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In a recent letter to PM Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee termed the decision to begin talks for the renewal of the treaty "unilateral"...
The BJP-led Central government on Monday refuted Mamata Banerjee's claim that West Bengal wasn't consulted before India and Bangladesh announced talks for the renewal of the 1996 Ganga Water Treaty.o)..
In April, the joint secretary (works) in the irrigation and waterways department of the West Bengal government conveyed the state's total demand for the next 30 years from the stretch downstream of the Farakka Barrage, PTI reported, citing sources..
The Centre, on July 24 last year, sought a nominee of the West Bengal government in the panel formed for carrying out an "Internal Review of the India-Bangladesh Treaty of 1996 on Sharing of the Ganga/Ganges Waters at Farakka, the agency quoted sources as saying..
"False claims spread by the West Bengal Government that they were not consulted on the Internal Review of the India-Bangladesh Treaty of 1996 on Sharing of the Ganga/Ganges Waters at Farakka," the government sources said on Monday. . Per the agency, Mamata Banerjee, at a meeting with the chairman of municipalities and municipal corporations in Howrah, accused the BJP of renewing the Farakka Treaty without any consideration of the livelihoods of the people of Bengal..
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