The Centre has constituted an expert committee of four members to study the silt in the river. The Centre will send a team to Bihar to study silt in river the river. In a letter addressed to Bihar government, it said that the team has been instructed to submit its report within 10 days.
Member of Ganga Flood Control commission A .K. Sinha has been made Chairman of the committee. Other members are Chief Engineer of Central Water Commission S.K.Sahu, Prof. of IIT, A.K. Gosain and members of National Disaster Management Authority Dr. Rajnish Ranjan.
During meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had requested him to send an expert team to study silt in Ganga which caused devastating prevailing flood in the state. Mr. Kumar also said the centre should frame National Silt Policy to sort out various problems related to rivers throughout the state.