March 23, 2017
Bijoy Chandra Barman asks a Supplementary Question on drinking water problems in north Bengal
FULL TRANSCRIPT
Respected Madam, thank you for allowing me to speak. It is the need of the time that Central Government should come to supplement the utmost effort by our Hon. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to mitigate the problems of tea garden workers and the development of north Bengal, specially the hilly areas.
Madam, a vast area of hilly region of north Bengal has been reeling under acute drinking water scarcity since long time as a result of inaction by the earlier Left Front government and a section of tea garden owners. These areas have large population of tribal people and most of them are poor and work relentlessly to provide the morning tea for the nation. But drinking water shortage and the arsenic contamination in groundwater have made their already strenuous life tougher.
I want to ask whether the government is aware about the fact that a vast hilly area of tea producing belt of north Bengal including my constituency is facing shortage of drinking water and if so then what steps have been taken under this central scheme.
