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DETAILED PROJECT REPORT ON CAPACITY BUILDING OF INSTITUTE OF

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES & WETLAND MANAGEMENT (IESWM)

Introduction

The project on capacity building of Institute of Environmental Studies and

Wetland Management (IESWM) is mainly focused towards

procurement and installation of some advanced field monitoring instruments

to monitor coastal processes in the Coastal areas of West Bengal especially

of Sundarban area,

procurement and installation of remote sensing related hardware and

software at IESWM office at Kolkata, to supplement physical monitoring of

coastal processes, including registering of micro level change in form

elements of the coastal landscape and

undertaking one research program (deploying the instruments, software and

hardware) on modeling of coastal form-process responses in Sundarban due

to climate change

support in construction and operation of an Interpretation Centre on the

Sundarbans by Tagore Society for Rural Development

Part I Feasibility Report

A. Physical features

1. The physical features of Sundarban forming the central focus of the study

area are well known. Sundarban is one of largest mangrove swamps of the world, a

substantial part of which lies within the state of West Bengal. It is essentially made

up of a mosaic of low lying ‘islands’ separated by tidal estuaries and creeks and

the islands in the upland (northern) part are progressively ‘welded’ to form a

composite land mass. The estuaries are typically north south trending funnel

shaped channels opening into the Bay of Bengal. The tide is semi-diurnal and has

a high range.

B. Economic Features

2. This point may not be relevant in the present context.

C. Existing Services Status

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3. A modest but pioneering beginning has been made in IESWM towards

monitoring of coastal processes in the estuaries of Sundarban. The existing main

instrumental facilities that are available in IESWM for such monitoring purposes

are as follows:

Automatic Tide Gauge in string – 2,

Automatic Tide Gauge in string Digital – 2,

Unidirectional Current Meter - 2

Single Frequency Echo sounder - 1

4. IESWM has over the years built up a strong hardware and software base for

coastal research using remote sensing techniques.

Survey instruments

Dumpy level – 1, Prismatic compass – 1 and Single frequency DGPS (GS 20, Leica make) –

1, Dual Frequency DGPS (GS 1200+, Leica make) - 1

Computer & RS hardware:

Workstation – 6, High performance desktop – 4, Pentium IV – 5, Laptop – 2, A4 scanner-

copier-printer – 1, A0 colour scanner – 1, A0 colour plotter - 1, Digital planimeter – 2,

Procom II enlarger – 1, Light tracing table – 2 and Tough book Laptop - 1.

Software

ARC GIS ver 9.3 – one license:

ARC View Work station version – 2 license:

ARC view 3.2 ver – 1 license

AUTOCAD Map 2009 – 3 licenses

LISCAD – one license

ERDAS Imagine ver 9.2 – 10 licenses

PCI Geometica – 2 licenses

Geomedia – 1 license,

Leica Geo-office – 1 license,

GIS Data Pro – One license,

Hypack 2009 software – 1 license

Procom – II instrument and normal light tracing tables are used to analyse the data

of RS products visually. For digital image processing, software like ERDAS

Imagine and Geomatica are the key support systems. For GIS works, ARC GIS,

ARC View softwares are used.

5. Additional provision of the instruments as envisaged in the present project

and support for the associated research will substantially augment the existing

service status of IESWM.

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D. Planning aspects

6. Planned procurement of the instruments as envisaged in the present project

will essentially support one research program as part of capacity building of the

Institute. The program will involve coastal process monitoring in the field (five

estuaries of Sundarban) by deploying the following instruments:

A. Design and construction of five permanent tide gauge stations with solar power supply

system on five estuaries, viz., Saptamukhi, Matla, Bidya, Raimangal and Thakuran.

B. Selection, procurement, installation (at five permanent tide gauge stations) and calibration of

5 nos Tide gauge (strain gauge type) with display option

1 nos Automatic weather station with sensors for wind speed & direction, precipitation,

humidity, temperature and atmospheric pressure

5 nos DGPS with V-sat system for data transmission

1 no post processing software (gammit/bernes)

3 no Directional Tide gauge & wave recorder with optional turbidity sensor for mobile

campaign

3 no Wave & Tide recorder with all sensors

2 nos of Recording Current Meters with light mooring frame/ bottom mounted frame,

battery etc with sensors like conductivity, Pressure, Temperature, Oxygen, Turbidity and

wave tide sensor.

2 nos Recording Doppler Current Profilers upto a depth range of 300 meters

1 no Eco-sounder

1 no. of software for Bathymetry Data collection

1 no Bottom sediment sampler

1 no Suspended sediment sampler

7. Five suitable permanent monitoring rooms within the estuary will be

constructed to house the instruments for their round the year operation.

8. Augmentation of RS & GIS facilities in IESWM will include procurement

of the following:

Computer systems with networking facilities

Software for Marine & Estuarine system

Image analysis software

Digitisation software

GIS software

Data Base Management software

Input/output devices like large format scanner cum plotter

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Ground truthing systems (DGPS, radiometer, equipment for sediment

measurements, chlorophyll , mangrove conditions, etc)

9. Apart from general strengthening of the facilities in the RS & GIS

laboratory, such augmentation will support building up of a model of coastal

response in both form and process elements in the Sundarban in the face of an on-

going climate change on a regional basis.

E. Broad Economic Analysis and Financial Impacts

10. The project cost has been estimated at Rupees 8.24 crores out of which

capital cost will be about Rupees 5.60 crores towards purchase of equipments and

recurring cost will be about Rupees 2.64 crores. The net financial impact will be

addition of cutting-edge instruments in IESWM and carrying out advanced

research in monitoring of coastal processes having applications in coastal

management research. Such impact will also be in the form of peer-reviewed

scientific publications in internationally reputed scientific journals.

