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Zoning
Atlas - Bankura District (west Bengal)
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Foreword
The Central Pollution
Control Board introduced an environmental planning programme known
as "Zoning Atlas for siting of Industries" in 1995 for identifying
and protecting the environmentally sensitive zones and helping in
achieving developmental objectives, especially those of industries,
in an environmentally acceptable manner. Capacities are being built
on various technical aspects related to planning and mapping, on interpretation
of data/maps/information for decision making purposes, on GIS, remote
sensing applications, modelling, etc. as well as on xhe application/usage
of the results generated under the programme. The programme is a part
of the World Bank funded Environmental Management Capacity Building
Project and the GTZ (German Agency for Technical Co-operation) supported
"CPCB/SPCBs Environmental Quality Assessment & Control"
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the State of West Bengal, Bankura District was taken up by the West
Bengal State Council of Science & Technology, Calcutta as a part of
the pilot phase in 1995 with the technical support form CPCB and GTZ.
Although, the Atlas for this District was made available for official
use much earlier, owing to certain technical problems, this could
not be published for public use. Through constant R&D efforts and
with the support of GTZ, CPCB has now worked out GIS solutions for
speeding up printing of the Atlases. The present Atlas is one of the
first outputs of these efforts.
We hope, this Atlas will help the industrial entrepreneurs and the
Government agencies in proper siting of industrial units. |
Dilip Biswas
Chairman, CPCB |
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