Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Acharya Damodar Shastri & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 17/12/2021. Grievance in the application is against failure of the state authorities in preventing discharge of untreated sewage and waste water/effluents from Vrindavan and Kosi towns in river …
Manisha Jha and Sandeep Dikshit HANDS THAT SPEAK: Flood-affected people reach out for food packets distributed by a relief agency at Raghunathpur in Bihar's Madhepura district on Friday. Rescue workers have taken over 8 lakh people to safety, but tens of thousands are still believed to be trapped. PURNIA: The …
Building a barrage and an embankment to tame the turbulent Kosi was an unimaginative response to the flood problem by the Bihar Government, observes flood expert Dinesh Kumar Mishra. Mishra, who is in Delhi to release his book, Trapped between the Devil and Deep Waters, explains how technological
We have, over the last few days, been inundated with news about destruction being wrought by the Koshi River in Nepal and Bihar. The international electronic media has highlighted the plight of millions of flood affected people throughout this sub-region. Our domestic electronic media has also telecast reports of Teesta, …
NEW DELHI With Bihar still grappling with the ravages of the Kosi floods, the rural development ministry has chipped in with a massive additional allocation of Rs 1,600 crores for the relief and rehabilitation work in the state. The amount is over and above the grant of Rs 1,000 crores …
The overflowing Kosi had, as of end-August, wreaked destruction on more than three million people living in north and east Bihar. A field visit reports on the misery of the affected, haphazard rescue efforts and criminal exploitation of the uprooted. The immediate task is to improve relief operations and then …
The breaching of embankments in the upstream areas of the Kosi river, in Kusaha village in Nepal, has resulted in yet another round of floods in north Bihar, in the districts of Supaul, Saharsa, Araria, Madhepura, Katihar and Purnia. The disaster this time is much larger than usual. More than …
Minister for Foreign Affairs Upendra Yadav Friday said that India should take the whole responsibility of devastation caused by the Koshi River inundation and its aftermath. Talking to journalists at Biratnagar airport today, Minister Yadav, who went to Sunsari district to observe the flood-hit areas, said that disaster occurred due …
Minister for Physical Planning & Works Bijay Kumar Gachhadar said Friday that the spurs damaged by Saptakoshi floods will be restored before the end of the Nepali Calendar - meaning another 7 months - and that repair works are a top priority. "The repair work on the Koshi embankment has …
Sadanand Menon / New Delhi September 05, 2008, 0:14 IST The jacketing or embanking of the river systems in north Bihar must go down as among the most ill-thought out schemes in Independent India. I am talking about the so-called
BJP appeals to people to donate generously for the victims, constitutes disaster fund AWAY FROM DELUGE: A family from flood-hit Madhepura district of Bihar arrives at New Delhi railway station on Tuesday to begin a new life in the Capital. NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to …
BY RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI Water expert D.K. Mishra, who has been studying the Kosi river from 1984, blames the Department of Water Resources (DWR) of the Bihar government for the devastating floods which have displaced more than two million people. Mr Mishra, who has written eight books on Bihar
By B G Verghese The Kosi crisis should bond India and Nepal as it underlines a deeper truth, namely, a geo-physical relationship. A catastrophe long feared occurred on August 18. The wayward Kosi burst through its eastern embankment in Nepal at Kushaha, by-passing the Bhimnagar barrage constructed at the international …
SAHARSA DISTRICT, India: Indian authorities rushed doctors and medical equipment to flood-devastated northern India on Monday to ward off outbreaks of disease among the hundreds of thousands of victims crowding relief camps, officials said. Nearly half of the 1.2 million people who were left homeless when the Kosi River burst …
Nikhilesh Jha As Bihar is undone by disaster, it is time to commit to long-delayed water management projects It was gracious of the PM to declare Kosi floods a
Nikhilesh Jha As Bihar is undone by disaster, it is time to commit to long-delayed water management projects It was gracious of the PM to declare Kosi floods a
New Delhi,Sept. 1: As millions remain marooned, a high-level team headed by Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar will visit Bihar on Tuesday to oversee rescue and relief operations in the flood-affected areas. Increasing the number of its flood relief columns from 21 to 37 in Madhepura, Araria and Supaul districts, the …
Dipak Gyawali, former Minister for Water Resources, heads Nepal Water Conservation Foundation and is hydropower expert. Q: Why did the Koshi breach its embankment? Who was responsible for the repair work-- India or Nepal? DipakG: It is important to step back a bit to realize that this catastrophe happened because …
