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CM Mamata Banerjee during a programme astatine Sreebhumi sporting nine , , The taxable of Sree Bhumi puja is Tirupati .Express photograph by Partha Paul.Kolkata.01.10.24
Urging radical to supply assistance to flood-affected radical during the Durga Puja arsenic the residents of respective districts successful the authorities are reeling nether floodwater, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday reiterated that the flood concern successful the authorities was “manmade” and deed retired astatine the Central government.
Inaugurating Sree Bhumi Durga Puja — Fire Minister Sujit Bose is the patron of the puja committee – the main curate successful a veiled remark connected the ongoing protests by inferior doctors implicit RG Kar rape-murder said: “People of the authorities eagerly hold for Durga Puja, which successful Bengal marks the opening of the festive season. After that, determination volition beryllium Diwali, Kali puja, and Chhath puja. This festive play continues till the Christmas successful December.”
Claiming that the existent flood was “triggered” by the merchandise of “excessive” h2o from DVC barrages successful a abbreviated play aft dense rainfall successful the neighbouring states, she said: “We person to bring a grin to the faces of the flood-hit radical of the bluish and confederate districts. We person to supply alleviation to them portion we are celebrating Durga Puja. We person to beryllium connected the broadside of radical successful Malda’s Ratua, fractional of which is underwater, and respective different areas of northbound Bengal.”
“We person to beryllium vigilant astir the concern successful Kandi, Suti and Farakka till the time of Mahalaya – the clip of precocious tides,” she said.
Referring to the request to scope retired to flood-hit radical adjacent during the clip of festivals, she said, “We person to proviso rice, adust fruits and different nutrient items to the distressed people.”
“Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has precocious released lakhs of cusecs of h2o from its barrages successful a abbreviated play aft rainfall successful catchment areas, which flooded immense parts of southbound Bengal. People successful places, similar Khanakul successful Hooghly and parts of Howrah, are inactive reeling nether floodwater. I picture this flood arsenic man-made,” she said.
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