Chief 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 be the celebration’s state unit chief, mentioned that enormous chunks of fertile lands have been misplaced to the Ganga, which flows by way of the 2 minority-dominated districts, rendering lakhs of individuals homeless and making them “neo-refugees”.
“They turn out to be landless and lose their livelihood. Typically, poverty results in a rise in crimes. It creates neo-refugees with many social issues,” 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.
“Throughout the UPA regime, a big fund was sanctioned for the above problem. I request you to kindly launch satisfactory funds to verify the land erosion and shield the life and livelihood of the affected folks,” he mentioned.
Chowdhury represents Berhampore Lok Sabha constituency in Murshidabad district. Ganga flows by way of Malda earlier than getting into Murshidabad, the place it splits into Bhagirathi that flows south by way of West Bengal and Padma which flows east into Bangladesh.
