NEW DELHI/DHAKA: The Indian governmentt on Thursday strongly denied claims in Dhaka that flooding of districts on the japanese borders of Bangladesh had been brought on by the opening of Dumbur dam upstream of the Gumti river in Tripura, saying that floods on cross-border rivers is a shared drawback on each side. Indian govt sources additionally warned the interim govt towards any official backing of “misplaced” narratives.
The warning got here within the wake of allegations by one of many advisers to the interim govt, Mohammad Nahid Islam, that India’s “non-cooperation” was the rationale for the flooding.”With none prior warning and with out giving us time for preparation, the dam was opened. By this India confirmed an inhuman method and is demonstrating non-cooperation with Bangladesh,” Islam stated after a gathering of the advisory council with chief adviser Muhammad Yunus.
Amid cross-border acrimony, there have been rumours in Dhaka that Yunus had summoned Indian envoy Pranay Verma. Sources in Delhi, nonetheless, stated that the request by Verma for a name was lodged a number of days in the past and earlier than the occasions associated to the floods.
Nahid, one of many coordinators of the protests towards ousted PM Sheikh Hasina, who’s supervising data and broadcasting affairs, hoped that India will come out from this “anti-Bangladesh coverage”.
“Any official backing of such misplaced narratives is unhelpful to bilateral ties and the usage of the phrase ‘summon’ is clearly an try at disinformation,” stated a supply on situation of anonymity.
In an announcement, the international ministry stated this drawback requires shut mutual cooperation, including India continues to offer real-time flood information to Bangladesh as per a bilateral protocol.
With the 2 international locations sharing 54 widespread cross-border rivers, river water cooperation is a vital a part of their bilateral engagement. Seeking to allay issues in Bangladesh about India’s alleged function within the floods, which adopted the political disaster within the nation, Indian govt stated it remained dedicated to resolving points and mutual issues in water sources and river water administration via bilateral consultations and technical discussions.
India identified that the catchment areas of the Gumti river that flows via India and Bangladesh have witnessed the heaviest rains of this 12 months over the previous few days and the flood within the neighbouring nation is primarily as a consequence of waters from these giant catchments downstream of the dam.
“Dumbur dam is positioned fairly removed from the border – over 120km upstream of Bangladesh. It’s a low-height (about 30m) dam that generates energy that feeds right into a grid and from which Bangladesh additionally attracts 40MW energy from Tripura. Alongside the about 120km river course, we’ve three water degree remark websites at Amarpur, Sonamura and Sonamura 2,” stated MEA.
“Heavy rainfall has been persevering with since Aug 21 in entire of Tripura and adjoining districts of Bangladesh. Within the occasion of heavy influx, automated releases have been noticed,” it added, whereas recalling that the Amarpur station is in a part of a bilateral protocol underneath which India is transmitting real-time flood information to Bangladesh.
“Knowledge exhibiting a rising development has been equipped to Bangladesh as much as 3pm on Aug 21, 2024. At 6pm, as a consequence of flooding, there was an influence outage, resulting in issues of communication. Nonetheless, we’ve tried to take care of communication via different means created for pressing transmission of information,” stated govt.
Heavy rainfalls have prompted heavy flooding, the worst since 1956, in Tripura with greater than 80% of the state capital, Agartala, waterlogged. The scenario worsened within the metropolis after it obtained 233mm rain on Wednesday that would not be pumped out because the Haora river was overflowing.
Eight districts of Bangladesh have been flooded as a consequence of heavy rains and onrush of water from the upstream, stated the ministry of catastrophe administration and aid on Wednesday. The eight districts are Sunamganj, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Feni, Chattogram, Noakhali, Comilla and Khagrachhari. A minimum of 1,796,248 folks have been affected, the ministry stated on Thursday.
(With inputs from AKM Moinuddin in Dhaka)
The warning got here within the wake of allegations by one of many advisers to the interim govt, Mohammad Nahid Islam, that India’s “non-cooperation” was the rationale for the flooding.”With none prior warning and with out giving us time for preparation, the dam was opened. By this India confirmed an inhuman method and is demonstrating non-cooperation with Bangladesh,” Islam stated after a gathering of the advisory council with chief adviser Muhammad Yunus.
Amid cross-border acrimony, there have been rumours in Dhaka that Yunus had summoned Indian envoy Pranay Verma. Sources in Delhi, nonetheless, stated that the request by Verma for a name was lodged a number of days in the past and earlier than the occasions associated to the floods.
Nahid, one of many coordinators of the protests towards ousted PM Sheikh Hasina, who’s supervising data and broadcasting affairs, hoped that India will come out from this “anti-Bangladesh coverage”.
“Any official backing of such misplaced narratives is unhelpful to bilateral ties and the usage of the phrase ‘summon’ is clearly an try at disinformation,” stated a supply on situation of anonymity.
In an announcement, the international ministry stated this drawback requires shut mutual cooperation, including India continues to offer real-time flood information to Bangladesh as per a bilateral protocol.
With the 2 international locations sharing 54 widespread cross-border rivers, river water cooperation is a vital a part of their bilateral engagement. Seeking to allay issues in Bangladesh about India’s alleged function within the floods, which adopted the political disaster within the nation, Indian govt stated it remained dedicated to resolving points and mutual issues in water sources and river water administration via bilateral consultations and technical discussions.
India identified that the catchment areas of the Gumti river that flows via India and Bangladesh have witnessed the heaviest rains of this 12 months over the previous few days and the flood within the neighbouring nation is primarily as a consequence of waters from these giant catchments downstream of the dam.
“Dumbur dam is positioned fairly removed from the border – over 120km upstream of Bangladesh. It’s a low-height (about 30m) dam that generates energy that feeds right into a grid and from which Bangladesh additionally attracts 40MW energy from Tripura. Alongside the about 120km river course, we’ve three water degree remark websites at Amarpur, Sonamura and Sonamura 2,” stated MEA.
“Heavy rainfall has been persevering with since Aug 21 in entire of Tripura and adjoining districts of Bangladesh. Within the occasion of heavy influx, automated releases have been noticed,” it added, whereas recalling that the Amarpur station is in a part of a bilateral protocol underneath which India is transmitting real-time flood information to Bangladesh.
“Knowledge exhibiting a rising development has been equipped to Bangladesh as much as 3pm on Aug 21, 2024. At 6pm, as a consequence of flooding, there was an influence outage, resulting in issues of communication. Nonetheless, we’ve tried to take care of communication via different means created for pressing transmission of information,” stated govt.
Heavy rainfalls have prompted heavy flooding, the worst since 1956, in Tripura with greater than 80% of the state capital, Agartala, waterlogged. The scenario worsened within the metropolis after it obtained 233mm rain on Wednesday that would not be pumped out because the Haora river was overflowing.
Eight districts of Bangladesh have been flooded as a consequence of heavy rains and onrush of water from the upstream, stated the ministry of catastrophe administration and aid on Wednesday. The eight districts are Sunamganj, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Feni, Chattogram, Noakhali, Comilla and Khagrachhari. A minimum of 1,796,248 folks have been affected, the ministry stated on Thursday.
(With inputs from AKM Moinuddin in Dhaka)
