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Bhutan Govt Should Compensate For North Bengal Floods: Mamata

Blaming the Centre for not clearing the dues for crisis management in case of natural calamities like floods, she said her government is shouldering it.

Kolkata: Accusing the Bhutan government of releasing water that caused the recent severe flooding in North Bengal, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday demanded that the neighbouring country pay compensation for the losses incurred.

"For a long time, we had been insisting on the formation of an Indo-Bhutan River Commission with representation from the state government. Because of the water released from Bhutan, North Bengal faced such a scale of disaster. We want the Bhutan government to pay compensation for the losses," she said

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