C T Online Desk: India has agreed to consider Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus’ proposal to set up a new mechanism for managing common rivers and sharing flood data with Bangladesh.
Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, in a weekly briefing on Friday said, “There is an established mechanism for sharing flood-related data with Bangladesh. It has been set up long ago and it’s working well.”
Earlier, High Commissioner of India Pranay Verma met Prof Yunus who suggested setting up a new mechanism to share flood data, like other bilateral security mechanisms.
During the recent flood both in Tripura and Bangladesh, Jaiswal said, the Indian side provided all relevant data and the government issued two press releases regarding the matter. “Now If Bangladesh feels the present mechanism is to be upgraded then both sides can discuss it.”
Mentioning that a false narrative on flood has been propagated to mislead the people, the spokesperson said it was duly clarified and the Indian high commissioner also informed the chief adviser that because of heavy rain on the Indian side, water was flowing downstream and necessary information has been passed on regarding the issue.
