The International Farakka Committee has named a 'people's commission' and its steering committee for sustainable management of the Himalayan rivers.
Leaders of the New York-based IFC at a press conference at the National Press Club on Friday said that the 24-member commission and its 14-member steering committee was composed of representatives of Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan.
They hoped that during Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh's upcoming visit to Bangladesh, an understanding would be reached on resolution of all water-related issues and India would declare scrapping of the proposed Tipaimukh dam project upstream of the Barak river.
IFC chairman Atiqur Rahman Yousuf, read out the written statement at the press conference attended by columnist Sadek Khan, former Jahangirnagar University vice-chancellor Jasimuddin Ahmed, Dhaka University professor Asif Nazrul, Syed Irfanul Bari of the Bangladesh chapter of IFC and daily New Nation editor Mostafa Kamal Majumder, among others.
Source : New Age
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