Bengal

XKolkata: Water release from the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) continued on Saturday morning, with 70,000 cusecs discharged. Over the past two days (Thursday and Friday), the DVC had released a total of 1,50,000 cusecs. “The Centre, along with the DVC, has a deliberate ploy to unleash disaster on us in order to inflict pain on millions when they are still busy in the pujas. Our department has already alerted the district administration right up to the Panchayat ground level in the backdrop of such water release. Control rooms have been made operational and we are closely monitoring the situation,” said state Irrigation and Waterways minister Manas Bhunia. The minister alleged that several communications, right from the Chief Minister to the department top brass, has been made w

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