F. Social Screening, R & R and need for land acquisition

11. The field monitoring equipments to be procured under this program will be

deployed at sites within coastal part of West Bengal especially in Sundarbans

under the supervision of scientific staff members of IESWM. The laboratory

equipments will be installed in the already existing laboratory facilities of

IESWM. It will not involve any acquisition of private land and will not affect the

community adversely. Hence social screening and drawing up of R & R plan are

not required in the present context.

G. Environmental Screening outcome, likely environmental impacts, need for detailed Environmental Assessments

12. The implementation of the project will not have any bearing on ecology and

environment of the locality. The field equipment will be installed within selected

estuaries of the Sundarban occupying only a space of 10 sq.m. For installation of

the laboratory equipments, minor modifications of the laboratory space will

involve only minor indoor renovation works. The running of the instruments will

not involve hazardous activities and storage or use of harmful substances, neither

will there be any harmful emission/generation of air/water/solid waste. There is no

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need for a detailed environmental assessment for this work programme under

ICZM Programme.

H. Overview of institutional issues and capacity building required

a) Management

13. Overall implementation and management of the program will rest with Sri

Somenath Bhattacharyya, Senior Scientist of IESWM who will be responsible for

procurement of instruments, deployment of field monitoring equipments at

suitable places, procurement and installation of remote sensing related hardware

and software and implementation of associated research programs. He will co-

ordinate the various activities related to implementation of the project and will be

specifically responsible for timely submission of reports and publication of quality

scientific papers in international journals.

14. Detailed specifications and other terms and conditions of the procurement

related to tendering of the instruments will be reviewed before actual tendering.

b) Maintenance

15. The procured instruments will all be under Annual Maintenance Contract

(AMC) including services and supply of spares with manufacturers or their

authorized service agents in India.

c) Capacity building

16. The project itself is on capacity building. However, apart from

augmentation of the instrumental facilities in IESWM, research staff members

participating in the project will get an opportunity to get trained in handling new

advanced equipments and build up research capabilities using these equipments.

The tagged research program will open up new vista of advanced research in an

emerging field.

Part II-Detailed Project Report

A. Designs

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INTRODUCTION

1. Capacity building in major centres of coastal research and study in West

Bengal is an important component of the development of facilities for integrated

coastal zone management in the state. One of the centres that have been identified

for this purpose is Institute of Environmental Studies & Wetland Management

(IESWM), Government of West Bengal.

2. The objectives of capacity building for ICZM in IESWM are to provide new

and cutting edge equipment, computer hardware and software that could be

successfully used on-site and off-site as part of some identified investigations of

importance. The objective is also to address some current fundamental scientific

issues related to ICZM deploying these equipments so as to verify their efficacy in

addressing emerging coastal research issues. Such capacity building will also pave

the way for taking up in future other major issues of ICZM. In short the program

includes the following:

procurement and installation of some advanced field monitoring instruments

to monitor coastal processes in the Sundarban area of West Bengal,

procurement and installation of remote sensing related hardware and

software at IESWM office at Kolkata, to supplement physical monitoring of

coastal processes, including registering of micro level change in form

elements of the coastal landscape and

undertaking one research program (deploying the instruments, software and

hardware) on modeling of coastal form-process responses in Sundarban due

to climate change

procurement of a mobile chemical laboratory for on site chemical analysis

of water and sediment

construction and operation of an Interpretation Centre on the Sundarbans by

Tagore Society for Rural Development

COASTAL STUDIES DIVISION (CSD) OF IESWM

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Activities

3. IESWM [formerly known as Institute of Wetland Management &

Ecological Design (IWMED)] under the Department of Environment, Government

of West Bengal has been working in the coastal areas of West Bengal using mainly

remote sensing (RS) & geographical information system (GIS) technology for the

last 20 years. One of the major thrust areas where RS and GIS technology has been

immensely useful was in the field of coastal zone management which is

exclusively the domain of activity of one of the divisions [Coastal Studies Division

(CSD)] of IESWM. The activities of CSD are presently being carried out in

collaboration with Space Applications Centre (SAC), National Remote Sensing

Agency (NRSA), Ministry of Environment & Forests (MOEF) and Ministry of

Earth Sciences, Government of India (GOI). Major activities of CSD of IESWM in

the field of coastal zone studies & management are preparation of natural

resources inventory and formulation of management plans pertaining to coastal

wetlands, mangroves, coral reefs, etc, monitoring of basic physical processes

operative in the estuarine and near shore areas, implications of climate change and

related phenomena in the coastal regime of West Bengal. Progressively greater

emphasis is being given towards acquiring of instrumental and computational

facilities for building up of form-process-material interaction models currently

operative and also expected under different climatic scenarios in different

segments of West Bengal coast.

4. The above core activities and research of CSD was initiated by a small

group of earth scientists, especially geologists but later on, scientists from other

related disciplines like botany, environmental science, atmospheric science, RS

and GIS were inducted for developing a multi-disciplinary approach to research

problems at hand.

5. Till recently majority of research works involved use of both visual and

digital image processing techniques for mapping and inventorying purposes

supplemented by detailed ground truth verification for form identification and

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mapping. Subsequently techniques relating to Geographical Information System

(GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), Differential Global Positioning System

(DGPS) etc were introduced for a multi-disciplinary approach. Very recently,

dynamic process and material monitoring in estuarine and near shore areas

including time lapse recording of bathymetry, tidal ranges, wave period, tide and

wave velocity, sediment size etc have been introduced.

6. Noting the work carried out by this division of IESWM in the coastal zone,

Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India has recognised IESWM

as an authorised institute for demarcation of High Tide Line (HTL), Low Tide

Line (LTL) and Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) along the Indian coast in 1998.

