Lok Sabha MP from Arunachal Pradesh Ninong Ering has criticised the Central Water Commission's report on the condition of the Siang river and demanded dredging of its riverbed.
The river witnessed sudden blackening with heavy turbidity last year, and now the water level has risen due to sedimentation and deposition, Ering said in a letter to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday.
"The condition of Siang river is in a sorry state, and yet the CWC data paints a rosy picture to keep real suffering and plight of people in oblivion," the Congress MP from Arunachal East Parliamentary Constituency said.
Ering said large portions of agricultural land have been damaged due to heavy erosion of the Siang river, and the river water has left "many natives homeless and in total chaos."
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