EROSION DUE TO BRAHMAPUTRA
A scheme prepared
by State Government of Assam entitled ‘Protection Rohmaria area
from the erosion of Brahmaputra at upstream of Dibrugarh town’
with an estimated cost of Rs. 404.72 crore was sent to Central
Water Commission (CWC) for examination. The scheme has been examined
by CWC and comments sent to the State Government in October, 2002
for compliance.
In this reagrd, a
Team of Technical experts led by the Union Minister of State for
Water Resources visited Rohmaria area in April, 2002 and recommended
to take pu 1st phase of the scheme, ‘Avulsion of Brahmaputra
at Dholla Hathighuli’ which has been approved by the Government
of India at an estimated cost of Rs. 10.47 crore. The scheme is
being executed by Brahmaputra Board for which more than 80% of
work has been completed. Ministry of Water Resources has released
Rs. 7.5 crore for the above work during 2002-03. Further, course
of action including the taking up of the scheme prepared by Government
of Assam would be chalked out after findings of the model studies
by CWPRS, Pune for the whole reach from Hathighuli to Dibrugarh
town as well as the effect of the scheme at Hathighuli.
This information
was given by the Union Minister of State for Water Resources,
Smt. Bijoya Chakravarty in a written reply to question from Shri
M. K. Subba in the Lok Sabha today.