Projects of CSD

7. A number of projects have already been completed by CSD of IESWM with

the application of Remote Sensing & GIS and other related technologies. Some of

the important ones are mentioned below:

Wetland mapping of West Bengal

Wetland mapping of Tripura

Status of surface water resources of Howrah, Burdwan and Nadia districts of

West Bengal

Mapping and monitoring of coastal wetlands of West Bengal using ERS-1 SAR

Data

Wasteland mapping of Koch Behar district of West Bengal

Land use mapping of coastal regulation zone of West Bengal

Coastal studies project

Upgradation of coastal zone maps of West Bengal

Wetland Information System

Coastal Zone Management for selected areas of West Bengal

8. The list of important on-going projects is as follows:

Preparation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan for identified coastal

stretches of West Bengal

Coastal zone studies for West Bengal and Andaman Islands

Ecosystem modeling of parts of Sundarban

Development of location specific oil spill trajectory models (OSTM) along Hugli

estuary under ‘COMAPS’ programme

9. Through different activities carried out during last 15 years or so, CSD of

IESWM has collected and is collecting data on coastal processes of West Bengal.

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Some of the important works, which have already been carried out along coast are

mentioned below:

Erosion / Deposition along major estuaries

Changes in land use and land cover

Changes in floral composition of mangroves

Changes in land cover due to change in management practices

Changes in saline incrustation pattern

Sea level rise and shoreline changes

A modest beginning has also been made in the study of carbon sequestration and

in regional model generation on sea level rise.

Proposed programme

10. Compared to the responsibilities bestowed upon CSD for tackling coastal

zone management issues including progressive need of coastal process monitoring

with available infrastructure and equipment facilities, a crippling lack of adequate

advanced monitoring equipments, their continuous field deployment and

appropriate processing of continuous data sets are proving to be a major hindrance.

In order to provide adequate support in the activities in the above areas it is

proposed to equip the existing RS and GIS laboratory and the Estuarine & near

shore survey & research (ENSSR) unit of CSD of IESWM with state-of-the–art

facilities thereby augmenting the Division’s capabilities and upgrading the

facilities to a national standard. The upgradation has been linked to a proposed

topical research programme involving inter alia continuous data acquisition on

estuarine and near shore form, process and response dynamics in Sundarban area

of West Bengal.

11. Over the last 150-200 years climate change has been taking place rapidly

and certain plant and animal species have found it hard to adapt. Human activities

are said to be responsible for the speed at which this change has occurred and it is

now a cause of concern. Although, there are controversies and doubts regarding

the scale of climate change and consequent sea level rise, after the publication of

Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC, it has been accepted world wide that global

climatic change is a reality and the mankind should start preparing to adapt and

perhaps mitigate the same.

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12. Global climate and sea level changes will have severe impact on the highly

populated coastal zones all over the world. Currently the changes are not only

threatening the very existence of coastal installations, constructions and

investments but also creating serious impediments for demarcation of boundaries

of coastal zones based on high tide line. In order to formulate any worthwhile

coastal zone management plan of West Bengal especially of the Sundarban region,

it is therefore imperative to work out the changing morphology of the major

estuaries of Sundarban, to identify and monitor the dynamic rate of coastal erosion

/ accretion and to record land use changes in the Sundarban using principally RS

and GIS techniques.

13. The other important area of research, that will have a direct bearing on

response of climate change in the Sundarban, is continuous field measurements of

estuarine/coastal process and response parameters. This will include such process

parameters like tides, waves, weather and their responses like possible sea level

rise through time, estuarine bathymetry, suspended sediment concentration,

bottom sediment characteristics, etc. The measured data sets of these variables

over a sufficient long period of time would then provide the necessary input

towards understanding of the impact of perceived climate change on estuarine

dynamics of the Sundarban and towards reliable application of climate change

model for realistic prediction of sea level rise, change in estuarine process

dynamics and related adjustment of estuarine form elements with their material

make up like suspended sediment concentration, bed load transport rate and

bottom sediment characteristics.

Work Elements of proposed programme

14. The proposed research programme on Estuarine dynamics of Sundarban

and their response to possible climate change will be implemented through

integrated efforts of the RS & GIS laboratory and Estuarine & near shore survey &

research (ENSSR) unit of CSD. The major work elements are as follows:

RS & GIS laboratory

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1. Procurement of digital data products (of Sundarban region of West Bengal), appropriate

hardware and software for extraction of relevant information relating to

morphological changes and channel geometry of major estuaries of Sundarban since the

earliest days of remote sensing

shoreline changes across the Sundarban since the earliest days of remote sensing

2. Procurement of one license of appropriate software of hydraulic modeling (MIKE 21)

from DHI

Estuarine & near shore survey & research (ENSSR) unit

3. Design and construction of five permanent tide gauge stations with solar power supply

system on five estuaries, viz., Saptamukhi, Matla, Bidya, Raimangal and Thakuran.

4. Selection, procurement, installation (at five permanent tide gauge stations) and

calibration of

5 nos Tide gauge (strain gauge type) with display option

1nos Automatic weather station with sensors for wind speed & direction, precipitation,

humidity, temperature and atmospheric pressure

5 nos DGPS with V-sat system for data transmission

1 no post processing software (gammit/bernes)

3 no Directional Tide gauge & wave recorder with optional turbidity sensor for mobile

campaign

3 no. of Wave and Tide Recorder with the optional sensors

2 nos of Recording Current Meters with light mooring frame/ bottom mounted frame,

battery etc with sensors like conductivity, Pressure, Temperature, Oxygen, Turbidity and

wave tide sensor.

