The Centre is currently drafting a “National Action Plan” to deal with issues of climate change and is expected to be released by June this year.

“Adaptation is one area but as a long term strategy we have to mull mitigation strategies that will help the affected areas in the state,” said Sujan Chakraborty, MP from Jadavpur. Before the finalisation of the action plan, I will meet the chairman of the panel in May so that the plan can cater to the affected areas,” said Chakraborty, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Science & Technology and Environment & Forests.

In a recently published report titled “Blue Alert” that was commissioned by the Greenpeace India, the author, Sudhir Chellarajan, a professor of IIT-Chennai, has warned that 12 million people from the state will be displaced by the end of the century if the factors affecting the climate change are not mitigated.

“We are asking the MPs whose constituency fall in the coastal areas to put pressure on the Centre so that it can address the issue of mitigation of climate change along with adaptation. Thus the danger over Sunderbans and the coastal areas of the state can be addressed,” said Maitree Dasgupta, campaigner, Greenpeace India.