Leaders of 12 flood-affected villages of Bhalpanthak of Bhavnagar district presented to the District Collector. Leaders of 12 flood-affected villages of Bhalpanthak of Bhavnagar district presented to the district collector.

Leaders of 12 villages in Bhalpanthakam of Bhavnagar district have once again made written and oral representations to the district collector and demanded to rescue the agricultural land and the villages submerged by rain water.

Bhalpanthak in Bhavnagar district has a very large area. Hundreds of years ago, the Gulf of Khambhat used to meander at this place, but over time, due to the receding of the sea and the continuous sedimentation of large rivers, the land of hundreds of areas around the river-sea mouth region became fertile. Villages were gradually populated with agriculture. is cultivated but for the last three years, the government has given more encouragement to industries and sugar industry instead of agriculture, and with the complete stoppage of traditional agriculture, the possibility of thousands of bighas of land being turned into saline again is getting stronger.

Every year during the monsoon, seven rivers in Botad and Bhavnagar and Ahmedabad districts overflow and these rivers meet the Gulf of Khambhat through natural flow, but for the last three years, the government has leased lands to private companies for salting the natural flow of these rivers and these companies have built huge embankments to block the flow of the rivers, and as the flood flow of the rivers flows into the sea instead of the sea, the agriculture of twelve villages is destroyed. When water is released from the dams including Luobhar, these villages turn into bats and the safety of life is threatened, today a delegation of 12 villages led by Congress woman leader Nitaben Rathore came to present to the District Collector, and visited the spot and demanded immediate removal of embankments made for salt.