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JS team claims 3 Tipai successes

Rashidul Hasan
The parliamentary delegation after its return from India yesterday said their visit to the Tipaimukh dam had yielded three achievements.
Referring to the first achievement the team revealed that India assured them the dam was meant for a hydroelectric plant, not an irrigation project.
About the second one, Abdur Razzaq told reporters at the Jatiya Sangsad media centre that India would not build any barrage or structures for withdrawal of water from the downstream of Tipaimukh dam site or in Fulertal area of Manipur in India.
Citing the third success Razzaq said. “India told us about the amount of water to be discharged from Barak river in the dry season and how much will flow into the Surma and Kusiara of Bangladesh, once the dam is built."
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The water flow into the river Barak in Bangladesh will increase in the dry season and vice versa in the rainy season with less possibility of flood, he said.
"No one has ever got such categorical assurance in the past from India. Indian officials assured us that the pro-^sed Tipaimukh dam was meant for hydroelectricity generation," Razzaq, the ruling Awami League lawmaker said.
“India also assured that they would not set up any irrigation project there. Moreover, the dam will reduce the risk of flood," he said.
Razzaq, who led a 10-member team to India on July 29 to collect facts and documents on the dam. were talking to reporters after a meeting of parliamentary standing committee on water resources ministry at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
"This is for the first time in the last 40 years that India had agreed to provide us with such information on the dam," said the AL lawmaker, adding that Indian authorities had given them a booklet containing fac > and information on the project.
Prime Minister Sheikh i isina has also directed that an expert panel should be formed to verify facts and information they have collected from India.
He also said the government would fix its next course of action on the basis of the report of the expert team.
The delegation had submitted a voluminous report to Hasina on their experience and visit to the dam site.
At the invitation of Indian government, the parliamentary delegation went to India for a seven-day visit to collect information on the dam.
Quoting an Indian water expert, Razzaq said the dam would help control floods in Bangladesh and increase water flow in Kushiara and Surma rivers in dry season.
Asked whether his Indian
counterparts will keep their promise, Razzaq said, “Why won't we trust them? They helped us a lot during our Liberation War and on many other occasions."