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WB flood: CM Mamata Banerjee calls all-party meeting

| | Aug 06, 2015, at 05:33 am
Kolkata, Aug 5 (IBNS): Accepting the demand of all opposition parties, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday called for an all-party meeting to discuss the present flood situation in the state.
The meeting will be held on Saturday at the state's main administrative building Nabanna in Kolkata.
 
WB Education Minister Partha Chatterjee told IBNS: "To discuss the present flood situation, West Bengal government has called for an all-party meeting which will be held at 4 pm. on Saturday (Aug 8) at Nabanna. We have sent invitations to all opposition parties which have representatives in WB Legislative Assembly."
 
Meanwhile, the death toll due to the flood reached 85 on Wednesday, reports said.
 
One government official told IBNS, "Situation is improving slowly. Government has set up 2546 relief camps and nearly 667 medical camps."
 
According to the reports, nearly 63 lakh people of 235 blocks, 53 municipal bodies, two municipal corporations and 781 gram panchayats covering 16414 villages were affected and many houses as well as crops of over an area of 8,20,435 hectares have been damaged in the flood.
 
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha) 
 
 

 

 

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