Mumtazuddin said the VKSU initiative mainly drew upon the findings of research he had carried out between 19 when he was serving as a university level professor of chemistry at the Bhim Rao Ambedkar Bihar University, headquartered at Muzaffarpur in north Bihar. The university departments of chemistry and botany were also working to develop a simple model to be carried by the visiting teams for demonstration to villagers. These districts are known to be severely affected by arsenic poisoning. Several districts of Bihar, including Bhojpur and Buxar, falling under the academic jurisdiction of VKSU, are proposed to be covered under the ‘Lab to home’ mission. Under the mission, teams of teachers of chemistry department, assisted by researchers and post graduate (PG) students, from the VKSU will fan out among the people to demonstrate how a few green leaves of mango and jamun trees can purify the water used for drinking and other purposes, by absorbing the contaminants. Now, the VKSU, under its community extension programme initiated by Mumtazuddin, is all set to launch its ‘Lab to homes’ mission, aimed at demonstrating to the people at large the simplest ways of removing contaminants from drinking water. “What these leaves do is to absorb the contaminants, leaving the water in a fit state for drinking”, explained Mumtazuddin, posted at present as vice-chancellor of the Veer Kuer Singh university (VKSU), headquartered at Ara in Bhojpur district of south-central Bihar. The finding has been published in several journals, including the paper titled, ‘ Removal of arsenic using mango, java plum and neem tree barks’, which appeared in International Journal of advances in Pharmacy, Biology and Chemistry (IJAPBC), in 2012.
Research carried out by Syed Mumtazuddin, a university professor of chemistry and an expert in phyto-chemistry (plant research), has found all you need to purify contaminated water is to soak leaves of mango, jamun and neem trees in it for a few hours! A Bihar researcher has found mango, jamun and neem leaves can purify water laced with arsenic, fluoride and iron.(HT file photo) A university don in Bihar is taking to the masses the handiest of solutions to the problem of contamination of drinking water with excessive arsenic, fluoride and iron content, which afflicts an estimated 13 million people spread across eight states, including Bihar and Jharkhand.
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