The Columbia University. New York. Is organising a seminar on October 10 to discuss the adverse Impact of the Farakka Barrage on the Southwestern region of Bangladesh .

A western diplomatic source told UNB yesterday that holding of the seminar Itself demonstrated the growing global concern on the rapid environmental degradation In Bangladesh caused by Farakka Barrage and the concomitant withdrawal of the Ganges water In upper reaches in India.

Top professional experts of International standing on hydrology. geomorphology and environment will participate In the seminar focusing on the current process of desertification in Bangladesh and how southwestern region Is being rendered uninhabitable ecologically and environmentally due to remorseless withdrawals up-

A team of experts from Bangladesh Is likely to attend the seminar mainly to monitor International concern on environmental hazards being posed to Bangladesh by the unilateral withdrawal of the Ganges water by India.