Ghatal plan: 9-member group heads to Delhi

The Ghatal master plan, which was initially chalked out by Dr Bhuniya when he was the irrigation and waterways minister in Miss Banerjee’s first government, is a cluster of projects that include the dredging and widening of riverbeds, strengthening of embankments, widening of confluences of at least 10 large rivers such as the Kansabati, and at least 40 channels and subchannels passing through East and West Midnapore.