West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wed demanded the central government like a shot "revamp" the Damodar vale Corporation, holding it chargeable for the flood-like scenario in her rain-hit state.
The DVC but control that it's "no role" in emotional water because the call is formed by Damodar vale Reservoir Regulation Committee (DVRRC) that has central government further because the authorities representatives.
"We area unit repeatedly asking the central government to scrub and dredge the previous barrages of DVC since 2012. The capability of those barrages have reduced as a result of geological phenomenon. Therefore, the dams that ought to be ready to contain another 2 large integer cusecs of water, don't seem to be ready to do thus. i feelthe central government ought to take initiatives to revamp the DVC.
"If the lands get soggy as a result of precipitation the it will be attributed to natural disaster. however our some components of our state gets more inundated as a result of the water discharged from some barrages per annum," Banerjee same.
Expressing alarm concerning the present scenario in varied components within the state that area unit soggy since the previous couple of days, she same a minimum of 2 to a few districts may go underwater as a result of the largequantity of water discharged from the dams.
She demanded the central government ought to begin dredging at places like Farraka barrage and ports of city and Haldia to prevent this flooding per annum.
"Farraka isn't dredged. As a result state faces issues once the water there overflows. No dredging is completed in cityport, Haldia port and Ganga watercourse bed either. If this was done, the state wouldn't have suffered per annum like this," she accessorial.
The DVC has discharged 2 large integer cusec water within the last 3 days from its Panchet dam and has issued a flood warning report on Wed.
Claiming that the water pressure to possess augmented within the dam as a result of the large precipitation in Jharkhand, a DVC official told IANS that it's no different however to unleash water.
Refuting the geographical area government's allegation that DVC isn't adhering to its proposal of not emotional the water from the dams for successive few days, the official same the choices area unit taken by the DVRRC that has each central and authorities representatives.
The official same as on nine.13 pm on Wed, cumulatively, total water discharged from Panchet dam was two, 25,000 cusecs.
"Additional one,05,000 cusecs water was discharged nowadays (Wednesday)," a DVC official same.
Bengal Irrigation Minister Rajib Banerjee said: "We are requesting the Tenughat barrage authority to step by step bring down the extent of water from June. Water discharged from Jharkhand is intensifying things here. we have a tendency to had submitted a close project report for the flood management within the lower Damodar geographical region to the Centre in 2015 however not one penny was received by USA.a
Birbhum, West Midnapore, East Midnapore, Hooghly, Murshidabad, Bankura and Howrah area unit the worst affected districts.
The minister conjointly conversant things in districts like Bankura is rising whereas the condition in districts like Hooghly might worsen if DVC does not hang to the state's requests. He same around two hundred families area unitcornered in Murshidabad's Bharatpur and therefore the method of distributing relief and food has been initiated.
State Agriculture Minister Purnendu Bose toured a number of the flood-hit areas to assess the harm to crops.
Source :- Zee News
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