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A broken down school in Givha, Saharsa district, Bihar, destroyed in the floods after the Kusaha breached in 2008
Posted on 29 Mar, 2010 12:18 PMWhen the foundation stone for the Kosi embankment was laid on January 14, 1955, near Nirmali in Saharsa district in Bihar, euphoric people shouted, Aadhi roti khayenge, Kosi bandh banayenge (we will eat only half a chapati but we will surely build the embankment), writes the prolific engineer and activist Dinesh Mishra in his book, “ Trapped! Between the Devil and the Deep Waters.” No one really paid any attention to the protests and the fears of the people who would live with these embankments and what would happen to their lives.
Organising safe drinking water through community participation in flood-affected areas of Bihar - Case studies from the work of the Megh Pyne Abhiyan network
Posted on 22 Mar, 2010 02:08 AM
This set of case studies (in hindi), details the work of Megh Pyne Abhiyan and their network partners - Gramyasheel and Samta, in organising safe drinking water in participation with the local village communities, in the flood affected West Champaran, Supaul and Khagaria districts of Bihar.
State Government of Bihar is inviting comments from the public, on the Bihar State Water Policy Draft (2009)
Posted on 11 Mar, 2010 05:06 AMIn the context of the guidelines of the revised National Water Policy (2002) which require the states to prepare a comprehensive state-level water policy, and also the need to pay special attention towards the construction of new irrigation projects, along with water management, land management, food management, floods management, ecological balance etc, in the context of the various new developments and problems being faced by the state of Bihar over the last decade or so, the Water Resources Department of the State Government of Bihar has prepared a draft State Water Policy (2009) and is inviting comments from the general public.
Kosi Tragedy should be inquired by CBI
Posted on 22 Jan, 2010 02:05 PMPMO FORWARDS PETITION ON KOSI TRAGEDY TO HOME MINISTRY FOR APPROPRIATE ACTION
Prof.Suraj Yadav, Assistant Professor in Delhi University reports
Kosi breach due to Bihar government's apathy: PAG
Posted on 18 Jan, 2010 05:22 PMPatna, Jan 15 (PTI) The Principal Accountant General (PAG) of Bihar has indicted the state government for the breach in river Kosi embankment in 2008 that rendered lakhs of people homeless and claimed several lives.
Rs 52 lakh sanctioned for Kosi flood hit area disappears: Cheques go missing in Bihar
Posted on 18 Jan, 2010 03:41 PMA fraud in Kosi flood relief distribution has landed a government official in trouble in Bihar's Supaul district.
As many as 286 cheques allegedly went missing from the office of the block development officer (BDO) of Chhatapur in the district.
Inviting women researchers, journalists and activists
Posted on 28 Dec, 2009 04:00 PMLike majority of our rivers, Kosi too is a goddess - the daughter of Lord Shiva. Nicknamed `the sorrow of Bihar' by the male-dominated engineer-contractor -politician lobby, the river has been searching for its identity ever since. Ironically, most of what has been seen and written on the hydrological engineering imposed on the river has been by `men' only.
State of fisheries in the Gangetic basin
Posted on 10 Dec, 2009 03:51 PMInland fisheries form an integral part of the vast gangetic basin.
Accessing safe drinking water during floods in North Bihar - Case study from the work of Megh Pyne Abhiyan
Posted on 19 Nov, 2009 03:20 PMThis case study published in Yojana documents Megh Pyne Abhiyan's work in organising access to safe drinking water for rural communities during the 2006 and 2007 floods in North Bihar. As a result of the Abhiyan's work, approximately 13000 and 36000 people accepted and accessed rainwater as a safe drinking water during the North Bihar floods of 2006 and 2007 respectively. Using rain water for drinking led to significant improvement in health indicators and flood-related deaths and sickness, as well as reduction in health expenditure.
Rapid geohydrological appraisal of Purainee and Orlaha villages,Bihar - Drinking water management and alternative sources
Posted on 19 Nov, 2009 02:40 PMThis report by ACWADAM based on a rapid hydro-geological appraisal of 2 villages, in Supaul distict in flood-prone North Bihar, gives a good understanding of local conditions as well generates a lot of useful data, that can help in planning groundwater management interventions in a village. Such information is crucial especially for regions such as North Bihar, where current data about the local conditions are literally absent.