2 nos Recording Doppler Current Profilers upto a depth range of 300 meters

1 no Eco-sounder

1 no. of Bathymetry data recording software

1 no Bottom sediment sampler

Available Facilities of IESWM

15. Available facilities of CSD of IEWWM include the following:

RS & GIS Laboratory

Computer & RS hardware:

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Workstation – 6, High performance desktop – 4, Pentium IV – 5, Laptop – 2, A4 scanner-

copier-printer – 1, A0 colour scanner – 1, A0 colour plotter - 1, Digital planimeter – 2,

Procom II enlarger – 1, Light tracing table – 2 and Tough book Laptop - 1.

Estuarine and near shore survey & research unit

Physical Oceanographic Hardware:

Automatic Tide Gauge in string (Valeport, UK make) – 2, Automatic Tide Gauge in string

Digital (Valeport, UK make) – 2, Unidirectional Current Meter (Valeport, UK make) – two,

Single Frequency Echo sounder (SyQuest, USA make) - one

Survey instruments:

Dumpy level – 1, Prismatic compass – 1 and Single frequency DGPS (GS 20, Leica make) – 1,

Dual Frequency DGPS (GS 1200+, Leica make)

Software

ARC GIS ver 9.2 – one license:

ARC View Work station version – 2 licence:

ARC view 3.2 ver – 1 license

AUTOCAD Map 2009 – 3 licenses

LISCAD – one license

ERDAS Imagine ver 9.2 – 10 licenses

PCI Geometica – 2 licenses

Geomedia – 1 license,

Leica Geo-office – 1 license,

GIS Data Pro – One license,

Hypack 2009 software – 1 license

Procom – II instrument and normal light tracing tables are used to analyse the data of RS

products visually. For digital image processing, software like ERDAS Imagine and Geomatica

are the key support systems. For GIS works, ARC GIS, ARC View, Geomedia, AutoCad map

software etc are used.

Required Facilities

16. In order to attain greater sophistication in RS & GIS Laboratory, to provide

input in integrated coastal zone management issues and to address emerging issues

relating to research on climate change, high level computing system and specific

climate research software are required as follows.

Computer systems with networking facilities

Software for Marine & Estuarine system

Image analysis software

Digitisation software

GIS software

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Data Base Management software

Input / output devices like large format scanner cum plotter

Ground truthing systems (DGPS, radiometer, equipment for sediment

measurements, chlorophyll , coral reef conditions, etc)

B. Estimates

17. The cost of implementation of the project including the cost of procurement

of the required instruments is as follows:

BUDGET

In Indian Rupees

I. Manpower

Category No & Rate

per month

per person

First year Second

year

Third

year

Fourth

year

Fifth year Total

Consulting Scientist One

@ 40000/-

4,80,000 4,80,000 4,80,000 4,80,000 4,80,000 24,00,000.00

Research Associate Two

@ 25000/-

6,00,000 6,00,000 6,00,000 6,00,000 6,00,000 30,00,000.00

Research Fellow Four

@ 15000/-

7,20,000 7,20,000 7,20,000 7,20,000 7,20,000 36,00,000.00

General Duty Attendant Two

@ 7000/-

1,68,000 1,68,000 1,68,000 1,68,000 1,68,000 8,40,000.00

Guard Eight

@ 6000/-

5,76,000 5,76,000 5,76,000 5,76,000 5,76,000 28,80,000.00

Total - 1,27,20,000.00

II. Equipment

A. RS & GIS Laboratory

Name of

equipment/Hardware

/software

Number of

unit

First year Second

year

Third

year

Fourth

year

Fifth

year

Total

High End Workstation for

Image Analysis & Modeling

5 @

3,00,000.00 15,00,000 15,00,000.00

A-3 size Printer cum scanner

cum copier 1 3,50,000 3,50,000.00

A-0 size Designjet Printer

cum scanner cum copier 11,00,000 11,00,000.00

Ground Truth equipment

Real time DGPS 1 38,50,000 38,50,000.00

Reflector Less Total Station 1 10,00,000 10,00,000.00

One Server for Networking

System with storage device 1 3,00,000 3,00,000.00

UPS System 1 1,00,000 1,00,000.00

Image Analysis software

Erdas Imagine 9.3 version

5 Floating

License

5,50,000 5,50,000 5,50,000.00

Image Analysis software

Geomatica Version 10.1

Floating License on

Windows Platform

One

Floating

Licence

7,00,000 7,00,000.00

ARC GIS Software 2 50,00,000 50,00,000.00

Mike 21 with all modules

required for modeling of

waves, sediment,

2 25,00,000 25,00,000 50,00,000.00

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environmental parameters

1,94,50,000.00

Tide gauge (strain

gauge type) with

display option

Five @

3,00,000/-

15,00,000/

-

15,00,000.00

Automatic weather

station with sensors for

wind speed & direction,

precipitation, humidity,

temperature and

atmospheric pressure

One

@15,00,0

00/-

15,00,000/

-

15,00,000.00

DGPS with V-sat

system for data

transmission

Four

@25,00,0

00

1,00,00,00

0/-

1,00,00,000.00

Post processing

software (gammit/

bernes)

One @

14,00,000

/-

14,00,000.

