Statesman News Service
MALDA, Sept. 24: Centre has approved funds worth Rs. 46 crore for anti-erosion work on the bank of the rivers Mahananda and Punarbhaba along India Bangladesh border in Malda, irrigation officials said today.The Central Water Commission (CWC) took the initiative to carry out permanent bank line protection work along the border to save existing barbed wire fencing and border road, which are under threat due to erosion by these rivers.At a meeting of the technical advisory committee (TAC), held in Kolkata today, it was decided that the irrigation officials in the districts would begin work in December this year. Experts of CWC, GFCC (Ganga Flood Control Commission) Port Trust and other top officers of state irrigation and waterways department were also present at the meeting.It may be noted that estimated plans for bank line protection of major rivers along the India Bangladesh border in North and South Dinajpur have been sanctioned. In Malda the irrigation and waterways department would cover eight km stretch along the border in Old Malda and Bamongola blocks. The department had sent the revised plan to the CWC in early September this year.A few years ago authorities took initiative to take up bank line protection work on the Indian side but it was stalled due to objections from Bangladesh authorities over borderline demarcations. A few months ago the CWC was given a green signal by Bangladesh and hence it decided to revamp the project. "We have to undergo some official procedures and formalities to commence the work in December”, the executive engineer, irrigation department in Malda Mr S Misra said over telephone from Kolkata today.
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