MUZAFFARPUR: Tirhut divisional commissioner Narmadeshwar Lal on Sunday asked officials concerned to keep a close watch on embankments in the region amid rise in water level in several rivers. The Bagmati has virtually created havoc in Aurai, Katra and Gaighat blocks of Muzaffarpur district, posting flood threat to 150 villages. …
Shoumojit Banerjee PATNA: The riparian imbroglio in North Bihar which began on Saturday morning with the Bagmati breaching its embankment at Tilak Tajpur, affecting more than one lakh people, has prompted some pertinent questions to be asked of the Nitish Kumar Government. As of today, the water levels continue to …
ANAND S.T. DAS PATNA While the flood situation in north Bihar eased with water levels in some rivers falling down the danger marks, there were fresh worries on Wednesday from continuous erosions of embankments at several places and a new breach seen in the Bagmati's embankment. Officials said the flood …
ANAND S.T. DAS Aug. 4: Reeling under swirling waters of swollen rivers for three days, large parts of north Bihar found some respite from the floods on Tuesday as water levels in several rivers receded. But authorities are still struggling to address the huge human distress caused by the floods. …
THE large-scale destruction unleashed by the Kosi river last year is still fresh in the minds of the people and, not surprisingly, when the river Bagmati breached its embankment at Runisaidpur in Sitamarhi district on Saturday, it created a scare which many felt would only compound the problems of the …
New Delhi: With breach in the embankment of swollen Bagmati river leaving nearly one lakh people homeless in Sitamarhi district in north Bihar, the Centre on Sunday rushed an additional contingent of its National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)
ANAND S.T. DAS PATNA The flood situation in north Bihar worsened on Sunday with the Bagmati's marauding waters entering fresh areas and the NH-77, connecting Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpur, getting inundated. The number of affected people rose to 1.5 lakh since Saturday's embankment breach. As chief minister Nitish Kumar made an …
Dinesh Kumar Mishra looks back at the history of floods in North Bihar and wonders what this year has in store Had the Kosi river not breached its eastern embankment at Kusaha last year, 2008 would have gone down as a drought year in North Bihar. The rains were scanty …
It stinks, it's dirty and many of Kathmandu's denizens have given up hope that Kathmandu's holy river, the Bagmati, can ever be salvaged. But two organizations want to give it a shot all the same. The High-Powered Committee for the Integrated Development of Bagmati Civilization (HPCIDBC), the government body that …
The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a systematic qualitative analysis of the costs and benefits of constructing embankments in the lower Bagmati River basin, which stretches across the Nepal Tarai and into northern Bihar. This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of both structural flood …
The prominent rivers of Bihar all originating from Nepal and entering into Bihar, are adversely affected sands-play resulting from flood. In Nepal these rivers have very steep slope and acquire scouring velocity. Thus the water flowing down carries a lot of silt and sand. Theses silts are deposited in the …
The Kathmandu reaches of the Bagmati River are widely characterised as severely degraded. This article explores the rhetorical life and death of the concept of a 'Bagmati civilisation': a particular configuration of history, cultural identity and river ecology espoused by a prominent Nepali river restorationist. Following the 2001 imposition of …
This study pertains to analysis of Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) images in mapping the flood inundation and causative factors of flood in the lower reaches of Baghmati river basin for the period July
Flood hazard in a basin depends upon the hydrological response of the upstream basin area. The upstream basin area may produce different amounts of run-off for a given rainfall based on its hydrologic response. The present communication shows the importance of drainage network characteristics in understanding the hydrologic response of …
Flood hazard is one of the most severe problems in the Himalayan river basins. Although floods are essentially hydrological phenomenon, the uneven distribution of floods in the river basin highlights the control of geomorphological and geological factors. A proper understanding of these factors is critical for a successful flood management …
The Indo-Gangetic plains are drained by several fan and interfan rivers fringing the margin of the outer Himalaya. These fan and interfan river systems are distinctly different from each other in terms of hydrology and sediment transport and generate typical alluvial architecture below the plains. The Siwalik sequences stretching all …
The Himalayan arc, 40% of which ruptured in the last two centuries, has witnessed half a dozen large to great earthquakes including the 1833 and 1934 Bihar
Despite an expenditure of billions of rupees on various studies connected with the Baghmati river and Kathmandu valley's development, no concrete plans have emerged for the cleanup of the rivers in the region. Vast sums of money have also been spent on the rivers in Kathmandu valley
The main objective of this High powered Committee is to keep Bagmati River and its tributaries clean by preventing the direct discharge of solid and liquid wastes to the river and to conserve the river system within the Kathmandu.
