – COVID-19 PANDEMIC 34 5. -
CHAPTER III Demographic Pattern in Darjeeling
CHAPTER III Demographic Pattern in Darjeeling • Growth of Population o Introduction o Growth of Population in Darjeeling • Composition of Population • Distribution of Population o Distlibution of Population According to Sex o Rural and Urban Distribution of Population o Malital Status • Conclusions CHAPTER ill Demographic Pattern in Darjeeling 3.1 Growth of Population 3.1.1 Introduction Populations have a birth rate, that is, the number of young produced per unit of population per unit of time and a death rate, that is, the number of deaths per unit of time and a growth rate. The major agent of population growth is births, and the major agent of population loss is deaths. When births exceed deaths, a population increases; and when deaths exceed additions to a population, it decreases. When births equal deaths in a given population, its size remains the same, and it is said to have zero population growth. The rate of population growth is the rate of natural increase combined with the effects of migration. Thus a high rate of natural increase can be offset by a large net out-migration, and a high level of net in-migration can counter a low.rate of natural increase. Generally speaking, however, these migration effects on population growth rates are far smaller than the effects of changes in fertility and mortality. An important and often misunderstood characteristic of human populations is the tendency of a highly fertile population that has been increasing rapidly in size to continue to do so for decades after the onset of even ~ substantial decline in fertility.