Dr.Ashok Kumar Ghosh

M.Sc.(Gold Medalist),Ph.D.

Professor Incharge

Dept. of Environment and Water Management

A.N.College,Patna

Dr. Ashok Kumar Ghosh is working as Professor-in-Charge in the department of Environment and Water Management, A.N.College [Magadh University], Patna, India. He is engaged in active research in the area of water quality, especially arsenic and fluoride contaminations in groundwater resources. He is an International Scientific Advisor of UKIERI- sponsored research project for Arsenic studies-PRAMA [University of Manchester]. He is a collaborator in the Environmental Conservation studies under Cambridge-India Partnership. He is an advisor of WaterAid India, an affiliate of WaterAid U.K., and also of East Zone Water partnership, an affiliate of Global Water Partnership(GWP). He was the P.I. of UNICEF-sponsored project on arsenic-affected groundwater in Bihar and reported many Arsenic hotspots in four districts of Bihar(Patna,Bhojpur,Bhagalpur and Vaishali). Currently he’s working on UGC-sponsored project on Risk Assessment of Population in Arsenic Affected Areas in Bhojpur District, Bihar. Besides Dr.Ghosh is also working on a project on Nano-biotechnology, sponsored by UGC.Dr.Ghosh has presented his research papers in International Seminars in India and abroad (USA, UK, Australia,

Ireland and Spain)