Statesman News Service
MALDA, 14 JAN: A team of GFCC (Ganga Flood Control Commission) led by its director Mr. RK Sinha, today visited sites of ongoing anti-erosion work on the bank of the Mahananda in the district along the India-Bangladesh border.
The irrigation and waterways department in Malda was carrying out anti-erosion work along the border to save the Indian land and had erected a barbed wire fence on the bank of the river in Old Malda and Habibpur.
A total fund of Rs.35 crore was allotted for this project. The executive engineer Mr. S Misra said: “Ninety percent of the work is almost complete”.
According to him, the team will clear other proposed projects in Malda, North and South Dinajpur districts , sanctioning more funds for other anti-erosion works in the vulnerable sites on various rivers along the India-Bangladesh border. The Indo-Bangladesh joint technical committee had approved the proposed projects earlier for execution. The irrigation department, as implementing agency, was waiting for the clearance of the fund allotments from the Central authorities.
Today, the GFCC team held a meeting with the state officials of the irrigation and waterways department for sanctioning more funds for the proposed projects.
The executive engineer of irrigation department in Malda, Mr. S Misra said that they would float another tender for another proposed project for anti erosion work in Malda next week for Bamongola area. The border security forces are facing problem to save their existing barbed wire fence along the border in Bamongola area due to erosion of the river Punarbhaba.
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