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water service 02 Documents available with persons Book titled - SUSTAINING CALCUTTA : Presently some documents are still lying with Dipak Roy, though he says he has given all documents. We have handed over all major documents to Tapash Bhattacharyya, Advocate of Calcutta High Court with an intention that he will take up the matter in right earnest. At the initiative of Kisanda we have also handed over two vital books documents to Adv. Dutta residing at Purba Pally of Sodepur. PRESENT STATUS REPORT OF THE URBAN PEOPLE’S ENVIRONMENT E I P WORKING REPORT 5 Environmental Improvement Programme for Calcutta A CMDA FACILITY CALCUTTA METROPOLITAN WATER AND SANITATION AUTHORITY Environmental Improvement Programme (EIP) is a specific facility of Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority. This programme is aimed at integrating environmental concern in urban planning and development activities which will lead to a sustainable urban growth. Chief Executive Officer, CMDA
FOREWORD ………………………………… ………………………………… The present report is based on an ordered assimilation of available information and will serve as the foundation for developing the strategy for urban environmental improvement and restoration of Calcutta’s environment and also for safeguarding the city from future problems of ecological imbalance. By completing this phenomenal work Dr. Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Co-ordinator, Environmental Improvement Programme and his team, have done a commendable job and deserve appreciation. I hope this humble effort will be of some assistance to the people of Calcutta, the ultimate decision makers for shaping their future environment. 15.3 WETLAND FORMATION AND DISTRIBUTION Asok Bhattacharya, Minister-in-Charge, Department of Urban Development, Government of West Bengal – 5 June 1996 The Calcutta Metropolitan Area in the lower Gangetic plain is more or less flat. The principal drainage line in the river Hugli. The river enters the Calcutta Metropolitan Area at Tribeni and leaves the region at Uluberia. At Tribeni, the river Saraswati branches off to the west and the Jamuna to the east. The entire Calcutta Metropolitan Area is traversed by innumerable offshoots of the river Hugli. The north eastern part of the area comprises meander belts of the river forming large arcuate waterbodies like the Mathura, the Kulia, the Maricha and the Baisar bils. The drainage lines in the area are highly sluggish. Among the present day channels, the Hugli, the Jamuna and the Sunti are the more important ones. Some of the palaeo-channels can be traced in the region by their highly aggraded beds. They include the Adi Ganga, the Gouri Ganga, the Kana Damodar, the Sonai Nadi and the Bidyadhari river. Land is naturally higher along both the banks of the existing palaeo-channels. Away from the levees land slopes down till it reaches another river and rises. The interdistributary marshes are numerous. The wetlands here have been formed by natural and anthropogenic causes and are scattered all over the region. There are numerous small tanks of the size of less than 5000 sq. metres on one hand and large wetlands of more than 16,000 ha. on the other. Generally depths of the wetlands are never more than 3 metres and most are much shallower. Fluvial action has been the chief cause of creation of the natural wetlands in this region. Man made water bodies found in the region are either for water supply or are borrow pits found along the highways, railways and in brick-fields. Small tanks less than 5000 sq. metres in area are mostly dug by man and they can be identified on a map by their comparatively regular boundaries. (from Page No. 164 – 165)
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