UPPSC 2015 General Studies I Solved Paper

(d) According to a report by the World Bank, more than 1,312 villages in West Bengal, India, near the Ganges River are detrimentally affected by arsenic-contaminated groundwater. Other states are Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh in the flood plains of the Ganga,Assam and Manipur in the floodplains of the Brahmaputra and Imphal rivers.