The Union Government has constituted four member expert committee to study silt in river Ganga in Bihar. The team will be headed by member of Ganga Flood Control commission A .K. Sinha. The committee will submit its report within 10 days. Other members of committee: Chief Engineer of Central Water Commission SK Sahu, Prof. of IIT AK Gosain and National Disaster Management
Authority member Dr. Rajnish Ranjan. Background The committed has been constituted based on outcome of meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Bihar CM had requested PM to send an expert team to study silt in Ganga which caused devastating prevailing flood in the state. Besides, he also had requested Central Government to frame National Silt Policy to sort out various problems related to rivers throughout the state.
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