Report of Workshop Participatory Groundwater Management in Gosaba

Abstract

Rajarhat PRASARI in collaboration with National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Roorkee and British Geological Survey with the funding of India United Kingdom Water Centre (IUKWC) organized a workshop on Participatory Ground Water Management (PGWM) in Pathankhali Gram Panchayat of Gosaba Community Development Block. The main objective of the workshop was to initiate the pump priming project on aquifer study in the Sunderbans. The workshop was held in 14/06/2019 from 11am in the morning and ends with a lunch in the venue at 3pm. In the said workshop women leaders of local Self Help Groups (SHGs), local Gram Panchayat members, engineers, assistant engineers, surveyors and GP’s representative for water resource management were present and shared their views on their present situation of ground water. After end of the session 6 volunteers came up to take the task of regular water sample collection from their field for isotope testing whom Dr. Gopal Krishan from NIH gave hands on training with water sample collection kit (sample water collection bottles, EC, pH & TDS tester).