Congress chief urges PM to deal with Bengal river financial institution erosion as nationwide catastrophe, launch funds

Leader of the Congress within the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deal with large-scale river financial institution erosion in Malda and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal as a nationwide catastrophe and launch satisfactory funds for mitigation.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, the senior Congress chief, who can also be the social gathering’s state unit chief, mentioned that giant chunks of fertile lands have been misplaced to the Ganga, which flows via the 2 minority-dominated districts, rendering lakhs of individuals homeless and making them “neo-refugees”.

“They become landless and lose their livelihood. Sometimes, poverty leads to an increase in crimes. It creates neo-refugees with many social problems,” the letter learn.
Citing an instance of the issues confronted by the erosion-affected folks, Chowdhury mentioned a colony of such folks from Malda has come up in Mumbai’s Byculla space, the place they’re branded as Bangladeshi infiltrators as they’ve additionally misplaced their paperwork to the erosion.

“During the UPA regime, a large fund was sanctioned for the above issue. I request you to kindly release adequate funds to check the land erosion and protect the life and livelihood of the affected people,” he mentioned.
Chowdhury represents Berhampore Lok Sabha constituency in Murshidabad district. Ganga flows via Malda earlier than getting into Murshidabad, the place it splits into Bhagirathi that flows south via West Bengal and Padma which flows east into Bangladesh.