23/07/2014

 

Walia Commission to be tabled in the current session: CM

 


Patna,(BiharTimes): Chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi announced on Tuesday that the state government would table the Walia Commission report on Kosi flood of 2008 in the on-going Monsoon session of the state Assembly.

The chief minister intervened following a wordy duel between the leader of opposition in the state Assembly, Nand Kishore Yadav, and water resources minister, Vijay Chaudhary.

The BJP leader wanted the report to be tabled in the House in the current session as it was submitted to the state government five months back.

On the other hand the minister said it was a lengthy report which had to be first approved by the state cabinet before it is tabled in the House.

He, however, told reporters that the state government was not shying away from tabling the report along with an Action Taken Report on the tragedy.

The one-man commission of Justice Rajesh Walia was set up in September 2008 to probe the cause of an embankment breach in the Kosi river near Kusaha in Nepal.

Thousands of people and cattle were washed away by the devastation, which was described as ‘parlay’ by the then chief minister, Nitish Kumar.


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