Sourav Bar

PhD scholar, Interested in Marine Pollution and Microplastic

[MoES NIOT @MoesNiot]

Coastal Cleanup Drive Organised at Digha Beach under Swachh Sagar Surakshit Sagar 5.0

Around 100 participants join initiative to raise awareness on marine pollution and sustainable practices

Kolkata, September 12, 2026

To mark the beginning of Swachh Sagar Surakshit Sagar 5.0 campaign, a coastal cleanup drive was organised today at Digha, East Midnapore, by Ministry of Earth Sciences and coordinated Nation wide by National Institute of Ocean Technology(NIOT), Chennai. The cleanup drive commenced with an inaugural ceremony at the Marine Aquarium and Regional Centre (MARC). Around 100 participants, including college students and officials from MARC, Niot, Incois, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Indian Coast Guard, participated in the initiative.

Shri Sreenivasa Rao Gangi Reddy, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), inaugurated the programme, along with NIOT.

The initiative was organised as a prelude to International Coastal Cleanup Day, to be observed on September 19, 2026, with the objective of creating greater awareness about marine pollution and encouraging sustainable practices for the protection of coastal and marine ecosystems.

[Santosh kumar Bera @Santoshkbera]

Happy to share our latest publication on the multi metal plastic adsorption experiment .This work led by @barsouravb9 @sudiptagho9901 @AjoyKBhaumik1 . Thanks @IITISM_DHANBAD @ISTEM_Insights for their facilities.
https://t.co/uYZ5Y6gg0M

[Punyasloke Bhadury @BhadPunyasloke]

Check this paper by @NirupamaSaini & #ShravaniMangeshkar where we report for the first time plastistone complex with intricate chemical composition, from the West coast of India in Maharashtra and possibly from India, published in Discover Oceans @SpringerNature @ITMERG1

[Sourav Bar @barsouravb9]

@BhadPunyasloke @NirupamaSaini @SpringerNature @ITMERG1 Many many Congratulations to all the authors.

[Wildlife Institute of India @wii_india]

*Observe. Record. Contribute.*
Participate in the Campus Bird Count 2026, organized by the EIACP Centre, Wildlife Institute of India, and support nationwide avian monitoring efforts.

🗓️ 13–16 February 2026

Register: https://t.co/HZZaXdadCI

@moefcc @wii_india @GobindsagarBha1 @EIACPIndia @wii_eiacp @Kramesh95 @CRamesh_WII @birdcountindia @Team_eBird @SACONCoimbatore

#CBC2026 #BirdCountIndia #EIACP #WII

[Sourav Bar @barsouravb9]

@BhadPunyasloke @Santoshkbera @sudiptagho9901 @AjoyKBhaumik1 @IITISM_DHANBAD @ISTEM_Insights Grateful for your kind words Sir, thank you!

[Santosh kumar Bera @Santoshkbera]

Happy to share our latest publication on the world's first study of microscale plastic mineral interaction from Bay of Bengal . This work led by @barsouravb9 @sudiptagho9901 @AjoyKBhaumik1 . Thanks @IITISM_DHANBAD @ISTEM_Insights for their facilities.
https://t.co/3VxpBP2rRE

[Punyasloke Bhadury @BhadPunyasloke]

Check this paper led by @NirupamaSaini with @Anweghosh where we show contribution of microplastics to particulate organic carbon pool in mangroves of Sundarbans; paper is online in Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances @ITMERG1 @ElsevierConnect

https://t.co/T6Rx8pIAJf

[Santosh kumar Bera @Santoshkbera]

#SwachhSagarSurakshitsagar Egra SSB College celebrates the coastal cleanup drive at Old Digha Beach ,WB . supported by @CentreCoastal
#MoES #NCCR #SwacchataHiSeva #SwacchCampaingn5_0 #internationalcoastalcleanupday2025 #ICDD2025 #beachcleanup

[Santosh kumar Bera @Santoshkbera]

A new publication from our Lab on Structural and chemical complexity of a brachiopod from BoB led by Prabad pratim Pal @barsouravb9 @sudiptagho9901 published in the journal of @JStructBiol . Happy to avail CRF of Dhanbad IIT Ism @IITISM_DHANBAD https://t.co/8njoLAxBmA

[National Centre for Coastal Research @CentreCoastal]

Clean Coasts in Action! NCCR leads massive beach cleanups across India (15–20 Sept). Today’s first stops: Juhu (Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College, Ghatkopar) & Kasaragod (Central Univ of Kerala). About 80% of the litter collected was plastic.
@moesgoi
@Ravi_MoES
@rskankara

[Punyasloke Bhadury @BhadPunyasloke]

Check our new paper led by @RaghuChandrase1 with @Anweghosh & @Vats_Chakresh reporting concurrent algal blooms in the middle part of River Ganga due to episodic nutrient inputs from small rivers @ITMERG1 @IOPenvironment @IOPPublishing

https://t.co/tG7v7FxiXW

[Punyasloke Bhadury @BhadPunyasloke]

The work led by @NirupamaSaini on plastic degrading enzymes & antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from mangroves is now Editor's choice in FEMS Microbiology Letters @FEMSmicro @OxUniPress & also getting covered by journalists in print media @the_hindu @MadhurimaPatta1 @ITMERG1

[Punyasloke Bhadury @BhadPunyasloke]

A great moment! Congratulations to all and also all the scientists who have been working on this unique waterscapes jointly with foresters.

[Oceana @oceana]

🌱 Mangrove forests break the force of typhoons and storm surges, which are intensifying with climate change. Yet decades of clearing have left many communities exposed.

Read more about the importance of these coastal guardians and @Oceana_ph's campaign to restore them: https://t.co/8eAVjMd0Zl

[Santosh kumar Bera @Santoshkbera]

Pleased to share our latest article on the ecological footprint of microplastic from the coastal tract of India led by @barsouravb9 @sudiptagho9901 from our lab CERL
https://t.co/QM66rZOnrl
Happy to access CRF @IITISM_DHANBAD through @ISTEM_Insights

[Punyasloke Bhadury @BhadPunyasloke]

Check our new paper led by @RaghuChandrase1 with @Anweghosh & @Vats_Chakresh published in ERC where we report cyanobacteria diatom bloom of Microcystis and Aulacoseira spp. in the middle stretch of River Ganga @IOPenvironment @IOPPublishing @ITMERG1

https://t.co/tG7v7FxiXW

[Sourav Bar @barsouravb9]

Thank you @ISTEM_Insights @IITISM_DHANBAD

[Santosh kumar Bera @Santoshkbera]

Happy to share our new paper at Env Research communication,IOP on #microplastic accumulation at crab. @ISTEM_Insights @sudiptagho9901 https://t.co/uw9cGo5hTi