Rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta by Kalyan Rudra

Rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta by Kalyan Rudra

This book addresses the topic from a highly interdisciplinary perspective covering areas of geography, geology, environment, history, archaeology, sociology and politics of the Bengal region. The book appeals to a wide range of audiences from India, Bangladesh and the international community.

Dr. Kalyan Rudra is presently Chairman of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board and also member of the Central Pollution Control Board. He is a Geographer by academic training specialized in river and water management. He took a break from his protracted teaching carrier in 2007 and joined a research project of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board. He worked as the Project Director in two projects of WBPCB - one on water resource and its quality and the other on dynamic river system of West Bengal. He has been the expert-member in the committee constituted by the apex court of the State for cleaning the Ganga since 2005. Dr. Rudra was a member of the National Flood Management Core Group and headed the committee constituted to advise the Government of West Bengal on the issue of Indo-Bangladesh sharing of Teesta water. He had been a member of the consortium of IITs which submitted the Ganga River Basin Management Plan to the Government of India in 2015.

He is a regular Guest Faculty in the National Academy of Audit and Accounts, Academic Staff Colleges of Calcutta and Burdwan University. He has written/edited five books and many research papers which have been published in reputed journals of India and abroad. Dr. Rudra also worked with the International Union for Conservation of Nature to prepare the Indo-Bangladesh Transboundary River Atlas. He has worked on the history of mapping Bengal and edited “A Bengal Atlas” by James Rennell (1780).

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ISBN 13	9783319765433
ISBN 10	3319765434
Title	Rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta
Author	Kalyan Rudra
Series	Geography Of The Physical Environment
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Year published	2018-04-13
Number of pages	190
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