Overview
- Nisith Pramanik convened an emergency pre-monsoon meeting at Uttarkanya on Tuesday that brought together district magistrates, the irrigation department, NDRF, BSF, SSB and elected representatives including 13 TMC MLAs.
- Officials agreed to an operational posture that includes setting up control rooms in every district plus a separate NBDD control room to monitor the monsoon and coordinate responses.
- The government has mapped vulnerable riverbank areas and ordered plans to shift residents in risky zones while tasking NDRF and border forces with rescue and support duties.
- Pramanik announced proposals to open talks with the Union government on forming an Indo‑Bhutan River Commission and to explore inter‑state river commissions, but those measures remain at an early consultative stage.
- The push responds to recurring floods driven by heavy inflows from Bhutan, Sikkim and hill catchments and could speed completion of stalled irrigation and erosion-control projects ahead of the coming monsoon.