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Designing and Development of a standard for school Library in West Bengal
Full text linkAn attempt has been made to evaluate the present status of school library system of West Bengal and propose a standard for the betterment of it. Total 400 school libraries from 19 districts were surveyed to analyze the overall scenario and identify the spatial variation regarding various aspects of school library. The result obtained from the overall analysis delineate that an alarming disparity is prevailing in the school libraries. Most of the school libraries are lacking permanent librarian, sufficient collection, procurement policy, catalogue and classification, proper arrangement and services. The overall assessment of schools depicts the general picture which is not sufficient for framing a standard unless measuring the disparity level among the schools belonging to different districts.Therefore, GIS techniques were adopted as a spatial analysis tool to examine the inter district variations. It was observed that the school libraries in Kolkata and its surrounding district are enjoying maximum facilities, as they are getting support from their authority. Districts like Purulia, Bankura, Darjeeling, Uttar Dinajpur and Dakshin Dinajpur are getting deprived from availing a good infrastructure and service. To reduce the discrimination, on the basis of the analysis a standard for school libraries in West Bengal has been proposed. But it is urgently required to have a central information system containing all the details of all the school libraries in West Bengal for a central database generation, information management and policy framing. Hence a basic operation layout of the School Library Information System was proposed. But for the implementation, school authority and the Government intervention will be required. It may help to resolve the problem and to mark the achievements of research in the field of the State. The outcome may guide to find the right direction in Library and Information Science research
Landscape Ecological Studies of Digha-Sankarpur Coastal Tract, West Bengal, India with Application of Remote Sensing and GIS Technology
Full text linkEnvironments and the natural multiplicity restricted inside them afford a brook of goods and services, the sustained deliverance of which remnants fundamental to community economic richness and further aspects of the social well being. Ecological goods pass on to the innate yield produced or employed by human beings. Significantly, floral and faunal services prop up life by regulating indispensable procedures for instance refinement of air and water, pollination of yields, nutrient cycling, putrefaction of squanders, and creation or rejuvenation of soils, as well as by restraining ecological circumstances by soothing climate, dropping the jeopardy of extreme events, extenuating droughts and floods, and defending soils from erosion. The benefits of these services noticeable themselves at local, regional and global scales with frequently conflicting demands between stakeholders at these diverse stages. One of the main enveloping contacts of existing worldwide transform is the hurried refuse in species and habitat multiplicity and its substitute with organically inferior and more homogenous human conquered setting of topographic units. The beating of species is a most extensively documented effect of such alteration, and as biodiversity underpins individual life sustain scheme, its loss involves important consequences for civilization. The consequences of ecological dilapidation are practiced more rigorously in developing countries, the residence of the enormous preponderance of the world’s innate resources and to the worlds deprived, who are greatly dependent on usual resources for maintaining their existing and proceeds. Driving forces for the waking of ecological dilapidations is numerous and interconnected. Community has for centuries in use for approved the services afforded by usual arrangement to some extent for the reason that they are not properly done business and are consequently disconnected from charging that imitates and advise of transforms in provide or require circumstances. Presently as markets not succeed to indicate ecological dilapidation, economic strategies commonly afford stubborn inducements that persuade it. Deficiency of evidently defined and protected property rights, lack of logical environmental policy purposes, meager enforcement of accessible guideline, dishonesty, lack of political determination and lack of institutional capability are instances of deteriorating supremacy that also guides to ecosystem dilapidation. As well as, the study has an inadequate capability to cope with the potentially disastrous consequences of environment deprivation which is aggravates by the lack of sufficient information and acquaintance concerning ecological roles and the profits they produce for civilization. The foremost purpose of this present study is to display the existing confirmation base for the benefits of environmental goods and services. To accomplish this goal, focus has been on those goods and services in relation to which there is no readily accessible information from markets. The thesis also presents a structure which associates environment to their goods and services and consequential benefits to human community. This structure can facilitate enhanced decision-making for environmental use, by signifying the full financial costs contained in trade-offs between progressions and conservation of environment. Improved information on its own determination not conveys concerning sustainable use of landscape ecology, attainable merely if this sequence is then utilized to address the drivers of environmental deprivation. This thesis and associated annexes are only capable to contact upon these procedures, which are the main theme of this entire study
Impact of Industrial Effluents on Aquatic Biota in the Mouth of Haldi River, West Bengal
