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 …
Enquiries into reasons for Bihar floods shadowed by Centre-state bickering OFFICERS and ministers who failed to maintain the Kosi embankment, leading to floods displacing about three million people, may go scot-free because of the tussle between the Bihar and Union governments. Union Minister of State for Water Resources Jai Prakash …
Victims of the Koshi floods on Tuesday announced to launch protests from next week stating the government was not concerned towards addressing their problems. The flood victims announced to carry out phase-wise protests amidst a press conference in the capital today. They have demanded the government to waive the debts …
Can Bihar avert another Kosi disaster? On September 16, the Special Task Force constituted by the prime minister put a figure on the destruction caused by floods in Bihar
Completion of the Hanuman Nagar barrage on March 31, 1963, was considered a feat. A few months later the first breach in the Kosi embankment happened near Dalwa village in Nepal, a few kilometres from the border with India. Celebrations for the completion of the project were still on when …
On September 16, the Special Task Force constituted by the Indian prime minister put a figure on the destruction caused by floods in Bihar: Rs 25,000 crore. The Bihar government was seeking Rs 9,000 crore for flood relief; the Centre had released Rs 1,000 crore. Chairperson of the task force …
- Nepali Congress (NC) President and outgoing Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on Tuesday accused the government of not being serious over the rehabilitation of the displaced people by the Koshi flood and re-construction of the highways. The NC President said that the NC being the opposition party will always …
The meeting of the Indo-Nepal Joint Committee on Water Resources in Kathmandu agreed to set up an authority to undertake the 6,000-MW Pancheshwar multi- purpose project on the Mahakali river and expedite work on preparation of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) on Saptkosi High Dam on the Kosi.
Not excess water, but neglected embankment caused the flood India has blamed the previous seven breaches on the Kosi embankment on Nepal releasing water from the barrage at Bhimnagar, even though Nepal has no control over the sluice gates. All the earlier breaches had occurred downstream of the barrage. But …
Pregnant women after walking barefoot for tens of kilometres delivered babies without medical help. The babies were given names synonymous with devastation. Dukhni Devi of Sahuria village in Purnia gave birth to a girl at the Banmankhi relief camp in Purnia but feared her husband had been washed away. She …
1963: At eastern embankment at Dalwa in Nepal 1968: At western embankment at Jamalpur 1971: Collapse of Bhatania Approach Bund in Supaul 1980: In the eastern embankment in Saharsa. 1984: In the eastern embankment at Navhatta in Saharsa 1987: In the western embankment at Samani and Ghonghepur in Saharsa 1991: …
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 …
Everybody loves a natural disaster (Editorial) The Kosi floods were a predictable ecological event. But Indian politicians have no time for the science of rivers, writes Jayanta Bandyopadhyay The author is professor at IIM Calcutta. He drafted the chapter on the world
Many people in the country are gripped by the destruction caused by floods in the Kosi river of Bihar, leading to vicious misery and displacement of nearly two-and-half million people there. However, floods are common and intrinsic to the Bihar economy. The Kosi is particularly known for this problem, and …
NEW DELHI: Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh on Wednesday criticised the Bihar government for failing to plug the breach in the Kosi river that caused devastating floods in the State earlier this month. Briefing reporters on the achievements of his Ministry in the past four and half years, …
