India has opened all the gates of Farakka, 11 lakh cusecs of water will enter Bangladesh daily

Due to torrential downpours and continuous rains, 12 districts of Bangladesh are experiencing severe floods. Besides, floods are also going on in India's Tripura, Bihar and Jharkhand. Due to this, 109 gates of Farakka Dam have been opened. Due to the opening of the dam, there is a danger of flooding in Bangladesh, including Murshidabad in West Bengal

The gates were opened on Monday (August 26). In this, 11 lakh cusecs of water will enter Bangladesh in a day. India has claimed that information about the flood situation and landslides is being given to Bangladesh in advance.

On Monday, the dam authorities said that there is water pressure due to floods in two neighboring states. But it is a matter of relief that no hills have descended from Nepal yet. As the water in Farakka Dam area is flowing 77.34 meters above the danger level, the gate has to be opened. In that case, the amount of water in the feeder canal has also been increased.

Farakka Barrage General Manager Ar Desh Pandey said that Farakka Barrage authorities are always on alert. Every moment is being monitored. Due to the way the water pressure has built up in a very short period of time, all the 109 gates were not opened, causing great pressure on the barrage. This could have caused great damage. For now, 40,000 cusecs of water has been released in the feeder canal and 11 lakh cusecs in the downstream.

Meanwhile, the eastern part of Bangladesh has been hit by flash floods from torrential rains and uphill landslides. Millions of people have been displaced by the floods. At least 23 people lost their lives in the flood.

Earlier, this sudden flood occurred due to the opening of the Dambur hydroelectric project in the Indian state of Tripura. But the country's government is saying otherwise.

India's Ministry of External Affairs has claimed that the catchment area of the Gomti River, which flows between India and Bangladesh, has received the highest rainfall of the year for the past few days. Flooding in Bangladesh is mainly caused by water from this large catchment downstream of the dam.