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“International help needed to control flood”

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Sunday that international cooperation was necessary to control flood, which wreaks havoc on large areas of the State every year, as far as the technical and practical aspects of the problem are concerned.

“International cooperation is the need of the hour to control flood if we consider the technical and practical aspects of the problem causing devastation every year,” Mr. Kumar said while addressing a seminar on ‘Floods in Bihar: problem and its long-standing solution’ organised by a voluntary organisation Bihar Jan Vikas Manch.

He expressed confidence that suggestions offered by experts participating in the seminar would come in handy to seek international cooperation, help from the Centre and use of limited resources of the State.

Saying that it was impossible to have a permanent solution to the natural calamity like floods anywhere, he pointed out that his government was working on short-term, medium-term and long-term measures to minimise the problem.

The Chief Minister was happy that the UN had expressed concern over the flood devastation the State faced this year and urged the leaders of political parties in Nepal to work for the construction of multi-purpose high-dams over rivers originating there to provide relief to Bihar. -- PTI

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