West Bengal

Water job via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated 24th February, 2011
Posted on 24 Feb, 2011 11:54 AM

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  • Business Development Manager

            Water for People

            Location: Kolkata
            Last Date: 15th March, 2011

Ujaan: Festival for the Sunderbans, 10th to 12th March 2011, Frasergunj-Bakkhali, Sunderban district, West Bengal
Posted on 24 Feb, 2011 11:31 AM

Ujaan FestivalOrganizer: Ujaan

Venue: Frasergunj-Bakkhali, Sunderban district, West Bengal

The Dam Safety Bill (2010) – Ministry of Water Resources
The pending Bill seeks to provide for the surveillance, inspection and operation of all dams of certain parameters to ensure their safe functioning. Posted on 27 Dec, 2010 11:00 AM

The Dam Safety bill, 2010 introduced in the Lok Sabha in August 2010 and approved by the cabinet earlier this year was referred to the Standing Committee on Water Resources, which was scheduled to submit its report within three months. The bill which is still pending seeks to provide for the surveillance, inspection and operation of all dams of certain parameters to ensure their safe functioning.

Water Jobs via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated December 22, 2010
Posted on 22 Dec, 2010 11:27 AM

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  • State Consultant, Water Safety and Security

Ma Foi Consulting Solutions Limited

International Symposium on “System Intensification towards Food & Environmental Security”, CWSS, BCKV, Nadia, West Bengal
Posted on 10 Dec, 2010 05:17 PM

                                           Crop and Weed Science Society (CWSS)

Paving the way for the control of Cholera and Typhoid fever in Kolkata - A research project report of the NICED-IVI collaboration
Cholera and typhoid consume lives even today in the Eastern Kolkata slums. This research seeks to generate enough data to help planning and implementation of vaccines against the two. Posted on 13 Nov, 2010 08:43 AM

This collaborative research work between National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata and International Vaccine Institute (IVI), Seoul under the Diseases of the Most Impoverished (DOMI) Program, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aims to give useful information for the prevention and control of typhoid fever and cholera. The aim is to accelerate the introduction of new generation vaccines against cholera, shigellosis, and typhoid fever, through research and capacity-building. 

The burden of cholera in the slums of Kolkata - A community based study by NICED
Measuring the burden of cholera; this paper searches for potential risk factors that need immediate addressal by public health strategies. Posted on 12 Nov, 2010 12:29 AM

This paper by National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) is based on a prospective, community based study in an impoverished urban site in Kolkata in order to measure the burden of cholera, describe its epidemiology, and search for potential risk factors that could be addressed by public health strategies. The study population was enumerated at the beginning and end of the study period. Surveillance through five field outposts and two referral hospitals for acute, watery, non-bloody diarrhoea was conducted from May 2003 to April 2004.

A case study of Dongs – The traditional water management system of the Bodo people
Bodo people have used Doongs to support agriculture for centuries. Understanding these doongs and the people Posted on 05 Nov, 2010 05:24 PM

This report by  SDTT presents a case study on the traditional water management system of the bodo people in Assam and North Bengal, the dongs. Dongs are man-made structures akin to canals, to route water from available water sources, which are usually perennial, to the paddy cultivating fields. The water sources are small rivers, perennial swamps, beel, streams, etc. Dong can have a breadth of 7-15 feet on average or even more. The breadth gradually increases over the course of its flow from the source till the end point.

The unsung struggles of Safai Karamchari - Updates on Samajik Parivartan Yatra
A fight to claim and acknowledge existence. Safai karamchari silently sing their tales of their unappreciated and often disregarded work and their own unacknowledged lives Posted on 25 Oct, 2010 10:30 AM

 

Birsa Munda Marg

7th Oct

The Birsa Munda Marga - Samajik Parivarthan Yatra, started in Dibrugarh, Assam on 7th October at 3 p.m.

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