Work with Rs 500cr for Ghatal Master Plan started: Irrigation minister
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has allotted Rs 1055 crore for the Ghatal Master Plan.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has allotted Rs 1055 crore for the Ghatal Master Plan.
The state government will implement the Ghatal Master Plan worth Rs 1,500 crore on its own, without any help from the Centre.
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.
