Ghatal: Head of West Bengal Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday visited flooded areas in Paschim Medinipur Regency and accused that passion with sanctions, the ghatal master plan by the center has caused a puddle of the region every year.
As per the planned Master Ghatal announced in 2009, several projects will be made to sue the river in the area, repair the canal and build dam on the Shilabati River, among others.
Banerjee, who navigated flood water in the areas under the municipality of Ghatal, said that he would send a ministerial team, MPs and MLA to New Delhi to pursue the center in approving this problem.
“This center does not pay attention to our requests for the Ghatal Master Plan.
Repeated requests fall on deaf ears,” he said.
As ghatal is a low beating area, it cannot be saved without a master plan, Banerjee said which also distributes assistance material to some affected people.
“I have conducted a survey of the area.
I will prepare a report about this.
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I think the administration must work more and plan widely,” said the ministerial head.
Banerjee who also took the area air survey said that he found that homes, shops and market places were underwater.
Administrative meetings, which are scheduled to be held in the auditorium in the area are canceled because they are flooded with flood water, officials said.
Banerjee said, “The team consisting of (investigating water resources and minister of development) Manas Bhuniya, (Minister of Irrigation) Soumen Mahapatra, (two other ministers) Siuli Saha and Srikant Mahato, (Ghatal’s Actor-MP) Dev and (Medinipur MLA) Jun Malia will go to Delhi during the ongoing rainy season parliamentary session and meet with the minister of irrigation to make their requests (for the ghatal plan).
“” Human-made flood “happens every year after the water is released from the dam, he said.
At least 23 people lost their lives and several lakh people had been transferred in seven South Bengal District in the floods described by Banerjee as “man-made”.
He has held the DVC responsible for the flood situation, claiming to release “excessive water” from the dam.
DVC, however, rejected the allegations said it waste water after receiving the approval of the state government and blamed the flood was not justified.
Some of the South Bengal District have witnessed rainy rainfall last week.
The minister’s chairman said that his government would send a proposal to the center of how to save Sunderbans and the city of the sea side Dotha from a similar inundation that occurred every year.
He said that the state government had spent RS 700 Crore for the Shipeswar-Kelgahai project and the community of Paschim Medinipur Regency had benefited from him.
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