Dipankar Chakraborti, Sushant K. Singh, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Rathindra Nath Dutta et al.
This study highlights the severity of arsenic contamination in the Ganga River basin (GRB), which encompasses significant geographic portions of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Tibet. The entire GRB experiences elevated levels of arsenic in the groundwater (up to 4730 µg/L), irrigation water (~1000 µg...
Dipankar Chakraborti, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Amitava Mukherjee, Mohammad Alauddin et al.
Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE), Bangladesh first identified their groundwater arsenic contamination in 1993. But before the international arsenic conference in Dhaka in February 1998, the problem was not widely accepted. Even in the international arsenic conference in West-Bengal, In...
Dipankar Chakraborti, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Bhaskar Das, Bishwajit Nayak et al.
Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Kshitish Chandra Saha, Shymapada Pati, Rathindra Nath Dutta et al.
INTRODUCTION: To understand the severity of related health effects of chronic arsenic exposure in West Bengal, a detailed 3-year study was carried out in Murshidabad, one of the nine arsenic-affected districts in West Bengal. METHODS: We screened 25,274 people from 139 arsenic-affected villages in M...
Surajita Banerjee, Kamalesh Sarkar, Soma Gupta, Prasanta Sinha Mahapatra et al.
BACKGROUND: Implementation of Multi drug Therapy (MDT) regimen has resulted in the decline of the total number of leprosy cases in the world. Though the prevalence rate has been declining, the incidence rate remains more or less constant and high in South East Asian countries particularly in India, ...
Bishwajit Nayak, Bhaskar Das, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee, Arup Pal et al.
A detailed study in the Sahibganj district of Jharkhand state in the middle Ganga plain was carried out to determine the severity of groundwater arsenic contamination and related adverse health effects due to chronic arsenic exposure. Arsenic was analyzed by flow injection hydride generation atomic ...
Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Khitish Chandra Saha, Subhas Chandra Mukherjee, Shyamapada Pati et al.
Abhijit Das, Antara Das, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Bhaskar Das et al.
On the basis of our survey and analysis of arsenic in the hand tube wells (n = 250,000) from the Ganga–Meghna–Brahmaputra (GMB) plain (area: 569,749 km2; population: above 500 million) over the last 23 years, we revealed that some portions of all the states in Ganga–Brahmaputra plains in India and B...
Abhijit Das, Archita Dey, Bhaskar Das, Subhas C Mukherjee et al.
Not Provided, Saurabh Singh, Rathindra Nath Dutta, Prosun Bhattacharya
This paper is based on community arsenic mitigation work in villages of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar done with School of Environmental Sciences, SOES, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and Inner voice Foundation during 2004-2019.The Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra (GMB) plains of India and Bangladesh, are the ...