Statesman News Service
MALDA, June 30: The banks of Ganges is eroding at a speeding rate at Domhat in Manikchak block. Large chunk of sand was seen to be washed away this afternoon affecting at least 32 families at Domhat and its adjoining villages. The erosion gobbled up some of the houses and damaged partly many more. Fearing fresh erosion, villagers were shifted to safer areas with their belongings. They are in search of a place atop the existing sixth retired embankment for makeshift arrangement. According to the irrigation department officials, a sudden fluctuation in the water level of the Ganges caused the erosion. The Ganges has moved more than 150 metres inward on the eastern side eroding its bank line at the down stream of the anti-erosion work carried out by the Farraka Barrage Project.
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