Man-made flood happened in Bengal due to dam body: Didi

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee will make an aerial survey of flood affected areas on Saturday while Chief Secretary HK Dwivedi is likely to accompany her.

Mamata also claimed that it is a man-made flood as Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) didn’t take the state government’s permission before releasing water.

“DVC has released several cusecs of water from Maithon and Panchet barrages without consulting the state government. West Bengal has to take the onus if it rains in Jharkhand and Bihar. It is a man-made disaster,” said the West Bengal Chief Minister.

Urging the people of the state to donate to Chief Minister’s Relief Fund, Mamata said that donation will help the government to serve the flood affected people better.

“Several places like Bankura, Purulia, Midnapore, Asansol and other parts of East Burdwan, parts of Howrah and Hooghly got submerged and several people have been rescued and works are going on to rescue all the affected people. Relief camps have also been set up,” mentioned Mamata.

Notably, on Thursday, Maithon had released 1lakh 15 thousand cusecs of water and Panchet had released 15 thousand cusecs of water.

Meanwhile, according to Nabanna sources, almost eight thousand people have been rescued and sent to relief camps.

Slamming the Chief Minister, West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar said that the people of DVC had a day earlier claimed that the Chief Minister will blame DVC for the flood.

7 Army columns deployed At least seven columns of army personnel have been deployed for flood relief operations in three districts of West Bengal, a defence official said here on Friday.

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