Bengal floods: Mamata Banerjee pens to PM Modi seeks urgent action

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over floods in the state. Reiterating her call to severe ties with Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), she stated that DVC released about 5 lakh cusec of water, triggering floods in South Bengal districts.

In the letter to PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee urged the Centre to immediately release central funds to mitigate the widespread



devastation caused by the floods.

"The state is now facing the biggest floods in Lower Damodar and adjoining areas after 2009. l earnestly request that you give this matter serious consideration and direct the concerned ministries to address these issues as top priority, including the sanction and release of substantial central funds to undertake extensive flood management works in the interest of people, who suffer the most," she wrote.