Mamata Banerjee claimed that generally water is launched with none discover to the state authorities(file)
Kolkata:
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote one other letter to PM Narendra Modi on the flood state of affairs in West Bengal, sustaining that Damodar Valley Company (DVC) launched water from its reservoirs with out consulting her authorities, inundating a number of districts.
Responding to Banerjee’s earlier letter to the PM, Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Paatil had stated the state’s officers had been knowledgeable at each stage in regards to the launch of water from DVC reservoirs, which was important to stop a serious catastrophe.
Banerjee stated, “Whereas the hon’ble minister claims that the discharge from DVC dams was carried out by consensus and collaboration with the Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee, together with consultations with representatives of the federal government of West Bengal, I’ll respectfully disagree.” “All of the vital choices are made unilaterally by representatives of the Central Water Fee, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Authorities of India with out arriving at a consensus,” she stated.
Banerjee claimed that generally water is launched with none discover to the state authorities and the views of her authorities should not honoured.
“Furthermore peak launch from the reservoirs lasting for a protracted interval of 9 hours had been performed with solely 3.5 hours discover which proved inadequate for efficient catastrophe administration,” she stated within the letter dated September 21, which was made public on Sunday.
In her letter to PM Modi on September 20, she claimed that 5 million individuals within the state had been affected by the floods, and urged him to right away sanction and launch central funds to handle the widespread devastation.
In his letter, Paatil addressed the chief minister’s issues in regards to the flooding brought on by the discharge of water from the DVC reservoirs.
He defined that the releases had been managed by the Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee (DVRRC), which incorporates representatives from the Central Water Fee, West Bengal, Jharkhand, and the DVC.
Paatil clarified that from September 14 to 17, the discharge of water from the Maithon and Panchet reservoirs was curtailed by 50 per cent on the request of West Bengal officers attributable to heavy rainfall.
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