Burhi Gandak

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding plastic bags dumped in the Budhi Gandak river, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, 07/04/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Devavrat Kumar Sahani Vs State of Bihar dated 07/04/2025. The application was being registered on the basis of a letter petition dated December 27, 2024 sent to the NGT by the applicant, Devavrat Kumar Sahani, Muzaffarpur, …

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding plastic bags dumped in the Budhi Gandak river, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, 07/04/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Devavrat Kumar Sahani Vs State of Bihar dated 07/04/2025. The application was being registered on the basis of a letter petition dated December 27, 2024 sent to the NGT by the applicant, Devavrat Kumar Sahani, Muzaffarpur, …

5 die in flood-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh

A number of people have taken shelter in various relief camps. Rivers Rapti, Ghaghara, Burhi Rapti, Rohini and Quano are in spate and have inundated vast areas in Lakhimpur Kheri, Barabanki, Faizabad and Ballia, Gorakhpur, Siddharthnagar. Five more persons died today in the flood related incidents in Uttar Pradesh, taking …

Floods grim in 7 districts, Ganga & Burhi Gandak still in spate

Patna: The death toll in the floods in the state increased to 72, but the situation slightly eased on Wednesday. Water resources department officials claimed the rivers, except the Ganga and Burhi Gandak, were showing receding trend across the state. State disaster management department said around 69.42 lakh people in …

State to get 900cr for intra-river linking projects

Union water resources minister Uma Bharti on Monday said the Centre has allocated Rs900 crore for the three intra-river linking projects received from Bihar, maintaining that their successful implementation would also serve as a model for other states. Of the sum, Rs500 crore has been released and the remaining Rs400 …

A sustainable engineering disaster

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 …

Witnessing a cycle of misery in Bihar"s flood prone villages

LALITESHWAR PRASAD SINGH In two months the monsoon will arrive. And I am reminded of my visit to East Champaran district of Bihar four months after last year's "exceptionally destructive' floods. As person after person narrated his/her misery to me, it was clear that the government's relief was inadequate and …

Still in troubled waters

At the time of destructive floods, the distress of affected people attracts attention but, unfortunately, as soon as the flood waters recede they are forgotten. A recent visit to several flood-affected villages of Bihar made it very clear that the flood-affected people are still suffering. March 2008

Flood mapping and analysis : A case study of July 2004 flood in Baghmati river basin

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

Why do Gangetic rivers aggrade or degrade?

The rivers draining the Gangetic plains exhibit remarkable geomorphic diversity, and this has consequently characterized the rivers to be dominantly aggradational in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) and degradational in the Western Gangetic Plains. We suggest that steam power and sediment supply are the two main fluvial parameters which govern …

Evaluation of geomorphic control on flood hazard through Geomorphic Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph

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 …

Palaeoliquefaction evidence of prehistoric large/great earthquakes in North Bihar, India

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

INDUNDATED by excuses

the floods have once again ravaged Bihar. Claims made by the government that all precautionary measures were taken, embankment and anti-erosion work completed in time and that the floods would not be allowed to occur

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