IITKGP
Somnath Ghosal, IIT Kharagpur

Somnath Ghosal

Ph.D., University of Nottingham, UK

Associate Professor

Centre for Rural Development and Innovative Sustainable Technology

+91-3222-2283894

somnath@iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Head, Center for Rural Development and Innovative Sustainable Technology
  • Coordinator, RuTAG
  • Member, SPARC

Research Areas

  • Regional Planning and Public Policy for Development Projects
  • Skill Development for Livelihood Generation
  • Ethnographic and Qualitative Research
  • Education, Health and Water Management
  • Social Forestry for Entrepreneurship
Action Research with Community Participation
Science, Society, and Public Policy
Regional Planning and Public Policy
Skill Development for Livelihood Generation
Rural Infrastructure Planning (Drinking Water, Health, and Education)
Social Forestry and Natural Resource Based Entrepreneurship
Green Urban Planning, Environment, and Biodiversity Management
Research Design for Development Projects
Ethnographic, Qualitative, and Archival Research
  • Unravelling the Impact of Land Use Transformation on Thermal Environment Across Seasons: A Comprehensive Study of Rapidly Urbanizing Patna Planning Area, India. by Kumar H., Ghosh M. , Ghosal S. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. - (2025)
  • The Chronology of Community Participation in Indian Forest Management. by Ghosal S., Liu J. Journal of International Forestry Review. 20 79-88 (2018)
  • Community Forest Dependency: Re-examining Established Thoughts with Empirical Evidence from Eastern India by Ghosal S., Goswami T. European Journal of Forest Research - (2024)
  • Proposing Civil Structures for Managed Aquifer Recharge in Relevant Sites of Shilabati River: An Integrated Spatial Analysis. by Goswami T., Ghosal S. Environmental Earth Sciences 82 - (2023)
  • Societal Impact Analysis of Community Managed Potable Water Supply System in Rural India. by Ghosal S., Ruj C. Journal of Applied Social Science 17 148-167 (2023)
  • Status of Mountain Tourism and Research in the Indian Himalayan Region: A Systematic Review. by Chakraborty P., Ghosal S. Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science 6 863-897 (2022)
  • Examining the Groundwater Level in a Semi-arid District of Eastern India: Spatiotemporal Trends, Determinants, and Future Prospects. by Goswami T., Ghosal S. Environment, Development and Sustainability 25 10929-10953 (2022)
  • Climate Change Vulnerability of Rural Households in Flood-Prone Areas of Himalayan Foothills, West Bengal, India. by Ghosh M., Ghosal S. Environment, Development and Sustainability. 23 2570-2595 (2021)
  • Field Testing of Low-cost Titania-Based Photocatalysts for Enhanced Solar Disinfection (SODIS) in Rural India. by Porley V., Chatzisymeon E., Meikap B.C., Ghosal S., Robertson N. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology. 6 809-816 (2020)
  • Determinants of Household Livelihood Vulnerabilities to Climate Change in the Himalayan Foothills of West Bengal, India. by Ghosh M., Ghosal S. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 50 - (2020)

Principal Investigator

  • Sustainable Lake Operations IITKGP FOUNDATION
  • Technology for Rural Transformation: Transfer, Adoption, and Management Various Sponsors,PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT ACTION

Ph. D. Students

Debkumar Singha

Area of Research: Impact of Social Media on Indigenous Life

Saikat Paul

Area of Research: Impact of Climate Change on Rural Livelihoods

Vijeta Kachhap

Area of Research: Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy and Law