Statesman News Service
MALDA, May 25: Following instructions from the Jalpaiguri divisional commissioner, a meeting was convened by the Malda district administration today with heads of 15 departments such as irrigation, animal resource development, public health engineering, relief and police to chalk out flood protection measures. Senior officials reviewed the flood situation management in the district and discussed measures to be taken in case flood hits the region. Officials pointed out that nothing had come out of the construction plan of the proposed ninth retired embankment. Irrigation officials explained their plans of preventing floods by maintaining water levels in the Ganges up to a certain safe limit. Malda irrigation officials were instructed to keep strong vigil on Bhutni Diara, an island of the Ganges and keep tab on its erosion to prevent a repeat of last year’s disaster. Due to erosion of the Bhutni Diara last year, a large track of land comprising three-gram panchayats was eroded away. The Malda SP was also present in the meeting to discuss law and order situation and conduct rescue operation with help from civil defence and the border security force, in case the district was faced with a devastating flood of 1998 again. Additional district magistrate Mr BP Barat, informed that the administration has sufficient relief stock at present but further orders needed be placed for extra stock.
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