Dr. Dipankar Saha

Central Ground Water Board

Ministry of Water Resources Government of India, India

Email: dsaha002@yahoo.com

Qualifications

2005  Ph.D., Ground water management, ISM University, Dhanbad, India

1982  M.Sc., Geology,Calcutta University, Calcutta, India

1978  B.Sc., Geology (Hons), Presidency College, Calcutta, India

Publications (Selected)

1. Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Mid-Ganga Basin in the State of Bihar, India - Dipankar Saha and D.S. Mishra, 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS, ARSENIC IN THE ENVIRONMENT: FROM NATURE TO HUMANS, Valencia, Spain on 21-23 May, 2008.
2. Occurrence and origin of nitrate in Gangetic Alluvial Plain – A case syudy from South Ganga Plain, Bihar. NATIONAL SEMINAR OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND RURAL DRINKING WATER – GROUND WATER – 2007, Central Ground Water Board, Bhopal 4-5th April 2007.
3. Ground water resource availability and artificial recharge issues in jharkhand state. NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE AND WATER HARVESTING. Water resources Dept, Govt of Jharkhand, 4th June, 2007.
4. Geochemistry of ground water of the Pleistocene aquifers of Mid Ganga Basin. A case study from South Ganga Plain, Bihar. JOURNAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA, 2007, Vol 71, pp.473-482, Dipankar Saha, Y.R.Dhar, P.K.Sikdar.
5. The aquifer system and evaluation of its hydraulic parameters in parts of South Ganga Plain, Bihar, India. JOURNAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA, 2007, Vol 69, pp.1031-1041, Dipankar Saha, S.Upadhyay, Y.R. Dhar, R.Singh.
6. Delineating ground water potential zones in the marginal alluvial areas of Gangetic Plain-a case study from Nalanda district, Bihar. INDIAN MINERALS, 2006 Vol 60, pp. 181-192, Dipankar Saha, Y.R.Dhar, S.Das.
7. Determination of specific yield using water balance approach- a case study of Torla Odha water shed in Decan Trap Province, Maharastra State, India. HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL, 2006, Vol. 14, pp. 625-635, Dipankar Saha, A.K.Agrawal.
8. Geogenic contamination of ground water in Bihar state. EXECUTIVE MEETING ON APPLICATION OF ISOTOPE TECHNIQUE IN GEOGENIC CONTAMINATION, International Atomic Energy Agency, Held at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 23th- 26th May, 2006.
9. Hydraulic parameters of aquifers and aquitards of Pleistocene deposits of Ganga Plain. NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FRONTIER AREA IN GEOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF FOSSIL FUEL AND MINERAL RESOURCES ISM, Dhanbad, 2-4th November 2006.
10. Development of efficient design parameters of deep tube well in Gangetic alluvial plain INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR OF HYDROLOGY AND WATER SHED MANAGEMENT, JNTU, Hyderabad, 5-8th December 2006.
11. Need for artificial recharge WORLD WATER DAY, WALMI, Patna 22nd March 2005.
12. Arsenic contamination of ground water in India.  INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON OPERATIONAL RESPONSE TO ARSENIC CONTAMINATION TO GROUND WATER. Water and Sanitation Programme, World Bank, Held at Kathmandu 26th – 27th July 2004.
13. Scope of artificial recharge in Jharkhand state NATIONAL SEMINAR ON ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE AND WATER HARVESTING, Water resources Dept, Govt of Jharkhand, 28 August, 2004.
14. Distribution of iodine in soil-water system in the Gandak basin, Bihar. JOURNAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA, 2004, Vol 62, pp 91-98, N.C.Ghosh, Kabita Das, Dipankar Saha.
15. Ground water pollution in Chas-Bokaro industrial area, Bokaro district Jharkhand INDIAN MINERALS, 2002, Vol 56 No. 3 or 4, Dipankar Saha, R.P.Agrawal, M.K.Chaudhary.
16. Safe distance for heavy deep tube wells tapping Upper Tertiary sandstone of Tripura State, INDIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE, 2002 Vol. 29 No. 1-4, V.Sharma and Dipankar Saha.

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