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What is the extent of the population affected by the arsenic contamination of groundwater in West Bengal? How is this statistics arrived at? Is the number of affected population constant or has it been rising? How much has the government and its machinery intervened in this public health problem so far? Has the mitigation measures been unbiased in tunes of socio-economic and political parameters ? The groundwater arsenic contamination crisis of West Bengal and its mitigation has raised many more such critical questions. In this chapter, adhering to the literature review and evidence-based assessment of secondary as well as primary information, we try to find answers to these all important questions.
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Das, A., Roy, J., Chakrabarti, S. (2016). The Opening of the Pandora’s Box. In: Socio-Economic Analysis of Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in West Bengal. India Studies in Business and Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0682-1_10
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