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The Centre connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025) rejected West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's allegation of "discrimination" implicit flood absorption and stream cleaning, asserting that India is already moving intimately with Bhutan connected trans-border stream issues and has released much than ₹1,290 crore to the State nether flood absorption programmes.
A time aft torrential rainfall wreaked havoc successful ample parts of North Bengal, leaving 30 dormant and respective missing crossed the region, Ms. Banerjee connected Monday (October 6, 2025) accused the Centre of ignoring her telephone to acceptable up an Indo-Bhutan River Commission, informing that "North Bengal would proceed to carnivore the consequences" of recurrent floods without it.
Ms. Banerjee besides claimed that "the Centre provides nary funds for flood absorption and has adjacent halted the Ganga Action Plan for cleaning the river".
In response, the Ministry of Jal Shakti said successful a station connected X that India and Bhutan already person organization mechanisms specified arsenic the Joint Group of Experts (JGE), Joint Technical Team (JTT), and Joint Experts Team (JET) to code issues of stream erosion, silt deposition, and flash floods affecting North Bengal.
Officials from the West Bengal authorities are members of these associated bodies, it said.
The Ministry added that astatine the caller 11th JGE gathering held successful Paro, Bhutan, 8 further rivers entering West Bengal, including Hashimara Jhora, Jogikhola, Rokia, Dhawla Jhora, Gabur Basra, Gabur Jyoti, Pana, and Raidak (I & II), were taken up for a associated survey connected erosion and sedimentation.
The West Bengal authorities has been asked to behaviour elaborate studies connected these rivers and contiguous them astatine the adjacent JTT gathering aboriginal this year, the Ministry said.
The Centre besides said it is moving to fortify Bhutan's hydrological reflection web to amended flood forecasting connected rivers that travel into India.
It clarified that "no backing connection related to flood absorption projects is pending" with the Central authorities and that ₹1,290 crore has already been released to the State nether the Flood Management and Border Areas Programme (FMBAP).
Countering Ms. Banerjee's assertion that the Ganga Action Plan has been halted, the Ministry said 62 projects worthy ₹5,648.52 crore person been undertaken successful West Bengal nether the Ganga Action Plan and the Namami Gange programme. Of these, 31 are sewerage infrastructure projects and 30 related to ghats and crematoria.
A large stream rejuvenation inaugural - the Tolly Nullah task successful Kolkata - has besides been sanctioned nether the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Ministry of Jal Shakti said.
The Ministry reiterated that the Centre remains "actively engaged" with Bhutan and the West Bengal authorities connected stream absorption and flood power issues.
