Dhaka, Sept. 29 -- The International Farakka Committee on Monday urged the government of Bangladesh to raise alarm over the issue of repeated floods and drought in the Teesta basin in Bangladesh due to control of the river's flow in India.

As many as four successive waves of flash flood have devastated the Teesta basin in Bangladesh this rainy season destroying standing crops and eroding crop fields and homesteads of thousands of families in Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram, Nilphamari and Gaibandha districts.

The same river is rendered dry during the lean season every year when all its water is diverted from Gazal Doba Barrage in West Bengal, India.

Leaders of the International Farakka Committee (IFC) New York and IFC Bangladesh in a jo...