Application of multivariate statistics in the analysis of groundwater geochemistry in and around the open cast coal mines of Barjora block, Bankura district, West Bengal, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalyan Adhikari ◽  
Ujjal Mal
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Statistics ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
Groundwater Geochemistry ◽  
Bankura District ◽  
Open Cast

scholarly journals An appraisal of geohydrological status and assessment of groundwater quality of Indpur Block, Bankura District, West Bengal, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moumita Palmajumder ◽  
Susanta Chaudhuri ◽  
Vikas K. Das ◽  
Sisir K. Nag
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal ◽  
Chemical Characterization ◽  
The State ◽  
Subsurface Water ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Total Hardness ◽  
Estimation Of Parameters ◽  
Drainage Pattern ◽  
Magnesium Adsorption Ratio ◽  
Bankura District

AbstractThe present work aimed to evaluate the overall hydro-geological status of Indpur block, Bankura district, West Bengal, India. Despite of having adequate annual precipitation, south-western districts of the state of West Bengal, India, are considered to be a significantly water-stressed area of the state. This is because of unfavorable geological setting near to subsurface occurrence of impervious lithology and inundated nature of surface drainage pattern. The study was carried out both in pre- and post-monsoon seasons of 2019 to obtain an updated current status on concentration and spatiotemporal fluctuations of controlling ions of the subsurface water. Estimation of major physicochemical parameters and specific qualitative chemical characterization of groundwater were rated through field and laboratory studies. Water samples were collected from twenty-two equidistantly scattered tube wells in the block. Seasonal variations of water table elevation heads and subsurface shift of predominant recharge zones of the block were also demarked. Drinking, domestic and irrigation suitability of the block water were measured by the estimation of parameters such as Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR), Magnesium Adsorption Ratio (MAR), Soluble Sodium Percentage (SSP), Residual Sodium Carbonate (RSC), Permeability Index (PI), Total Hardness (TH) and Kelly’s ratio (KR) and piper trilinear plots. Sustainable non-availability of groundwater seems to be the major problem of the studied area, which intern resulted in overexploitation, mostly for cultivation practices causing considerable depletion of its suitability as drinking and irrigation. Further, results show that suitability of the water both for domestic and irrigation of the studied area may be termed as ‘good’ to ‘moderate’ with a few exceptions on a local scale. Judging by every parameter, it can be stated that groundwater of Indpur block is not much suitable for drinking purposes.

Air quality at open-cast coal mining regions at Hunter Valley, Australia and Ramagundam, India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harsh Kamath ◽  
Chanchal Chauhan ◽  
Sameer Mishra ◽  
Aariz Ahmed ◽  
Raman Srikanth
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
Export Market ◽  
P Value ◽  
Open Cast ◽  
Monitoring Stations

<p>The upper Hunter Valley region in New South Wales (NSW), Australia has several open-cast coal mines, which supply coal to two large thermal power plants (TPPs) in the area, beside the export market. Long-term Particulate Matter (PM) pollutants and meteorological measurements are recorded by a network of 13 NSW government-owned continuous monitoring stations in the upper Hunter Valley region. The Ramagundam area in the state of Telangana, India has similar pollution source characteristics (coal mines and TPPs), but PM pollutant measurements are largely carried out with manual monitoring stations at 24-hour intervals, not more than twice a week. As the coal and overburden excavation from open-cast coal mines and stack emissions from TPPs lead to local PM pollution, we have used MODIS-MAIAC Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) at 550 nm and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) along with the local meteorological data such as ambient temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction to model PM10 and PM2.5 at the upper Hunter Valley and Ramagundam regions. Our model can explain about 60% of variation in PM10 (p-value < 0.0001), while a similar model is able to explain about 75% of the variation in the PM2.5 (p-value < 0.0001). We will extend our model results from Hunter Valley to Ramagundam area and comment on the potential of using geospatial products such as AOD as a proxy to ground-based pollution measurements in developing countries such as India, where pollution data is scarce.</p>

scholarly journals Butterfly diversity in heterogeneous habitat of Bankura, West Bengal, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 15804-15816
Author(s):  
Kalyan Mukherjee ◽  
Ayan Mondal
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal ◽  
Diversity Indices ◽  
Species Number ◽  
Butterfly Species ◽  
Gangetic Plain ◽  
Butterfly Diversity ◽  
Heterogeneous Habitats ◽  
Heterogeneous Habitat ◽  
Chotanagpur Plateau ◽  
Bankura District

Butterfly diversity was observed in different habitats of Bankura District, West Bengal, India.  This district is located at the junction of Chotanagpur plateau and Gangetic plain; it contains a variety of transitional habitats.  We found 117 butterfly species from our covered survey area.  The highest species recorded in the present study belonged to family Lycaenidae (30.76%) and Nymphalidae (29.91%) followed by Hesperiidae (16.23%), Pieridae (13.67%), Papilionidae (8.54%), and Riodinidae (0.85%), respectively.  Based on sighting we found that 12.82% of all the butterflies recorded were abundant in nature while 21.36% were very common, 41.88% were frequent, and 23.93% were rare. Cluster analysis and other diversity indices gives us an overall idea about environmental health.  The pattern of diversity change from plain to plateau gradient gives important insight about ecological edge effect.  High species number in relation with low individual numbers were found in forest habitat.  This preliminary study showed that heterogeneous habitats could harbour many butterflies and need proper conservation efforts to sustain it. 

scholarly journals PREVALENCE OF PREHYPERTENSION AND ASSOCIATED MAJOR BEHAVIOURAL RISK FACTORS AMONG YOUNG ADULTS IN A RURAL COMMUNITY OF BANKURA DISTRICT IN WEST BENGAL

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (35) ◽  
pp. 5316-5324
Author(s):  
Eashin Gazi ◽  
Anand Acharya ◽  
Koushik Ghosh ◽  
Aditya Prasad Sarkar ◽  
Sritanu Jana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Behavioural Risk Factors ◽  
Bankura District

Constraints Perceived By the Vegetable Growers towards Excessive Use of Chemicals in Bankura District of West Bengal

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (03) ◽  
pp. 45-47
Author(s):  
Arnab Kumar Paine ◽  
Anindita Saha ◽  
Pravin Kumar Tiwari ◽  
Digvijay Singh Dhakre ◽  
Ravi Kumar Gupta
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal ◽  
Bankura District
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