00/-

14,00,000.00

Directional wave

recorder with optional

turbidity sensor

Three @

10,00,000

/-

30,00,000/

-

30,00,000.00

Wave and Tide

Recorder with sensors

Two @

7,00,000/-

14,00,000/

-

14,00,000.00

Eco-sounder One @

5,00,000/-

5,00,000/- 5,00,000.00

Bathymetry processing

software

One @

5,00,000/-

5,00,000/- 5,00,000.00

Bottom sediment

sampler

One @

2,50,000/-

2,50,000/- 2,50,000.00

Solar Panels for tide

gauge stations

Five@

1,00,000/-

5,00,000/- 5,00,000.00

SUB TOTAL 2,05,50,000.00

III. Travel

Car hiring charges for

field operations

50,000/- 1,00,000/- 1,00,000/- 1,00,000/- 50,000/- 4,00,000.00

TA/DA of persons

visiting fields

50,000/- 1,00,000/- 1,00,000/- 1,00,000/- 50,000/- 4,00,000.00

Air fare for meetings 1,00,000/

-

1,00,000/- 1,00,000/- 1,00,000/- 1,00,000/

-

5,00,000.00

Boat/ Launch hiring

charges

1,00,000/

-

3,00,000/- 3,00,000/- 3,00,000/- 1,00,000/

-

11,00,000.00

IV. Other Costs

Stationeries and

Computer supplies

1,00,000/

-

2,00,000/- 2,00,000/- 2,00,000/- 1,00,000/

-

8,00,000.00

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AMC of instruments &

software

0.0 2,00,000/- 5,00,000/- 5,00,000/- 5,00,000/

-

17,00,000.00

Expenses for

organizations of

meetings/workshop

30,000/- 1,00,000/- 2,00,000/- 2,00,000/- 2,00,000/

-

7,30,000.00

Contingency including

field operation

expenses, hiring of

temporary persons etc

2,00,000/

-

5,00,000/- 5,00,000/- 5,00,000/- 2,00,000/

-

19,00,000.00

Construction of

Permanent Tide Gauge

Station within estuary

Four @

40,00,000

/-

40,00,000/

-

80,00,000/

-

40,00,000/

-

1,60,00,000.00

Tagore Society for

Rural Development

Constructi

on of

dormitory

for

Interpretat

ion Centre

20,00,0

00/-

20,00,000/

-

21,25,000/

-

61,25,000.00

G R A N D T O T A L 8,24,00,000.

00

C. Economic and Financial Analysis

18. The project cost has been estimated at Rupees Eight crores and twenty four

lakhs out of which capital cost will be about Rupees Five crores and sixty lakh

towards purchase of equipments and recurring cost will be about Rupees Two

crores and sixty four lakhs. The net financial impact will be addition of cutting-

edge instruments in the Institute for carrying out advanced coastal management

research. Such impact will also be reflected in the form of peer-reviewed

scientific papers likely to be published in internationally reputed scientific

journals.

D. Environmental Assessments

19. The implementation of the project will not have any bearing on ecology and

environment of the locality. The design and minor modifications of the laboratory

space will involve only minor indoor renovation works. The running of the

instruments will not involve hazardous activities and storage or use of harmful

substances, neither will there be any harmful emission/generation of

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air/water/solid waste. Construction and operation of permanent tide gauge stations

are not likely to pose any adverse environmental impact as these stations are small

in size to be located on estuaries themselves. There is no need for a detailed

environmental assessment.

Social Assessments

20. Since the project does not involve any land acquisition of private land and

any displacement of any men and material no R & R Plan, land acquisition plan

and schedule will be required.

Details of community consultations and agreements

21. No community consultation or agreement is to be made because the project

does not involve any acquisition of private and community property.

E. Implementation Arrangement & Schedule

i) Proposed implementation management process

22. Overall implementation management of the program will rest with Mr

Somenath Bhattacharyya, Senior Scientist, IESWM who will be responsible for

both aspects of procurement of instruments and implementation of associated

research programs. He will co-ordinate the various activities related to

implementation of the project and will be specifically responsible for timely

submission of reports and publication of quality scientific papers in international

journals.

23. Review of detailed specifications and other terms and conditions of the

procurement related to tendering of the instruments will be made by the Co-

ordinator of the Project before tendering.

ii) Quality control procedures, third party checking requirements, need for hiring consultants

24. The quality of research proposed to be carried out deploying the procured

instruments will be judged by the publications that are planned to be brought out

periodically in peer-reviewed international journals. Such journals have their own

system of evaluating the quality of research reported in the submitted papers and

thus will provide for a strict quality control.

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iii) Implementing Agencies- Roles and Responsibilities

25. The project on capacity building of IESWM as part of ICZM Project of

West Bengal will be implemented by Mr Somenath Bhattachaeryya, Senior

Scientist who will be the co-ordinator of the Project and will be responsible for

implementation of the project including the financial control of expenditure. The

Contract Scientist to be recruited will be responsible for procurement of the

instruments, their installation, calibration & up-keep. The successful

implementation of the research programs including other staff recruitment, field

and laboratory operations for achieving the objectives of the research programs,

publication of research papers, etc will be the principal responsibilities of the

recruited Contract Scientist.

iv) Staffing Plan

26. The staffing plan of the capacity building project of IESWM as follows:

1 Contract Scientist

3 Research Associate

4 Research Fellow

2 General Duty Attendant

10 Guards for five permanent tide gauge stations

They will be available to participate in the project during its entire duration but

will be recruited on contract basis for the duration of the project which is estimated

at five years.

v) Procurement and implementation plans

27. All procurements will be done by inviting competitive bids as per the World

Bank norm. Bid evaluation committee will be formed in SPMU with at least one

expert from IESWM for examination of the bids and bids will be accepted as per

the recommendation of the evaluation committee.

vi) Implementation schedule

28. Implementation schedule of the entire project is given in the following

Table:

Sl

no Work elements

months

0-6 7-12 13-18 19-24 25-30 31-36 37-42 43-48 49-54 55-60

1. Recruitment of research staffs

2. Finalisation of specifications

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Sl

no Work elements

months

0-6 7-12 13-18 19-24 25-30 31-36 37-42 43-48 49-54 55-60

of instruments to be procured,

tendering, bid evaluation and

award of supply

3 Receipt of instruments, their

installation/calibration, trial

run and validation of

generated data

4 Implementation of first phase

of the research programs

5 Evaluation of the results

obtained and submission of

first set of research paper(s) to

reputed journals

6 Implementation of second

phase of the research

programs

7 Integration and evaluation of

data and their interpretation

and submission of final set of

research paper(s) to reputed

journals

F. Operations and Maintenance Planning

Operational Plans for assets designed

29. The assets to be created under the project is a set of sophisticated

instruments in order to carry out research in frontier areas of Estuarine and Near

Shore Survey and Research (ENSSR) as part of contribution to Integrated Coastal

Zone Management of West Bengal. These instruments along with other installed

equipments will be operated optimally to gain maximum quality relevant data out

put. Laboratory space to accommodate the instruments, necessary infra-structural

facilities to run the instruments, basic technical, laboratory and computing support

will be available as part of functioning of IESWM.

