Raise alarm over successive floods, drought in Teesta Basin: Farakka Committee  | News

DHAKA, Sept 28, 2025 (BSS)- The International Farakka Committee on Mondayurged the government of Bangladesh to raise alarm over the issue of repeatedfloods and drought in the country's Teesta Basin due to control of theriver's flow in India. As many as four successive waves of flash flood have devastated the Teestabasin in Bangladesh this rainy season destroying standing crops and erodingcrop fields and homesteads of thousands of families in Lalmonirhat, Rangpur,Kurigram, Nilphamari, and Gaibandha districts. The same river is rendered dry during the lean season every year when all itswater is diverted from Gazal Doba Barrage in West Bengal, India. Leaders of the International Farakka Committee (IFC) New York, and IFCBangladesh, in a joint statement on Monday, said Bangladesh cannot...