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 …
How and why did the rivers curse Bihar? It all began with a group of young politicians in the 1950s. To them goes the credit for pushing the idea of building embankments. This was done in the name of trying to tame the rivers of the state. In the 200 …
The birth of chaos Measures to control floods have backfired in Bihar. Flood related damages and flood prone areas have only increased since independence, and so has corruption. The two are closely related I n many ways the state of Bihar is unique. It is resource rich, but the people …
september 5, 1984. Ganga Prasad Yadav, a farmer living in Teghara village in Saharsa district in north Bihar, will not forget the date in a hurry. "It had been raining incessantly for over a week. The water level of the Kosi river had been rising continuously. Then the eastern Kosi …
The most devastating feature of Kosi, Bihar's sorrow, has been its ruthless course shifts. In the last 200 years, it has moved westwards by as much as 110 km averaging some 0.5 km every year. Up to the beginning of the 12th century BC, it was flowing through the eastern …
NORTH BIHAR. The people here have resigned themselves to their fate. Theirs' is a waterworld, trapped almost perpetually amidst the swelling waters of Kosi, the "sorrow of Bihar". Though floods are not rare here, this year has been the worst. And the people, with their food and drinking water supplies …
