Sustainability, Water Use and Economic Incentives A Case for Greater Kolkata

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Dr. Manoil Ghosh is a full-time permanent lecturer in the Department of Economics in Prabhu Jagat- bandhu College, Andul, Howrah since 1984 and is presently an Associate Professor in the same Department in this college since 2006. He is also a guest faculty of One Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in Human Rights in the West Bengal National University of Juridical Science, Kolkata since 2014. He has obtained his Ph.D degree from Jadavpur University in 2007 where he has extensively worked on "Sustainability, Water use and Economic Incentives: A case for Greater Kolkata." Apart from this he has also obtained the M.Phil degree from the University of Calcutta, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from IMM, Kolkata and Post Graduate Diploma on Human Rights from West Bengal National University of Juridical Science, Kolkata in which he has obtained the 1st Rank. Further, as a resource person he has delivered lectures on various economic, environmental and human rights Issues, in different colleges and other academic institutions as well. Dr Ghosh, during his long span of teaching experience, has devoted a substantial amount of his time on research projects funded by the University Grants Commission, on topics like "Plan of Action for Removal of Poverty in some parts of Kolkata and "Management of Wetlands in Eastern Kolkata and other areas."

Recently, he has been delivering lectures on various Geoeconomic issues in the regular two years Post Graduate Course in the Department of Geography in his college.

I believe acknowledgement of debt or gratitude falls short of our thoughts of thankfulness for the simple reason that the gap between the inner mind and the outer manifestation of our feelings and emotions can never be bridged through language. Hence acknowledgement of gratitude always implies much more than what is expressed. Nevertheless, first of all I would like to acknowledge my deep gratitude to my Ph.D. supervisor Professor Joyashree Roy, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, under whose guidance I have been able to complete my work. My appreciation of her intellectual and moral support knows no bounds. By her valuable suggestions she has virtually steered me through this voluminous task and I feel privileged to work under a scholar of her erudition and vision in the field of Environmental Economics. Words truly fall short for my gratefulness to her for the power she instilled in me to feel positive when confidence ebbed.

I would like to acknowledge my debt to the staffs of KMC, KMDA, KMWSA, BMC, NSSO without whose cooperation my work would have remained incomplete. Their selfless support helped me in an in-depth research work.

I want to extend my gratitude to the staffs of the libraries which I visited during my research like the National Library, Kolkata, Library of the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University and University of Calcutta, the ISI Library, Kolkata for their kind cooperation.