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BHUJAL NEWS

Bhu-Jal News - is a Scientific Journal of Central Ground Water Board with the objective to disseminate information to user community and highlight various issues & activities and latest technical advances in the field of Ground Water. It is published quarterly. The journal is widely circulated to central and state govt organizations, institutes, universities and user agencies etc. It includes scientific and technical paper in Ground Water domain, highlights of activities taken up by CGWB as well as other organization, technical notes, news item etc.

Special issues have been published from time to time as below:-

Ground Water Pollution, April-June,1990
Ground Water Statistics, Jan-Mar,1991
Central Ground Water Authority, Jul –Dec, 1997
Conjunctive Use Studies, Jan – Jun, 1999
Millennium Issue, Jan- June, 2000
Ground Water Geophysics Vol -I, Jan-June, 2002
Ground Water Geophysics Vol -II, Jan – Dec, 2003

The special issue series of Bhujal News is being brought out to mark the two decades of publication of Bhujal News and to highlight the challenges faced in the ground water sector in different states, as well as the options resorted to or advocated to meet such challenges. The different state issues published are:-

Rajasthan -Vol No. 20, 3-4, July- Dec,2005
Uttaranchal- Vol No.21, 1-4, Jan- Dec 2006.
West Bengal- Vol No. 24, 1, Jan- March 2009

The contents of the recently published issue of Bhujal News . i.e West Bengal special Issue(Volume No.24, Number 1, Jan-March 2009) are as follows;

Sl No	TITLE	AUTHOR
	Ground Water Issues and Development Strategies In West Bengal	Abhijit Ray & S.Shekhar
	Some Recent Advances in Understanding the Ground Water Resources of Gangetic West Bengal	Abhijit Mukherjee
	Aquifer Characteristics in South 24-Parganas and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Area, West Bengal.	A. K. Misra and S. K. Nag
	Chemical Quality & its problems in Ground Water of West Bengal	B.C.Mehta & K.K.Srivastava
	Groundwater Development in Water Scarce Jhargram Subdivision , West Medinipur District of West Bengal with Reference to Application of Artificial Recharge Techniques	D.Ghosh Dastidar and Amlanjyoti Kar
	Quality Of Groundwater In Parts of Arsa Block, Purulia District, West Bengal.	S. K. Nag
	Geoelectric Investigation for Hydrological Characterization of Southern Part of Sagar Island, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India	R. K. Majumdar, A. Ghosh and D. Das
8.	Groundwater Quality Variation in South 24-Parganas West Bengal Coast, India.	Saumitra Mukherjee & Bir Abhimanyu Kumar
9.	Sustainable Ground Water Management Options in The Delta Mouth area of Sundarban Islands, West Bengal	Anadi Gayen
10	Roof Top Rainwater Conservation In Darjeeling Town, West Bengal, An Option To Mitigate The Crisis Of Water Supply - A Case Study At Raj Bhawan Darjeeling	R.K.Guha, & Rose Anita Kujur

Recently the Editorial Board of Bhujal News has been reconstituted as follows:-

Sl No	Name & Designation	Position in Editorial Board
1.	Shri B.M.Jha, Chairman, CGWB	Chairman
2.	Dr S.C.Dhiman, Member (SML), CGWB	Member
3.	Dr S.C.Dhiman, Member (ED&MM), CGWB	Member
4.	Shri Subrata. Kunar, Member (SAM) CGWB	Member
5.	Shri Subrata. Kunar, Member(T&TT), CGWB	Member
6	Dr A.K.Sinha, Professor, Dept of Geology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur	Member
7.	Dr P.C.Chandra, Regional Director, CGWB, MER, Patna	Member
8.	Dr Saumitra Mukherjee, Professor & Head, Department of Geology & Remote Sensing, School of Environmental Sciences, J.N.U, New Delhi	Member
9.	Dr S.K.Jain, Scientist-D, CGWB, HQ, Faridabad	Editor
10.	Dr S.Shekhar, Scientist-B, CGWB, HQ, Faridabad	Assistant Editor

Please write to the Editor, Bhujal News, Central Ground Water Board, Bhujal Bhawan, NH-IV, Faridabad, or mail to tsmsam-cgwb@nic.in for inclusion in the mailing list of Bhujal news.

Invitation for scientific paper

Bhujal News has entered into 25th year of publication in 2010. To commemorate the silver jubilee year( 25th year ) of publication of Bhujal News, it is proposed to publish issues on latest research in Hydrogeology from special topics. Scientific papers are invited for 25th Year of publications of Bhujal News in 2010 from Central/State govt organizations, Institutes/ Universities/NGO and other organizations engaged in research in ground water. The papers should be submitted on following themes:-

Remote sensing & GIS in Ground Water
Mathematical modeling of ground water system

The papers should be addressed to Editor, Bhujal News, Central Ground Water Board, Bhujal Bhawan, NH-IV, Faridabad-121001(Haryana) in hard copy as well as soft copy and also e- mail to tsmsam-cgwb@nic.in or msam-cgwb@nic.in.