Chief minister Mamata Banerjee went hammer and tongs at the authorities of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) and thoses of Farakka Barrage for not dredging the portions of the rivers under their control which leads to flooding of parts of the state. She was replying to Congress legislator of Harishchandrapur, Malda, Mustaq Alam, who sought the chief minister’s intervention about the flooding of a part of his constituency.“I am aware that the constituency being referred to gets flooded as DVC and Farakka barrage authorities do not conduct dredging operations,” the chief minister said. I have been there in 2017 during the floods, she said
Incidentally, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar conducted aerial survey of the flood affected portion of Bihar during this period, state irrigation minister, Subhendu Adhikari earlier said. But the chief minister went by road to visit the flood-affected areas, he added.