Jorhat, Aug. 17: A team of experts from Brahmaputra Board will arrive in Majuli on Sunday on a two-day visit to find ways to control erosion in the island.

The experts? visit from New Delhi comes in the wake of the Jorhat district administration?s SOS to Dispur to convince the Brahmaputra Board to depute an expert team immediately to find ways to control erosion. Otherwise, it might lead to a law and order problem, it said.

?Please take up the matter with the Brahmaputra Board to depute an expert team so that erosion is controlled and a serious law and order situation avoided,? Jorhat deputy commissioner J.S. Rao said in a letter to the chief secretary.

On August 1, nearly 500 AASU activists demonstrated at Kamalabari chariali and 100 TMPK (a Mising organisation) members gheraoed the SDO civil office in Majuli demanding that the Brahmaputra Board take steps to control erosion. The demonstrators were pacified with the assurance that the matter would be taken up with the government to send a team to suggest erosion-control measures.

The Brahmaputra Board has already been instructed by the government to take up projects to protect Majuli, one of the world?s largest river islands. The projects are worth Rs 83 crore. Till date, only 10 per cent work on the first phase has been completed.