Hydrological survey of Surma starts

A seven-member team of Bangladeshi officials yesterday started a bathymetric survey on a 2km portion of the Kushiyara, which is flowing in India's Assam state before entering Bangladesh again in Sylhet.
The surveyors from the state-run Institute of Water Modelling (IWM) will investigate the hydrological impacts of India's proposed 1,500MW Tipaimukh hydropower dam project, an official, Mir Sajjad Hossain, told The Daily Star.
India's Barak river enters into Bangladesh from Assam state through Amolshid border in Zakiganj upazila of Sylhet and bifurcates into the Surma and the Kushiyara.
The "Hydrological Survey for Tipaimukh Dam" is expected to take a week. After the Kushiyara, the officials will work on a 12km stretch of the Surma, which is flowing along the Indo-Bangla border. The study will cover the Indian sides of the rivers this time. Earlier, parts of the rivers which flow only through Bangladesh were surveyed.