Now India has opened 109 gates of Farakka

India has opened 109 gates of Farakka Barrage amid the ongoing severe floods in Bangladesh. These gates were opened on Monday (August 26). As a result, 11 lakh cusecs of water will enter Bangladesh in one day. Due to the opening of the dam, there is a risk of flooding in Murshidabad of West Bengal and Bangladesh.

By announcing this decision due to floods in India's Bihar and Jharkhand, India claimed that Bangladesh was being informed about the flood situation and landslides in advance.

On Monday, the barrage authorities informed that the water pressure has come due to floods in two neighboring states. But it is a matter of relief that no hills have descended from Nepal yet. In Farakka barrage area, the gate has to be forced to open as the water is flowing 77.34 meters above the water level. In that case, the amount of water in the feeder canal has also been increased.

General Manager of Farakka Barrage R. Desh Pande said, Farakka Barrage authorities are always on alert. Every moment is being monitored. As the water pressure built up in a very short period of time, all the 109 gates were not opened, creating a huge pressure on the barrage. This could have caused great damage. For now, 40,000 cusecs of water has been released in the feeder canal and 11 lakh cusecs in the downstream.