Maintenance requirement & estimate of O & M costs

30. The instruments to be procured are to be run through operation and handling

by trained personnel. Therefore training of research staff members is imperative.

Proper maintenance also requires that the manufacturer provide adequate and

required spares for any repair. Manufacturer is also required to carry out

preventive maintenance at required intervals.

31. Operation cost involving use of infrastructural facilities like electricity, etc

of the procured instruments will be borne by IESWM through its regular operation

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of the departmental laboratories. The maintenance cost of the procured instruments

through AMC has been estimated at Rs 10,00,000/- per year for the second and

third year.

Plans for O & M

32. Procurement contract of all instruments will include the following O & M

requirements:

a training component to be provided by the manufacturer before/during

installation of the instruments.

a warranty clause of defect repair and maintenance for one year from the

date of successful installation of the instruments.

annual maintenance clause, at agreed costs, if requested, for at least five

years after the warranty period.

Equipment & Tools

33. The required equipment and tools proposed to be procured have already

been listed. Detailed specifications of the equipments are given in Annexure 1 and

Annexure 2. Additionally for chemical analysis of water and sediments in the field

a mobile chemical laboratory will be procured. The specification of the mobile

chemical laboratory is given as Annexure 3.

Skills to be built up, manpower to be hired, outsourcing contractors to be hired, systems to be established (MIS, accounting, asset management etc.)

34. The research program plans to build up a pool of skilled research scholars

who can in future take up research independently in advancing frontiers of coastal

zone research as is related to coastal zone situations of India in general and West

Bengal in particular. Their participation in the proposed program may lead to their

working substantially for a doctoral degree equipping them further in required

qualifications to be hired in advanced research institutes.

35. It has been planned to hire One Contract Scientist, 3 Research Associates,

four Research Fellows and two general duty attendants for the project in order to

carry out the planned work plan. However no outsourcing contractor is planned to

be hired. No specialized systems are planned to be established.

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Financial Management Frame Work

36. A separate financial management structure will be created in the IESWM

for its capacity building program consisting of the Principal Investigator and an

accounts clerk specifically recruited for the program essentially to give

administrative and financial approval of expenditure and to authorize payment

following government norms. Chief Administrative Officer of IESWM will

provide apex guidance. Three types auditing of this account will be carried out –

internal audit, statutory audit and government audit. The first two types of audit

will be conducted by a certified Chartered Accountant firm and the government

audit will be made by the office of CAG.

Fund Flow and Disbursement Arrangement

37. Funds received from government on account of ICZM project at the

Institute will be received in a specified account of the IESWM to be opened in a

nationalized bank to be operated by SPMU. Funds from this account will be

transferred to a second specified account to be opened by the IESWM for capacity

building program.

All expenditure relating to capacity building program of IESWM will be made

through A/C payee checks of the second bank account against pre-receipted

invoices supported by necessary required documents. Sundry office expenses will

be made for which proper adjustment bills with supported documents will be

required against advance drawn or payments made in cash against cash

memos/vouchers on expenditure already incurred by any person upon authority

from the Principal Investigator of the capacity building program.

Accounting Policies & Procedure

38. Double entry accounting system and cash basis method are followed in the

IESWM for all programs and the same accounting procedure will be followed for

its capacity building program. All transactions will be made employing Tally,

ERP9.

Cost of O & M, revenue recovery plans, proposed tariffs, subsidy levels

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39. As indicated in O & M Plan above, the cost of operation relating to capacity

building will be met from fund transferred by IESWM to the corpus fund of the

ICZM project authority. The contribution so received from the allocated fund will

be received as per proper procedure and all expenditure on the maintenance will be

controlled by the ICZM project authority. The tariff for the use of the facilities by

external agencies during spare time of the instruments will be fixed by IESWM as

per prevailing national/international rate. No additional financial support from the

Government has been envisaged.

G. Monitoring and Evaluation

Expected Outcome

40. The expected outcome of the Project is augmentation in instrumental

facilities for research in IESWM. The other outcome is building up of a pool of

trained scientific manpower conversant with advanced instrumental facilities to

take up cutting edge research in the above two fields of study. The third outcome

is a contribution towards understanding response of coastal processes in

Sundarban due to climate change and related issues. Peoples’ perception of the

Sundarban eco-system will be realized through the activities of the proposed

Interpretation Centre by Tagore Research Society. This will be a significant

outcome involving the people at the grass root level.

Project completion report

41. A report providing an analysis of achievement of project objectives, design,

impact and sustainability will be prepared which will enable identification of

positive and negative lessons learned. For evaluation purposes the following

reports will be used.

Mid-term evaluation

42. A report analyzing and describing project achievements will be presented

against the plans outlined in the project document. It will visualize initial lessons

learned and the needs for possible adjustments of the project. The evaluation may

be prepared by the partner or by parties external to the project.

Post evaluations

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43. Post evaluations will be conducted by parties external to the project.

