Bengal Rains: CM Mamata Banerjee Directs Administration to Monitor Situation Round-the-clock in North Bengal
"Problems arise if huge quantity of water is released at one go," she said, maintaining that a staggered release of water from the dams will be helpful.
Kolkata: Incessant rain in North Bengal has wreaked havoc within the nearby. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee instructed the officers to consistently discover the placement as there's the prospect of floods like circumstances which are mostly to turn up.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday expressed limitation over potential floods in north Bengal on account of the truth of heavy rains and instructed officers to consistently discover the scenario.
Banerjee asked officers to take steps to carry to come again stranded vacationers from neighbouring Sikkim and in faraway hills areas of Kalimpong and Darjeeling on account of landslides.
“Round-the-clock monitoring of the scenario have got to be ensured,” Banerjee observed, addressing a press conference on the flood-like scenario in north Bengal on account of incessant rains in substitute of areas within the world.
The chief minister observed 9 flood shelters had been opened in Jalpaiguri supplying unhazardous haven to Five hundred humans. She asked the electricity department to take preventive steps to preclude electrocution in the path of floods.
Banerjee observed in Cooch Behar district, 12 community kitchens had been opened in Tufanganj and Mathabhanga.
Stating that the arterial NH-10 used to be being repaired at areas the place damages took nearby on account of rains, the CM observed the scenario in Darjeeling and Kalimpong used to be every day.
She asked PWD authorities to notify the Army in case there's any harm to the usa considerable highways within the hills, as these are used by the forces for motion to border areas.
Banerjee observed that through the monsoon season, the Damodar Valley Market (DVC) should inform the kingdom beforehand than releasing water from its dams in south Bengal.
“Considerations come up if big amount of water is released at one go,” she observed, conserving that a staggered liberate of water from the dams will be substitute.
The CM asked the kingdom’s chief secretary to hunt suggestion from Eastern, South Eastern, NFR and Metro Railway authorities to make specific cleaning of their areas to make specific there should not be any waterlogging in the path of monsoon.
(With PTI Inputs)
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