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Joint plan on flood mgmt
KATHMANDU, MAY 19 -
Nepal and India have agreed to prepare a five-year joint master plan to fight the flood havoc by sharing real time information and preparedness.
The decision was taken during a meeting of the Third Joint Committee on Inundation and Flood Management that concluded here Wednesday.
Both sides have prepared a draft copy of such an action plan, which will be endorsed by the mechanism’s next meeting after six months, said a official who attended the two-day meet.
The earlier action plan to tame recurrent floods terminated in 2009. “We need a new action plan to cope with the recurrent flood menace. Both sides have agreed to share real time information on the flood and also exchange data,” the official said.
Senior officials from Nepal’s Department of Water Induced Disaster Prevention and those of India’s Ganga Flood Control Commission took part in the meeting.
The meeting also took stock of the progress on embankments constructed across Bagmati, Kamala, and Lal Bakaiya rivers. The Nepali side requested the Indian team to provide the design for the pond at Mahali Sagar that lies 92.76 metres above sea level.
Posted on: 2010-05-20 07:49
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