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Annexure – 1

I. Specifications of required hardware

1. Workstation of moderate ranges carrying out day to day image processing and GIS

works having the following configurations

HP Z400 workstation or equivalent

1 X Quad Core Intel Xeon W3570 Processor @ 3.20 GHz, 8 MB Cache

HP 6 GB (3 X 2GB) DDR3-1333 ECC RAM

3 X HP 500 GB SATA 7200 HDD with RAD5 implementation with hardware

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 Graphics – 512 MB

64 Bit Processor, Chipset X58 Express

Operating System : Microsoft Windows 7

HP USB Standard Keyboard and HP USB Optical Scroll Mouse

Standard Three Years Next Business Day on-site warranty as per OEM Terms

& Conditions

HP LP2275W 22 inch Widescreen Performance LCD Monitor

2. Work Station with higher ranges for carrying out image analysis with higher data

load. These should have the following configurations

HP Z600 Workstation or equivalent

1 X Quad Core Intel Xeon E5540 Processor @ 2.53 GHz, 8 MB Cache;

HP 12 GB (3X4GB) DDR3-1333 ECC RAM

3 X HP 500 GB SATA 7200 HDD with RAD5 implementation with hardware

NVIDA Quadro FX1800 Graphics – 768 MB

Operating System - Microsoft Windows 7

HP LP2275W 22in Widescreen Performance LCD Monitor

HP Solenoid Hood Lock & Hood Sensor

HP FireWire IEEE 1394a 3-Port PCI Card

HP Z600 650W 85% Efficient Chassis

HP Energy Star 5.0 Enabled Configuration

HP USB Standard Keyboard and HP USB Optical Scroll Mouse

Standard Three Years Next Business Day on-site warranty as per OEM Terms

& Conditions

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3) A-0 Large Format scanner cum copier cum printer having the following

configuration:

HP Designjet 1120 MFP (44 inch)

Functions : Print; Copy; Scan

Memory (Standard) : Printer:384 MB; Scanner: 1 GB

Hard Disk (Standard): Printer 80 GB; Scanner: 40GB

Print Technology : HP Thermal Inkjet

Ink Cartridges : 6 (Cyan, grey, magenta, matte black, photo black, yellow)

Print Languages (Standard) : Adobe postscript 3; Adobe PDF 1.6; TIFF;

JPEG; HP-GL/2; HP-RTL; CALS G4; HP PCL 3 GUI;

Document Finishing : Printer : Sheet feed; roll fed; automatic cutter; scanner:

sheet fed

Linear scan speed: Colour (200 dpi/400 dpi Turbo): upto 2 in/sec; black and

white (200 dpi / 400 dpi Turbo): up to 6 in/sec

Scan resolution (optical): Up to 508 dpi

Scan size, maximum (flatbed) : 42-inch wide

Connectivity (Standard) : Printer 1 Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Base-T) port; 1

Hi-speed USB, 2.0 certified port; 1 EIO Jetdirect accessory slot; scanner:1

Fast Ethernet (100Base–T) port; 1 FireWire (IEEE-1394a compliant) port

Printer with printheads (3 X 2 colors each); introductory ink cartridges; 44-in

stand; quick reference guide; start-up software; scanner; touchscreen (panel

PC); keyboard; scanner documentation CD; system recovery DVD; customer

service guide; USB cable; FireWire cable; Ethernet cable; power cords

Three year Next Business Day On-site Warranty as per OEM Terms &

Conditions

4) A-3 size small format rrinter cum scanner and copier having the following

configuration:

HP Color Laserjet CM 6030

5) Network server with storage device

Other Technical Information

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Annexure - II

II. Specification of Required Software

1. Image processing software Geomatica Version 10.1 Floating License on Windows

Platform with following modules

Geomatica Core, Auto Mosaic, Satellite Models, High Resolution Models, Generic and RPC

Models, Automatic DEM Extraction, Cartosat and Pan Sharpening

2. Image processing software ERDAS Imagine Professional V 9.3 Image Processing

software with the following modules

ERDAS Imagine Professional V 9.3, ERDAS Imagine Vector, ERDAS Imagine Virtual GIS,

ERDAS Imagine Delta Cue, ERDAS Imagine AutoSync, ERDAS Imagine Subpixel

Classifier, ERDAS Imagine Easy Trace, ER Mapper Image Compressor, Image Web Server

3. GIS software of ESRI make : ARC-GIS package for GIS works with the following

modules :

Arc GIS Arc Info GIS 9.3.1 software, Spatial Analyst Extension, 3-D Analyst Extension,

Geo-statistical Analyst Extension, Survey Analyst Extension, Network Analyst Extension,

Tracking Analyst Extension, Arc GIS Publisher Extension

4. Mike 21 software with the following modules :

Mike 21 PP (Flexible Mesh), Mike 21 HD (Flexible Mesh); Waves – Mike 21 NSW (Single

Grid), Mike 21 SW (Flexible Mesh); Sediment – Mike 21 ST (Flexible Mesh), Mike 21 MT

(Flexible Mesh), Mike 21 PA (Flexible Mesh); Environmental – Mike 21 AD (Flexible

Mesh), Mike 21 SA (Multiple Grid), Mike 21Eco Lad (Flexible Mesh), , ECO LAB all

templates

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Annexure – III

I. Specification for I.P based permanent GPS station

Differential Global Positioning system, permanent observatory type with facility for off line

as well as network operation, with mm accuracy as per technical specification given below :-

A) RECEIVER: The quoted receiver should be compatible to latest GNSS Technology

with faciliy to track GPS & GLONASS satellites with in built facility for upgradation

to future GNSS signals like Galileo.

i) No of channels should be 120 or more.

iii) It must have enough memory to store at least 90 days data at 30 secs rate.

ii) It must have facility to record GPS data at two sampling intervals simultaneously.

iv) It should have LED indicators for power, tracking & memory.

v) It must have 2 external power ports , 4 serial ports . one dedicated Antenna port, one

dedicated Ethernet port and optionally other ports for control unit , external oscillator ,

event input & PPS output.

vi) Environmental Conditions – MIL – standard , must with-stand temporary

submersion to 1m water , rain , dust , sand , wind , resistant as per IP67 / IP57.

