Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
SUPAUL: "Kosi mein paeen tadtada ke badhi rahel chhai," Brahmdeo Sardar of Barainya Baltharwa village was heard talking over his mobile set at Kosi bridge on Sunday noon. Hundreds of people from neighbouring villages in 22 panchayats of Supaul have shifted since Saturday evening. On Sunday morning, residents of the …
SUPAUL: Destruction caused by breach in Kosi embankment at Kusaha on August 18, 2008, is still an issue in 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Supaul, which was the worst hit. Candidates are promising speedy implementation of the World Bank-aided reconstruction scheme including houses to the families displaced in the floods …
Around 82 inaccessible, remote villages in Gopalganj, Saharsa, Supaul and Kaimur districts would be energised under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification programme (RGREP) in Bihar, the State Hydel Power Corporation Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Mr A K Pandey said. Talking to PTI, Mr Pandey said around 40 villages of Baikunthpur and other blocks …
More than 70,000 families are facing the wrath of the turbulent Ganga in Bihar's Bhagalpur district. Aerial survey On Sunday afternoon, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who conducted an aerial survey of the areas ravaged by the river, however, told journalists here that “flood waters were receding” and that no major …
With water level rising in rivers including the Kosi, the fear of floods has begun to haunt the people living in north Bihar yet again. "All the rivers are in full spate following heavy rains. Some rivers may cross the red mark late Wednesday or Thursday," officials of the Central …
Victims of the 2008 Kosi flood in Bihar are awaiting compensation. They cannot farm because their land is full of fine silt. Officials in the flood-affected districts say villagers complain because they don’t understand the formalities—they need to furnish a first information report (fir) and death certificate to claim compensation. …
On december 28¤ people from 25 villages of Supaul district in north Bihar forced construction workers making a bundh on the Kosi river to abandon work. The temporary bundh will divert the river to allow the construction of a bridge. People are agitated because the project will impede the river’s …
Even as the Bihar government has declared 26 of its 38 districts as drought-affected, several parts of Darbhanga, Madhubani, Saharsa and Supaul districts have been facing flood, affecting over one lakh people. Over 100 houses have been washed away in Supaul and Saharsa because of Kosi water flooding the fields. …
This report based on a rapid hydro-geological appraisal of 2 villages, in Supaul distict in flood-prone North Bihar, gives a good understanding of local conditions as well generates a lot of useful data, that can help in planning groundwater management interventions in a village. Such information is crucial especially for …
A baffled Bihar is struggling to provide food and shelter to three million people rendered homeless by a flood that swept through five districts. The Down To Earth team travels across the areas inundated by the Kosi in Bihar and Nepal to grasp the impact and concludes that the flood …
Even as he faked calmness, Dr Shakeel-ur Rahman was in turmoil as he tried to save a two-year-old girl suffering from acute diarrhoea. He needed to put her on intravenous therapy but the doctor and his staff could not locate her veins. With time running short, he gave up, moving …
The Kosi, bursting through its embankment at Kusaha in Nepal, has swung 120 km eastwards, changing the lives of thousands of people. IT must have been at least a fortnight since the Kosi breached its embankment in Nepal, changed its course and shifted over 120 kilometres eastwards, rediscovering channels it …
IN the tsunami of December 2004, people heard a strange, deep rumbling before columns of the sea came in. In 2008, the people of north Bihar had no such warning. The river was silent and swift, rising from a deceptive two feet to nearly eight feet in a matter of …
The fishes are gasping, not out of the water this time. Rather in the water itself! The womb of the mythological Virgin River (popularly known as Kosi Maiya) is proving to a graveyard for children this time. It is not at all a flood, rather it is a catastrophe or …
AUGUST 18,2008. In the wee hours of the day, the river Kosi breaches the embankments in Kusaha, Nepal, leaving in its wake an awesome trail of death and destruction downstream in Bihar's northern plains. Panic-stricken, people run helter skelter ooking for high ground, railway tracks, trees, whatever, to escape the …
BY RASHME SEHGAL SUPAUL, NORTHEAST BIHAR Behli Camp, located northeast of Supaul, is the last outpost of dry land after which the turbulent waters of the raging Kosi river take over. It is from here that the Army and private entrepreneurs are ferrying boats to bring in marooned villagers who …
NEW DELHI With water level of the rampaging Kosi river receding after wreaking havoc in five northeast districts of Bihar, the overall flood situation in the state improved even as rescue and evacuation operations were stopped. Bihar officials said as the flood waters had started to recede, many people sheltered …
Anubhuti Vishnoi New Delhi, September 7: Receding floodwaters have prompted the authorities to assess the extent of damage done by the Kosi and the figures trickling in suggests it would be long before Bihar
