TiPOT Project, Kasimpore

The TiPOT Project at Kasimpore was the pre-cursor of the World Bank Project DM 06-880. The consortium of some European Universities & Indian Research Institutes led by Dr Bhaskar Sen Gupta experimented with the In-situ Arsenic Removal Technology at Kasimpore under the funding of EU. After obtaining desired result, they decided to take their work to the next level by participating in the DM Competition of World Bank.

The TiPOT (Technology for in-situ treatment of groundwater for potable and irrigation purposes) project at Kasimpore on "Subterranean Arsenic Removal" was funded in the Asia Pro Eco Programme of the EU (Contract Reference No.: ASI/B7-301/2598/24-2004/79013).

Partners:

Dr Bhaskar Sen Gupta, Queens University Belfast (QUB)

National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, India (NML)

Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management, Stuttgart, Germany (ISWA)

Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain (UMH)

Institute of Environmental Management and Studies, India (IEMS)

Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, the Netherlands (CML)

Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission- Institute of Advanced Studies (RKVM-IAS)

After the successful outcome in the TiPOT project, RKVM-IAS competed for the "Development Marketplace Global Competition, 2006" hosted by the World Bank in the "Water & Sanitation for the Poor People" Category & emerged as one of the Winners in this prestigious competition.

visit TiPOT website: www.qub.ac.uk/sites/TiPOT/