Statesman News Service
MALDA, (India) Dec. 11. — In order to formulate an appropriate policy to stem erosion on the left bank of the Ganga, two morphology study committees have been formed in Malda comprising of state and Central officials, state irrigation engineers said. Officials said that the secretary of the state irrigation and waterways department has been selected as the chairman for the morphology study team for the river Ganga and the Pagla — it’s tributary. The superintending engineer of the Farakka Barrage Project is the member secretary of the new committee. The state irrigation officials and a member of the central water and power research station in Pune have also been inducted into the committee. The Malda district magistrate, Mr Abhijit Choudhuri, is the convener of this morphology study team. On the other hand, comprising of officials like the chief engineer and superintending engineer of the state irrigation division and a member of the Central Water Commission, another committee has been formed to study the big island, “Bhutni Diara”, located at mid-Ganga in Manikchak block. The two teams will conduct a study on the two rivers and the island, with a view to collect data, watching the present behaviour pattern of the Ganga, of its course, probable meandering change, formation of shoal, trend of silt deposit and its location with fresh erosion forecasting. The team will also keep a tab on the newly formed take off point at Pachanandapur in Kaliachak II. Similarly, another team will also study the trend of the Ganga near the Island Bhutni Diara to find out the cause of severe erosion. In this zone, the state irrigation department has recorded that over 50 hectare lands have been eroded away due to severe erosion this year. Officials said that the two teams would send data time to time to the concerned authorities with a view to chalk out strategies to check erosion on the left bank of the Ganga. The Malda irrigation officials had demanded a research wing here, a subsidiary of a research station, for continuous study of the Ganges not depending on the formula of the CWPRS that comes after a year to stem erosion when the configuration of the Ganga here has been changed.
MALDA, (India) Dec. 11. — In order to formulate an appropriate policy to stem erosion on the left bank of the Ganga, two morphology study committees have been formed in Malda comprising of state and Central officials, state irrigation engineers said. Officials said that the secretary of the state irrigation and waterways department has been selected as the chairman for the morphology study team for the river Ganga and the Pagla — it’s tributary. The superintending engineer of the Farakka Barrage Project is the member secretary of the new committee. The state irrigation officials and a member of the central water and power research station in Pune have also been inducted into the committee. The Malda district magistrate, Mr Abhijit Choudhuri, is the convener of this morphology study team. On the other hand, comprising of officials like the chief engineer and superintending engineer of the state irrigation division and a member of the Central Water Commission, another committee has been formed to study the big island, “Bhutni Diara”, located at mid-Ganga in Manikchak block. The two teams will conduct a study on the two rivers and the island, with a view to collect data, watching the present behaviour pattern of the Ganga, of its course, probable meandering change, formation of shoal, trend of silt deposit and its location with fresh erosion forecasting. The team will also keep a tab on the newly formed take off point at Pachanandapur in Kaliachak II. Similarly, another team will also study the trend of the Ganga near the Island Bhutni Diara to find out the cause of severe erosion. In this zone, the state irrigation department has recorded that over 50 hectare lands have been eroded away due to severe erosion this year. Officials said that the two teams would send data time to time to the concerned authorities with a view to chalk out strategies to check erosion on the left bank of the Ganga. The Malda irrigation officials had demanded a research wing here, a subsidiary of a research station, for continuous study of the Ganges not depending on the formula of the CWPRS that comes after a year to stem erosion when the configuration of the Ganga here has been changed.
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