THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON RAINWATER HARVESTING ON THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2003 AT 03:30 PM IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM OF PARIBESH BHAWAN, SALT LAKE, KOLKATA

THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON RAINWATER HARVESTING ON THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2003 AT 03:30 PM IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM OF PARIBESH BHAWAN, SALT LAKE, KOLKATA

The members of the Board, officers and other participants present in the meeting were:

  2. Shri Hirak Ghosh, IAS, Principal Secretary, Department of Environment, Govt. of West Bengal and Chairrman, West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB)
  3. Shri Laxman Seth, Chairman, Haldia Development Authority (H.D.A.)
  4. Dr. S. K. Sarkar, IAS, Member Secretary, WBPCB
  5. Shri D. Prakash, Regional Director, CGWB (E.R.)
  6. Shri Amit Chaudhury, Patton
  7. Shri A. Sanyal, HPL
  8. Shri S. Saha, Sr. Engineer, HPL
  9. Shri N. Dutta Gupta, Sr. Engineer (Env. Divn), HPL
  10. Shri Sanjay Bhudhia, Chairman, CII
  11. Shri Amitabh Ghosal, Regional Director, CII
  12. Shri J. N. Chakrabarty, Director, SWID
  13. Shri Subhash Datta, Scientist ‘C’, CGWB
  14. Shri R. K. Guha, Scientist ‘B’, CGWB
  15. Shri Biswajit Mukherjee, Project Coordinator
  16. Dr. P. K. Sikdar, Coordinator, Dept. of Env. Management, IISWBM
  17. Shri S. Neogi, IPHE, Kolkata
  18. Shri Subrata Rana, Ecodev Consultancy, Kolkata
  19. Prof. D. Guin, Retd. Professor, All India Institute of Hygiene & Public Health (AIIH&PH),
  20. Shri S. K. Neogi, Secretary General, Institute of Public Health Engineering
  21. Dr. P. B. Taron, Secretry, Arden Centre, Kolkata
  22. Shri I. Banerjee, Vice-Chairman, Arden Centre
  23. Shri P. T. Sinha Roy, Consultant, Arden Centre, Kolkata
  24. Dr. S. K Dhara, GM & Head, Strategic Planning, Business, Dev. & Customer Service
  25. Dr. Asish Ghosh, Director, Centre for Environment & Development (CED)
  26. Shri D. K. Chatterjee, DGM-Marketing, Haldia Petrochemicals
  27. Shri U. K. Das, AVP-Marketing, Patton
  28. Dr. Nitai, Kundu, Scientist, IWMED
  29. Dr. Asis Mazumdar, School of Water Resources Engg., Jadavpur University
  30. Dr. Subir Ghosh, Sr. Env. Officer, Dept. of Environment, Govt. of West Bengal
  31. Dr. D. Chakraborty, Chief Scientist, WBPCB
  32. Shri B. K. Basu, Chief Engineer, WBPCB
  33. Dr. T. K. Gupta, Sr. Env. Engineer (Planning), WBPCB
  34. Dr. Debashis Chakrabarty, Scientist ,WBPCB
  35. Smt. Avanti Roy, Env. Officer (Communications), WBPCB
  36. Shri A. Guchait, Information Officer, WBPCB

 

 

A meeting was held on 10th July 2003 in the Conference Room of Paribesh Bhawan to discuss the issues relating to rainwater harvesting in West Bengal. Shri Hirak Ghosh, Principal Secretary, Department of Environment and Chairman, West Bengal Pollution Control Board chaired the meeting.

The issues discussed and the decisions taken in the meeting, were as follows:

  2. Pertaining to the Prime Minister’s announcement to declare Water Conservation as a national mission, the Chairman, WBPCB said that a wide publicity should be given to the Prime Minister’s suggestions (copy attached) and programmes drawn up to implement them.
  3. It was decided that the HPL and the IWMED would jointly organise demonstration projects in rainwater harvesting for a few schools in Haldia.
  4. Shri Amit Chaudhury of Patton gave a presentation of a model on rooftop rainwater harvesting, that had been used in the BDO office, Andal and other places. According to his calculations, the approximate cost of harvesting rain from a rooftop of an area of 1000 Sq.ft. would be Rs.12,000/-
  5. There was a difference of opinion about the feasibility of the groundwater recharging. Doubts persisted about the usefulness of recharging groundwater in Kolkata as the water table had gone down by 5-9 meters below ground level in the past 40 years and consequently a high cost would be involved in recharging the groundwater. In this connection, it was decided that Dr. Asish Ghosh, Director, CED would prepare a document on the experience on rainwater harvesting in the State.
  6. The representative from the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) said that it would publish a status paper on the ground water in Kolkata.
  7. The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) proposed a full day workshop/ seminar on water conservation in Kolkata.

The meeting ended with thanks to the chair.

Sd/-

(H. Ghosh )
Principal Secretary,
Deptt. Of Environment
& Chairman, WBPCB

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