RIVER EROSION
The responsibility
of planning, funding, executing and operating the schemes for
flood control including erosion caused by rivers primarily rests
with the concerned State Government. The assistance rendered by
the Central Government is technical, catalytic and promotional
in nature.
However, Government
of India has proposed a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, namely, ‘Critical
anti-erosion works in coastal and other than Ganga Basin States’
including Orissa with a central share of Rs. 30 crore which interalia
includes Rs. 10 crore for anti-river erosion works. A scheme to
be identified by the Government of Orissa would be included in
the above Centrally Sponsored Scheme for which the matter has
been taken up with the State Government.
This information
was given by the Union Minister of State for Water Resources,
Smt. Bijoya Chakravarty in a written reply to question from Shri
K. P. Singh Deo in the Lok Sabha today.