Full text linkThe present study conducted to assess the physico-chemical characteristics, heavy metal of soil
and water as well as abundance composition and diversity of phytoplankton and zooplankton and
variety of fish in the mouth of Haldi river where as the industrial effluents released. It is the last
major river to joins the Haldi and Hooghly estuaries before the latter flows into sea. The
experimental work has been carried out in the mouth of Haldi river which situated in the district
of Purba Medinipur of West Bengal State [22°0ʹ56ʺN to 22°04′18″N latitude and 87°00′57″E to
88°08′40″E longitude]. Multifarious industries situated on the mouth of Haldi river namely
Indian Oil Corporation, Haldia Petrochemical Pvt. Ltd., Tata Chemicals, Pesticide unit,
Vegetable Oil, Exide Industries Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemical Pvt. Ltd. etc. A tolerable quantity of
toxic and hazardous substances is released to this important aquatic system through these
industrial effluents along with huge organic load flow from agricultural and several non point
resource. The water characteristics fully depended on the seasonal changes and tidal fluctuation
of water from the Bay of Bengal. The mouth of Haldi river divided into three separate sites
based on their released effluents, which included; Site 1 (major industrial effluent out fall at
Patikhali in Hooghly river), Site 2 (5 km down stretch from Site 2) and Site 3 (5 km above
confluence on river Haldi). The study was conducted for a period of three years from July 2014
to June 2017. During this study period trace metal content in soil (Cd, Zn, Cu,Mn,Pb) and water
(Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) the possible impact due to anthropogenic activities in this site were also
evaluated. 23 fish species and different plankton, and heavy metal effect on the fish muscle were
identified. Therefore, owing to the tidal inflow the experimental site salinity increased which
diluted the heavy metal concentration and sustained the various life forms like plankton, fishes. The dominating plankton found in the site are Spirogyra sp, Volvox sp, Anabaena sp, Nostoc sp,
Stigeoclonium sp, Brachionus sp, Keratella sp, Cyclops sp, Daphnia sp, Mysid Shrimps,
Nauplius stage etc. Moreover, phytoplankton has been found more in terms of their density and
diversity as compared to the zooplankton. Due to the abundance of various types of natural food
in water body the fish production moderately. Therefore, the Govt. agencies either central
government and state government or any other NGO’s should take proper initiative to conserve
the fish faunal diversity for a long term benefit of the local people in particular and commercial
exploitation in future
Minutes of the Departmental Committee meeting(Applied Mathematics with Oceanology and Computer Programming) held on 20.01.2020
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The Silk Industry and Silk Trade in Malda : 1770 - 1833
Full text linkHistory proves that any region or any country cannot obtain economic success without
any kind of industry. The industrial prosperity or misery depends on the nature of the
State.From the corner of world history, we know very well that a large part of the
population was always attached with different big industrial sectors, but importance of
the small scale industry could not be ignored. In this respect, I have studied the
significance of silk industry and trade of Malda as micro level study, which is fully
connected with this macro level research.
The present study mainly focuses on the nature of silk industry and silk trade of Malda
under the colonial rule. The region of Malda was very famous for her mostly outstanding
silk piece goods. All members of the family were involved in the silk culture both as part
time and full time workers, because its nature was purely home based. So, economy of
the Malda mainly depended on the silk industry and trade. Here, I have given special
attention on remarkable participation of women in the silk industryThis research takes up various segments to observe the economic life of people, mainly
engaged with the silk industry. This study starts by the year 1770 and ends with the year
1833. This time frame was known as history of dominance on sericulture of Malda. In
1770, Commercial Residency House was established and, Filature Factory at English
Bazar started functioning in the Sericulture sector.Through this system, the English East
India Company wants to capture the entire silk related economy of Malda. The
Company’s commercial activity was closed from silk trade by the Charter Act of 1833.Through the different Chapters of this research, I have tried to understand the colonial
economic motives as well as the oppression on silk workers of Malda. Up to pre-Plassey
period, demand of Malda’s silk goods both in the internal and external market was
higher than other silk producing centres, but, since Plassey, silk piece goods of Malda
lost both markets and those markets were filled by the British manufacturing goods. This
present study ‘THE SILK INDUSTRY AND SILK TRADE IN MALDA: 1770 –
1833’ based on the different Primary and Secondary sources. In this research, I have
tried to compare pre-colonial glorious prospects with conditions of ruination during the
colonial period.The condition of silk manufacturers slipped into commercial decline during the colonial
hegemony. The highly prestigious silk industry declined through the systematic
application of colonial policy. Under the colonial circumstances, different sections of
silk workers not only lost the economic prosperity, but also lost their industry based
artistic ability and social respect. They lost their work, and sustained livelihood under
poor economic condition. The colonial power destructed silk related rural economic
structure. As a result, native silk cultivators, and native small traders were treated as a
very negligible section in their own country. In this research, I have tried to observe
about the changing fortunes of the silk industry and silk trade of Malda during the
period under review
