Dhaka worried over declining Teesta water

Dhaka has expressed concern about the declining flow in the trans-boundary river Teesta.
It voiced its concern at Bangladesh-India Joint Rivers Commission's technical committee meeting in the capital yesterday.
“We've raised the Teesta issue and have been told that it was under consideration at an appropriate level of the Indian government,” Mir Sazzad Hossain, member of the JRC Bangladesh, told The Daily Star.
The technical committee discussed some regular issues including the water level of the Padma (the Ganges in India) and erosion of the Bangladesh-India bordering rivers. The committee will sit for a follow-up meeting in Kolkata tomorrow.
“We'll sit for two more meetings in Kolkata to discuss some other issues,” mentioned Sazzad, who will lead a five-member Bangladesh delegation.
The team will visit the Farakka Barrage to measure the water level there under the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, 1996.
A three-member Indian delegation led by Saumitra Kumar Halder, general manager of Farakka Barrage, arrived in Dhaka on March 5. The team visited the Hardinge Bridge point of the Padma river to measure the water level there.