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

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The final site of PW268 was changed to Rajapur village of Bagjola panchayet of Baduria block. The land is donated by Rafique Mondol. Arsenic was found to be high and sand layer was also available during the pilot test. The construction is completed by the first week of June.
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This site #PW268. is in the Kittipur village under the jurisdiction of the Bagjola panchayat in the Baduria district of North 24 Parganas.. The arsenic concentration of the private tubewell of Asiful Rehman was found to be 0.02 to 0.04 mg/L that was tested on 11 January 2013 with the VisuPAsS Visual Portable Arsenic testing field kit. The construction is supposed to start in mid February 2013.