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'Climate change, erosion pushing new generations to poverty along Ganga'
2016-06-28 05:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Money Life: Climate change and vicious river bank erosion in the post-Farakka Barrage period have blurred the lines between the rich and the poor and are pushing successive generations to grinding poverty along the lower stretches of the mighty Ganga in West Bengal. The frequent nature of erosion is induced by hydraulic control by the commissioning of the barrage in 1975 and Indo-Bangladesh water sharing treaty of 1977 and 1996, experts say. And the famed weaver's colony (taantis) in Shantipur block of West...
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