Kolkata: West Bengal Bengal Head Mamata Banerjee, after taking a stock of flood situations in six state districts, writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday searching for intervention to develop a plan to improve the dam in the region.
Describing floods as “artificial people”, Banerjee holds “unprecedented water release from Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) Dams Panchet, Maithon and Tuughat” responsible for the situation of the flood.
Banerjee, in his letter, said 16 people died in the flood and lakh farmers lost their livelihoods.
He noted that houses, bridges, electrical channels and other infrastructure also suffered extensive damage.
“In connection with the current flood, we will immediately send an assessment of our damage to your type of intervention.
I will repeat the need to develop a holistic and long-term solution in connection with the Augmentation of the DVC system storage capacity to ensure that West Bengal and Western things have avoided routine destruction And suffering from man-made floods carried out by a large release of the DVC dam, “he wrote in his 4 page letter.
Previously on that day, PM had called Banerjee to find renewal of the situation of flooding in the state, and convinced him about the help of the center.
Mamata wrote to PM on the situation of flooding in Bengal, looking for its intervention to improve dam
