Following heavy rain in July and August 2017, the Indian state of West Bengal was affected by severe flooding.

[4] The Land Depression 01 in its precursor low & poor maintenance of dams caused dangerous floods in West Bengal.

The rivers Silabati in West Midnapore, Dwarkeswar in Bankura, Dwaraka and Kuye in Birbhum were flowing above the danger level.

Some parts of the Hooghly and West Midnapore, including Ghatal, Khirpai, Chandrakona went under water since Saturday night.

State government officials said the Subarnarekha river burst its banks after water was released from the Galudi dam in Jharkhand.

In Hooghly district, embankments along the Darakeswar river were washed away and flood water gushed towards Arambagh town.

[12] The floods claimed seven lives so far in the region, while about one lakh (100 thousand) people were affected in the five districts—60,000 of them in Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri alone —and many of them had taken shelter in the relief camps.

Communication between Falakata and Madarihat in Jalpaiguri district remained cut off due to large-scale inundation and a majority of the residents of the two areas had taken shelter in the relief camps.

The Mamata Banerjee government sought help from the armed forces for the first time when eight districts in south Bengal were hit by flood.

The air force pressed into service a helicopter to rescue 39 people who were trapped inside a two-storey house at Pratappur village in the Ghatal sub-division of West Midnapore district.

[13] NDRF on 6 August 2017 team conducted rescue and relief operation at Ghatal, West Medenipur, WB and evacuated three persons They distributed relief material water pouches- 2200Nos, Dry Ration- 16 bags, Milk powder 6 kg, and Gur60 kg.