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 …
BY RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI The Indian and Nepal governments have given the green signal to the construction of two mega dam projects to help rein in the tumultuous Kosi river. These two dams, called the Saptakosi and Sumkosi projects, will together provide 4,000 MW of electricity and will be …
Ramaswamy R. Iyer There is in Nepal a deep ambivalence about India, which many in India tend to misinterpret as anti-Indianism. India-Nepal relations have been badly mismanaged on both sides. The time has come to make a break with the past and explore new beginnings. In his article in the …
The water in his ground floor house has already covered his chairs and dining table. So Vikash Ranjan Sinha, a grocery shop owner in Madhepura, moved up to the first floor with his octogenarian parents, wife and three children, including an infant. They have been there for the past week- …
IN the tsunami of December 2004, people heard a strange, deep rumbling before columns of the sea came in. In 2008, the people of north Bihar had no such warning. The river was silent and swift, rising from a deceptive two feet to nearly eight feet in a matter of …
THE Kosi is often called Bihar's "river of sorrow" as it has a* I propensity to create displacement and despair for millions I regularly. But what if the misery and devastation was more a result of human folly rather than the river's fury? The floods this year have inundated 16 …
- How to turn the river of sorrow into a river of hope N.K. Singh The author is a Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Every new report about the devastation caused by the river Kosi only heightens our anxiety
Centre and state trade blame over floods The swollen Kosi river breached its banks in upstream Nepal and brought grief to north Bihar. By government count, 90 people died in the floods, but unofficial reports put the toll at more than 1,000. More than three lakh people were marooned. Even …
Did the Kosi really change its course this time? Ask the Nepali citizens near Kushaha - where the river breached the embankment - and they would say 'yes', as the Kosi barrage near Hanumannagar (Nepal) was not opened this year for the natural (read man-made) outflow of the swelling river. …
The fishes are gasping, not out of the water this time. Rather in the water itself! The womb of the mythological Virgin River (popularly known as Kosi Maiya) is proving to a graveyard for children this time. It is not at all a flood, rather it is a catastrophe or …
BY AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI As it dithers to take any action against irrigation minister Vijendra Prasad Yadav, the NDA government in Bihar headed by Nitish Kumar has appointed a judicial commission to probe the breach in Kosi embankment, which resulted in unprecedented floods in the state. Former chief justice …
DOWN TO EARTH Sunita Narain / New Delhi September 12, 2008, 2:47 IST We were so greedy for land, we killed the very channels that prevented rivers from flooding. This year, for once, the devastating floods of Bihar, where Kosi has swollen to expand across the state seem to have …
Gargi Parsai Saptakosi, Sunkosi will help to tame Kosi Prachanda will arrive in India on Sunday India will request Nepal for logistics and security NEW DELHI: With a sense of urgency, India will take up with Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) the issue of construction of the Saptakosi …
AUGUST 18,2008. In the wee hours of the day, the river Kosi breaches the embankments in Kusaha, Nepal, leaving in its wake an awesome trail of death and destruction downstream in Bihar's northern plains. Panic-stricken, people run helter skelter ooking for high ground, railway tracks, trees, whatever, to escape the …
BY RASHME SEHGAL SUPAUL, NORTHEAST BIHAR Behli Camp, located northeast of Supaul, is the last outpost of dry land after which the turbulent waters of the raging Kosi river take over. It is from here that the Army and private entrepreneurs are ferrying boats to bring in marooned villagers who …
Atul Thakur | TNN Saharsa: Kripanand Thakur of Forbesganj is a very worried man. His mother, 75-year-old Maya Devi, is still stuck in Pratapganj block of Supaul. Although the distance between Forbesganj and Pratapganj is only 35 km, Kripanand took 24 hours in traversing Katihar, Khagaria and Saharsa to reach …
NEW DELHI With water level of the rampaging Kosi river receding after wreaking havoc in five northeast districts of Bihar, the overall flood situation in the state improved even as rescue and evacuation operations were stopped. Bihar officials said as the flood waters had started to recede, many people sheltered …
