Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The Ministry of Water Resources has confirmed that it has submitted a proposal for North Eastern Integrated Flood and Riverbank Erosion Management Project, Assam to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for financial support. The ADB has cleared the Project Preparatory Technical Assistance and the consultant has submitted draft feasibility report, …
BHUBANESWAR: The step-motherly treatment meted out to Orissa by the Centre became evident from the paltry flood assistance released from the National Calamity Contigency Fund (NCCF).Bihar, Assam and Orissa witnessed floods during the recent past. While Bihar has got Rs 1,000 crore from the NCCF, Assam received Rs 300 crore. …
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 …
Chorgalia is a small village at the foot of the rather less prominent Shivaliks in the Kumaon Himalayas, close to the city of Haldwani. A somnolent settlement at the mouth of a pass where the Nandhor river bounces off the hills into the open countryside of 'Bhabar', it was the …
In this case study, the costs and benefits under potential climate change of different flood risk reduction approaches in northern India were analyzed and compared. In addition, the utility, applicability and limitations of cost-benefit analysis for supporting disaster risk reduction decision-making under a changing climate were investigated. Beginning with a …
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 …
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: …
JORHAT, Sept 23: State Water Resources Minister Prithibi Majhi has made a case for the application of modern, foolproof techniques to tackle the floods and erosion problem in the State. Interacting with reporters here this evening after his visit to the flood-ravaged Majuli subdivision, Majhi, who succeeded Bharat Chandra Narah …
JAMMU, Sep 22: Speaker Legislative Assembly Tara Chand monday convened a meeting of officers of PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control to review the progress made by them in completion of various ongoing development works in Khour block. Among others, Chief Engineer, Irrigation and Flood Control, V. K. Abrol, Ex.Ens. of …
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 …
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 …
Business Standard / New Delhi September 12, 2008, 0:06 IST Can India learn some lessons from China in disaster management? The answer may not be wholly in the affirmative because the track record of that country in this field is not entirely impeccable. But one of the recent Chinese moves …
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 …
Overall flood situation in the State has improved a little today with the improvement in the weather condition. However, the water levels of the rivers are receding at a very slow rate, said sources in the Water Resources Department (WRD). The National Highway 31, which is under the floodwaters of …
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 …
