Representatives of the Bihar Government on Friday said that the state would have “no objection” if the Centre undertook the task of plugging the breach. The Centre is unsure if Bihar wants to execute the task or if it wants to hand the responsibility to the Centre.
The Bihar Government had undertaken the Kosi Project and has been managing it since the 1960s. It was only in the early 1990s that the state Government started asking for funds every year to carry out repairs in the embankments that fell in Nepal’s territory.
After the meeting with the principal secretary to the PM on Friday, the Water resources Ministry was asked to clarify the situation at the earliest.
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