Mamata Banerjee urges Hemant Soren to monitor the water release from Jharkhand dams causing floods in southern Bengal
The Hindu
West Bengal CM discusses flood crisis with Jharkhand CM due to excessive water flow from DVC dams.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held talks with her Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren on Sunday to discuss the excessive water flow from the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) dams in Jharkhand, which is causing a flood-like situation in many parts of southern Bengal.
“I discussed with him the case of sudden and huge release of water from Tenughat, which has already started flooding Bengal. I told him that Jharkhand waters have been flooding Bengal, and this is man-made! I requested him to please take care of this,” the Chief Minister said in a post on X after the talks.
When the Tenughat dam, which is managed by the Jharkhand government, releases water, pressure also increases on the DVC dams at Maithon and Panchet, as all the dams are on the same Damodar River.
“I have meanwhile been monitoring the situation and have spoken to all the DMs concerned in South Bengal as well as in North Bengal,” Ms. Banerjee said in her post. “I have asked the DMs to be particularly vigilant and take proper care of the calamity situation in the next 3/4 days. I told them to take all precautionary measures so that there is no untoward incident anywhere,” she added.
On August 3, the two DVC dams had already released around 75,000 cusecs of water. According to official DVC records, they released another 1,20,000 cusecs of water at 7:44 a.m. on August 4. This back-to-back heavy outflow has led to flooding in many areas in southern Bengal.
Once water is released from the Maithon and Panchet dams, the pressure is eventually felt in the Durgapur barrage as well. Many low-lying areas around the main township at Durgapur were submerged due to the heavy flow of water from the barrage.
Durgapur residents Shibani and Swagata Das were among those affected. “Tamla canal is connected to the Durgapur barrage. When water rushed in from the barrage all houses around the canal were waterlogged. Rivers around the town are all flowing above danger level. If water increases, the situation will get worse,” Ms. Das said.
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