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Mitigation and Remedy of Groundwater Arsenic Menace in India

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<strong>Mitigation</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Remedy</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Groundwater</strong> <strong>Arsenic</strong> <strong>Menace</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> : A Vision DocumentC. Mass Awareness <strong>and</strong> Social Empowerment programmesThe mass awareness <strong>and</strong> social empowerment programmes can be implemented <strong>in</strong> atwo tier process under the overall coord<strong>in</strong>ation <strong>of</strong> selective Central agencies <strong>and</strong> the State PublicHealth Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g Departments. In the first tier, tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> personnel from the Stateimplement<strong>in</strong>g departments, Panchayati Raj Institutions, <strong>and</strong> selected NGOs can be tra<strong>in</strong>ed byexpert group(s) devis<strong>in</strong>g suitable mechanisms; <strong>in</strong> the second tier, the tra<strong>in</strong>ed personnel willdissem<strong>in</strong>ate the campaign <strong>and</strong> awareness programme to the rural masses. The programme canbe operationalized by suitable outsourc<strong>in</strong>g mechanisms.Some <strong>of</strong> the resourceful <strong>in</strong>stitutions/NGOs who could be <strong>in</strong>volved for mass awarenessprogrammes are:(i) Panchayati Raj Institutions - a Government Institution.(ii) Centre for Environmental Studies, New Delhi - NGO.(iii) Ram Krishna Mission Seva Sangh- NGO(iv) Centre for Ground Water Studies, Kolkata - NGO.(v) Paschim Bangya Bigyan Mancha -NGO(vi) Loksiksha Parisad, Ramkrishna Mission -NGONIH & CGWB 155

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