Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified dugwells along with public education on water related health effects.

Narrative

This new site for borewell #PW205 is in Jangolpur village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas district. This land is donated by Mintu Mondol to the community to construct the bore-dugwell.
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31st December: Boring and digging is complete. Housing is ongoing. Photo is pending.

After cancellation of sites and with the onset of the monsoon work was postponed. Expected to be completed by end of December.

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CANCELLED SITE AFTER PILOT TEST.

This site #PW206 is in the Bajetpur village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas district. This land is donated by Pradip Ray to the community to construct the bore-dugwell.

This year there is a delay in the construction due to the following reasons:
1. during april and may no village meetings could be held because of assembly election in the state election;
2. many sites were selected and village meetings were held several months before the construction. Many sites were cancelled because of pipelines that the local panchayet came to know about later. In fact sites in two blocks, Haringhata and Bashirhat have been replaced by sites in Baduria and Swarupnagar.
3. During pilot tests due to non availability of water bearing sand layer and family or neigborly disputes by now 22 sites been cancelled.
4. At every new site village meetings are being held that leads to delay too.