Statesman News Service MALDA, May 31: Malda irrigation officials have stated they will not take responsibility for checking erosion at Bhutni Diara, an island in mid-Ganges. The executive engineer, Mr S Mishra, conveyed the decision to district officials at a time when they were reviewing last year’s erosion problem at Bhutni Diara and planning bank line protection measures. Quoting the government’s decision, Mr Mishra said that the state irrigation department handed over the 40-km bank line to the Farakka Barrage Project, a Central government unit. The stretch is now under the jurisdiction of the FBP. Last year, more than 50 hectares were eroded in the Bhutni Diara belt. Hundreds of families were rendered homeless after losing their land in the process.The Malda Zilla Parishad took an initiative to check erosion in this zone with the help of the district irrigation department. Funds were allotted to create jobs for people in the region. Mr Mishra said: “We have a circuit embankment, of which only the damaged part can be repaired for flood protection. “We do not know how the erosion can be controlled in the Bhutni Diara belt.”An official said: “To protect the circuit dyke at Bhutni in Manikchak block, anti-erosion work is imperative.”
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