Jalpaiguri : The glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) in Bhutan has had little or no effect in Bengal.
The Alipurduar district administration had opened 18 flood shelters in Kumargramduar block on Thursday night and around 10,000 people living along the banks of Sankosh in Kumargram tea estate, Kumargram forest village, Pakriguri and Bholka had taken refuge in the shelters along with a couple of thousand from Assam . Ministry of Jal Shakti had issued a special advisory for Bengal and Assam following a GLOF in Shintaphu Lake, Bhutan. Owing to the flash flood in the upper reaches of Punatsangchu, the water level was likely to rise suddenly in Sankosh in Bengal’s Alipurduar and Assam’s Dhubri and Centre had advised the two state govts to closely monitor the situation and take adequate measures in advance. Bengal forest minister Manoj Oraon, too, had alerted the dwellers of Kumargramduar about the possibility of a flood.