Operating Temp :- -40 degree C to + 65 degree C

Storage Temp :- 40 degree C to + 80 degree C

vii) Must have memory card slot for easy transfer of data.

viii) Each receiver must have a dedicated controller with our QVGA display , full

alphanumeric keys , hot user defined keys for on sight configuration of receiver other

settings.

viii) The receiver must have facility to down load data at suitable time interval in Rinex

formats.

B) ANTENNA : Antenna should be of choke-ring type with Dorne Margolin element,

having facility for tracking GPS & GLONASS signals with upgrade facility for future

signals like Galileo with in built facility for multi path mitigation.

i) It must have suitable Radom & force centering device for fitting on a pillar.

ii) It must have 30mts GPS antenna cable with proper armour protection.

iii) The whole system must have lighting arrester and emp/surge protection.

C) Post processing software / Configuration software as required to run the system.

D) Solar panel , UPS and other cables / chargers / accessories to run the entire system

without personal invention.

E) Telemetry system to send data to central processing station at user defined interval.

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II. Specification for the following coastal process monitoring instruments

1. Tide gauge (strain gauge type) with display unit

2. Automatic weather station

3. Tide gauge (strain gauge type)/Directional wave recorder

4. Eco-sounder

5. Bottom sediment sampler

6. Suspended sediment sampler

7. Solar panel for tide gauge station

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Annexure 3

MOBILE CHEMICAL LABORATORY

1. The eastern part of the coastal areas of West Bengal is occupied principally by the

Sundarban which is the single largest chunk of mangrove forest in the world. The forest

performs an important ecological function to sustain its character. It has been estimated (the

mangroves of South –East Asian countries) that on an average, 6000 tons of mangrove litters

are released annually from each hectare of dense forestlands of Sundarban. Enormous

amount of organic nutrients are thus released to the coastal soil and water providing natural

food for estuarine fish, prawns, crab species. Besides the dense mangrove forests of the

Sunderban also provide shelter and nursery ground for the fry and fingerlings and the

juveniles of the estuarine and offshore species. However, the entire coastal ecosystem of

Sundarban is fragile in nature and it is on the threshold of change due to natural and man

induced processes. The salinity profile of the Indian Sundarban is on the increase as a

consequence of change in course of River Ganges. Because of this some of the mangrove

species (such as Herittiera fomes) is facing extinction. High saline water compounded with

siltation of the beds of different creeks and rivers has resulted in alarming salt deposition

degrading the mangrove community. Various forms of human intervention for last 200 years

or so have further complicated the problem making it more fragile. A rough estimate points

to the fact that, on an average of 396,939 kg/day of pollution load is generated by the

Calcutta Metropolitan City. A large part of it, i.e. 220,900 kg/day is diverted or released to

the Kulti Gang (a tidal river in Sundarban) directly and passes in the Sunderban estuaries. On

the western part of the coast of West Bengal, development of tourism facilities is on the rise.

Necessary municipal services to treat the wastes are however yet to develop to a satisfactory

level. As a consequence the threat of pollution of the coastal stretches is high. It is imperative

therefore regular and on-the-spot chemical and biological analysis especially of coastal water

are carried out to have an insight into the level of pollution, organize site-specific mitigative

measures and ultimately make it a part of the integrated coastal zone management of West

Bengal coast. Since the coastal areas of West Bengal especially the Sundarban part are not

readily accessible and far from the areas where an off-site laboratory could be set up, the

necessity of procuring a mobile laboratory having the facilities of some basic analysis is

justified. Data produced through such analysis will be utilised for climate change study.

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2. It has been envisaged that such a mobile laboratory could be built on a truck chasis fitted

with furniture and equipment / instruments, electrical wiring, water supply pipelines, wash

basins etc. There will be a single outlet point of electrical line, where an electrical connection

will be made during operation. Similar is the case with water supply. In normal condition

this mobile laboratory will be kept at the head quarter in Kolkata. But during the period of

sampling for investigation and monitoring, the mobile laboratory will move to the field and

electrical connection, water supply connections etc. will be made. In case, electrical

connection is not available, diesel generator will be pressed into service and water supply

will be made using a mini pump. All instruments and equipment will be firmly strapped

within the laboratory body so that these do not get damaged during transportation.

3. A cost estimate of one mobile laboratory is given below:

Sl.

No.

Description

Rate per

unit in INR

in lakhs

Quantity

Total cost

in INR in

lakhs

1. Truck chasis and body building 30.00 1 30.00

2. UV-VIS Spectrophotometer

(double beam)

7.00 1 7.00

3. Turner-Designs Fluorometer (for

pigments and CDOM)

10.00 1 10.00

4. Digital Analytical Balance 2.00 2 4.00

5. Portable Water Analyser 1.50 2 3.00

6. pH-Meter 0.50 2 1.00

7. Filtration apparatus, complete 0.50 2 1.00

8. Mini Spinwin 0.60 2 1.20

9. Hot-air oven 0.15 1 0.15

10. Autoclave 0.25 1 0.25

11. Deep-Freezer 0.50 1 0.50

12. Refrigerator 0.15 2 0.30

13. Air conditioner 0.30 2 0.60

14. Air curtain 0.20 2 0.40

15. Generator 0.50 2 1.00

16. Total 60.40

Rounded off to Rupees sixty lakhs only

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A sketch of Container Laboratory in use at National Institute of Ocean Technology,

Chennai

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