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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This new site #PW275 is in Chougacha village under the jurisdiction of the Deuli panchayat of Chakdah block in the district of Nadia. Pilot test was not done here because sand layer is found at 5-6 feet assessed from the construction of unmetalled road currently going on in this area. The land is finally donated by Thakurdas Majumdar changed from the land previously chosen that belonged to Prohlad Biswas. Arsenic was found to be unsafe in the tubewell.
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This site #PW275 is in the Berbari village under the jurisdiction of the Deuli panchayat of Chakda block in the district of North 24 Parganas.. The arsenic concentration of the private tubewell of Atindro Mollick was found to be 0.05-0.08 mg/L that was tested on 3 December 2012 with the VisuPAsS Visual Portable Arsenic testing field kit. The construction is supposed to start in mid February 2013.