Dr. Kalyan Rudra is presently Chairman of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board and also member of the Central Pollution Control Board. He is a Geographer by academic training specialized in river and water management. He took a break from his protracted teaching carrier in 2007 and joined a research project of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board. He worked as the Project Director in two projects of WBPCB - one on water resource and its quality and the other on dynamic river system of West Bengal. He has been the expert-member in the committee constituted by the apex court of the State for cleaning the Ganga since 2005. Dr. Rudra was a member of the National Flood Management Core Group and headed the committee constituted to advise the Government of West Bengal on the issue of Indo-Bangladesh sharing of Teesta water. He had been a member of the consortium of IITs which submitted the Ganga River Basin Management Plan to the Government of India in 2015.He is a regular Guest Faculty in the National Academy of Audit and Accounts, Academic Staff Colleges of Calcutta and Burdwan University. He has written/edited five books and many research papers which have been published in reputed journals of India and abroad. Dr. Rudra also worked with the International Union for Conservation of Nature to prepare the Indo-Bangladesh Transboundary River Atlas. He has worked on the history of mapping Bengal and edited “A Bengal Atlas” by James Rennell (1780).

• Chapter 1. Rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta: An Overview.- Chapter 2. Evolution of the Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta.- Chapter 3. Rivers of the Tari-Doors and Barind Tract.- Chapter 4. The Dynamic Ganga.- Chapter 5. The Jamuna-Meghna System.- Chapter 6. The Bhagirathi-Hugli River System.- Chapter 7. The Western Tributaries to the Bhagirathi-Hugli River.- Chapter 8. The Sundarban.- Chapter 9. Floods in the GBM Delta.- Chapter 10. Management of Rivers in the GB Delta.- Chapter 11. Conflicts over Sharing Waters of Trans-boundary Rivers.- Chapter 12. The Concept of Ecological Flow.

Dr. Kalyan Rudra is presently Chairman of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board and also member of the Central Pollution Control Board. He is a Geographer by academic training specialized in river and water management. He took a break from his protracted teaching carrier in 2007 and joined a research project of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board. He worked as the Project Director in two projects of WBPCB - one on water resource and its quality and the other on dynamic river system of West Bengal. He has been the expert-member in the committee constituted by the apex court of the State for cleaning the Ganga since 2005. Dr. Rudra was a member of the National Flood Management Core Group and headed the committee constituted to advise the Government of West Bengal on the issue of Indo-Bangladesh sharing of Teesta water. He had been a member of the consortium of IITs which submitted the Ganga River Basin Management Plan to the Government of India in 2015.He is a regular Guest Faculty in the National Academy of Audit and Accounts, Academic Staff Colleges of Calcutta and Burdwan University. He has written/edited five books and many research papers which have been published in reputed journals of India and abroad. Dr. Rudra also worked with the International Union for Conservation of Nature to prepare the Indo-Bangladesh Transboundary River Atlas. He has worked on the history of mapping Bengal and edited “A Bengal Atlas” by James Rennell (1780).

• Chapter 1. Rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta: An Overview.- Chapter 2. Evolution of the Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta.- Chapter 3. Rivers of the Tari-Doors and Barind Tract.- Chapter 4. The Dynamic Ganga.- Chapter 5. The Jamuna-Meghna System.- Chapter 6. The Bhagirathi-Hugli River System.- Chapter 7. The Western Tributaries to the Bhagirathi-Hugli River.- Chapter 8. The Sundarban.- Chapter 9. Floods in the GBM Delta.- Chapter 10. Management of Rivers in the GB Delta.- Chapter 11. Conflicts over Sharing Waters of Trans-boundary Rivers.- Chapter 12. The Concept of Ecological Flow.

Dr. Kalyan Rudra is presently Chairman of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board and also member of the Central Pollution Control Board. He is a Geographer by academic training specialized in river and water management. He took a break from his protracted teaching carrier in 2007 and joined a research project of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board. He worked as the Project Director in two projects of WBPCB - one on water resource and its quality and the other on dynamic river system of West Bengal. He has been the expert-member in the committee constituted by the apex court of the State for cleaning the Ganga since 2005. Dr. Rudra was a member of the National Flood Management Core Group and headed the committee constituted to advise the Government of West Bengal on the issue of Indo-Bangladesh sharing of Teesta water. He had been a member of the consortium of IITs which submitted the Ganga River Basin Management Plan to the Government of India in 2015.He is a regular Guest Faculty in the National Academy of Audit and Accounts, Academic Staff Colleges of Calcutta and Burdwan University. He has written/edited five books and many research papers which have been published in reputed journals of India and abroad. Dr. Rudra also worked with the International Union for Conservation of Nature to prepare the Indo-Bangladesh Transboundary River Atlas. He has worked on the history of mapping Bengal and edited “A Bengal Atlas” by James Rennell (1780).

• Chapter 1. Rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta: An Overview.- Chapter 2. Evolution of the Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta.- Chapter 3. Rivers of the Tari-Doors and Barind Tract.- Chapter 4. The Dynamic Ganga.- Chapter 5. The Jamuna-Meghna System.- Chapter 6. The Bhagirathi-Hugli River System.- Chapter 7. The Western Tributaries to the Bhagirathi-Hugli River.- Chapter 8. The Sundarban.- Chapter 9. Floods in the GBM Delta.- Chapter 10. Management of Rivers in the GB Delta.- Chapter 11. Conflicts over Sharing Waters of Trans-boundary Rivers.- Chapter 12. The Concept of Ecological Flow.