Bengal Floods Man-Made Disaster, Says Mamata Banerjee

Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rushed to flood-hit areas in Hooghly and other parts of South Bengal today, which have been massively affected by the release of water from dams upstream in Jharkhand. Accusing the Damodar Valley Corporation of being responsible for the situation, she said, “The Central government’s DVC and Jharkhand’s Tenughat and Panchet, they have saved their own state and released water into Bengal”.mLakhs of people have been affected by floods, she said. “Look at the flow and speed of the water. Everything will go underwater at any time.”