Summary:
The Prime Minister's office, subsequently, assured all possible support to Bengal to mitigate the situation, accepting that "water discharge from dams" caused the flood situation in certain parts of the state. "Kindly refer to our telephonic conversation today on the grave man-made flood situation in some districts of West Bengal due to unprecedented release of water from the DVC dams at Panchet, Maithon and Tenughat," the Chief Minister's letter read. Banerjee further maintained in her four-page letter: "Recently, there has been a low-pressure formation resulting in high rainfall in West Bengal and Jharkhand. Heavy release from DVC dams has led to man-made floods in Bengal year after year. After 2015, the state faced a critical flood situation in 2017, 2019 and now in 2021.".