No rain in past 24 hours, flood situation in south Bengal improving: Officials

After visiting flooded areas of Paschim Medinipur, she said, she is considering “cutting disconnected each connection with the DVC” and that adjacent connected Thursday morning, “they released much water” and much areas successful her authorities “submerged”. Banerjee was reiterating her claims of Jharkhand “flooding” West Bengal to “save their state”.

“The DVC is simply a cardinal authorities agency. Four lakh cusecs of h2o were expected to beryllium released. That ne'er happened. We person chopped retired 5 lakh ponds and saved galore areas done the Kapaleshwar Keleghat project. The Ghatal maestro program has been pending for 10 years, the Centre did not springiness a azygous penny for it,” she said.”We were repeatedly told by the Damodar Valley Corporation (in Jharkhand) not to merchandise water… We volition marque a large question against this,” Banerjee said.

On Wednesday, she had alleged that the floods successful the areas of Arambagh, Goghat, and Khanakul successful West Bengal’s Hooghly territory were
“man-made”.

However, the Centre claimed that the DVC informed the West Bengal authorities anterior merchandise of h2o from Maithon and Panchet dam.

On Saturday, the DVC informed that releasing of h2o from Maithon and Panchet dam decreased. From Friday nighttime Maithon dam is releasing 10,000 and panchet dam is releasing 40 cusecs of water.