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Teestamuk-Bahadurabad rly ferry

Siltation hampers services

From Our Correspondent
GAIBANDHA, Dec 26: Railway ferry services between Teestamuk- Bahadurabad ghats have been seriously affected due to siltation causing frequent disruption of the Rati link with northern districts.
Innumerable small and large shoals have emerged at different points of Brahmaputra basin as the deposition of sand and sediment have been taking place round the year. In lean period, water level at different locations along the channel felt by six feet causing immense trouble to the movement of atlcast ax feet draft ferry boats.
According .to sources, widespread erosion of river is the main reason of siltation. During rainy season, eroded sand and sediment arc deposited on the bed of river channel.
At present, the main stream of the river Brahmaputra has
been divided at Kalasona Char some eight kilometre away from Teestamuk ghat. About 70 per cent of the main stream run along the eastern tributary and remaining 30 per cent water flowing through western tributary where Teestamuk Ghat is situated.
This season, the authority declared the eastern stream abandoned as the entering point has become silted up.
All the ferry boats now ply through down ward channel and it takes about three to four hours to reach Teestamuk ghat front Bahadurabad ghat.
As a result, the connecting trains on both the sides cannot run in time causing trouble to the passengers.
Earlier, it needed only 45 minutes time to cross the dis, tance between Teestamuk and Bahadurabad ghats. But due to rapid siltation ft takes more than three hours to reach the
destination.
During the last fortnight, several cargo and ferry boats run around at different points and detained for hours together. As a result, Rall communication remained disrupted for long time.
Experts opined that dredging of silted channel may ensure smooth running of ferry services which ultimately Improve the Railway communication with the northern districts.
Meanwhile, the authority suspended the railway passenger ferry services between Sirajgang and JagannathganJ ghats due to channel trouble in the Jamuna caused by emergence of shoals.
The Railway authority has stopped through booking of passengers, parcel and luggage traffic via these two ghats with Immediate effect, the press release added.