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Title: Need to draw a comprehensive plan for all round development of North Bengal.
(RAIGANJ): North Bengal districts are once again facing the untold miseries of flood. Time and again, I have been urging the Planning Commission, Water Resources Ministry and the Government of West Bengal to give top priority with highest plan provision for flood management, master plan of the North Bengal districts specially of Malda, Dakshin Dinajpur, Uttar Dinajpur and Tista embankment areas of Tarai region. The Tista Canal project appears to be an incomplete mission in spite of escalated cost. I urgently draw the attention of the hon. Prime Minister, who is the Chairman of the Planning Commission to have the meeting of North Bengal MPs and the State Government representatives to draw a comprehensive plan for the Tenth Plan allocation, to take care of Nagar, Tista, Torsha, Kaljani, Kulik, Mahananda, Fulhar, Sui, Tangan, Atreyee, Punar Bhava, Srimati rivers. The villages of Bilaimari GP of Ratua Block have been destroyed due to erosion of Fulhar River.