Green Features / Towards Sustainable Solutions (Kosi Floods)

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NORTH BIHAR RIVERS NEETI SAMVAD

The floods have been recurrent calamity in Bihar. Unfortunately, in past few years, particularly in the year 2004, 2006 and 2007 and 2008 the intensity and ferocity of floods have further multiplied. In fact the floods of 2008 occuring as a result of breaking of Eastern embankments of Kosi, for the first time upstream of the Birpur barrage in Nepal, is the biggest disaster and calamity that has fallen Read more

Tabahi Ki Gawahi (Witness to the Destruction)

We have been active since the very first days in the unfortunate months of August 2008 when the eastern embankment was breached for the first time upstream if the Viripur barrage in last fifty years and 4 million people were suddenly affected by the floods. It has been our endeavor to raise the voices of the people from below and hold government accountable for its actions. Read more

Tabahi- Ki Gawahi – Bihar Floods

Dr. Onkar Mittal

We have been actively involved on the ground, since the very first days, in the unfortunate months of August 2008 when the Eastern Embankment of Kosi river was breached for the first time, at Kusha, upstream of the Viripur barrage in Nepal, in the last fifty years. Nearly 4 million people, living on the eastern bank of Kosi, from Kusaha to Kursela, some in Nepal, and mostly in the Read more

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