The Damodar Valley River Regulation Committee (DVRRC) on Monday lifted the "yellow flood warning" as the release of water was reduced from the dams, following a request by chief minister Mamata Banerjee to her Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren.

Mamata spoke to Soren on Sunday, requesting him to regulate the release of water from Jharkhand's Tenughat dam.

She had told him that discharge of water in large volumes from the state's dams were resulting in a "man-made" flood in Bengal.

"As Tenughat reduced the release of water, the DVC did not need to release water from its dams. So, the DVRCC lifted the yellow flood warning issued on August 3 today. It means the threat of a deterioration of the flood situation was arrested for the time being," said a senior state government official.

If the Tenughat dam on Damodar, controlled by the Jharkhand government, disgorges a large volume of water, DVC authorities are forced to release water from its Maithan and Panchet dams, resulting in a flood in lower catchment areas, particularly Howrah and Hooghly.

A source said that following Mamata's intervention, the Jharkhand government reduced the release of water from Tenughat from Sunday night, prompting the DVC to scale down discharging water from Maithan.

However, a senior irrigation official said Tenughat almost stopped the release of flood water as there was no report of recent heavy or very heavy rainfall in the upper catchment area of Damodar.

"If the upper catchment witnesses heavy or very heavy rainfall within a couple of days, Tenughat would be forced to release water and DVC would follow the same," said the official.

As the DVC reduced its water discharge, there were no reports of fresh inundation from any of the south Bengal districts. The state government is, however, taking care of the pockets in Hooghly, Howrah, and East Burdwan which have already flooded.

"Currently, there is no threat from Damodar, but the river Bhagirathi has been swelling," said a senior official in East Burdwan.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, during her cabinet meeting in the Assembly, purportedly instructed the MLAs of inundated areas to reach their areas immediately and coordinate with the local administration to take care of the people in crisis.

"She said that the threat of flood is not over. All the MLAs of vulnerable areas should immediately reach their constituencies," a minister quoted Mamata as saying.