Both the Koshi and the Bagmati originate in Nepal.
Bagmati Cleaning: 24 metric tons waste
cleared from valley rivers, ring road.
He adds that cost of displacement and poor conceptualisation has made the Bagmati project completely worthless.
The government was
motivating people that just like the Koshi embankment, the Bagmati project would resolve the problem of floods.”.
It largest temple complex in Nepal, it stretches on both sides of Bagmati River which is considered holy by Hindus.
In the Bagmati area too, the people are now sick of all
this and they want to see their river free.
The largest temple complex in Nepal, it stretches on both sides of the Bagmati River which is considered holy by Hindus.
Shatrughan Rai's worst fear
came true five years ago when the Bagmati river flooded his modest hut and
took away all his possessions.
The area spans approximately 12.3 million acres(5
million hectares) and includes Nepal's Bagmati River to the east and India's Yamuna River to the west.
After the floods in 2008, Bihar faced a drought for two years and
again in 2011, nearly 100 villages were flooded by the Bagmati river.
Engineers created the confluence. Since Bagmati is at higher level and Koshi at a lower elevation,
the former should have been merged with the latter,” he says.
Anyway, things are a bit bearable in our area,
but the area right north-west of it where the Bagmati embankment touches the boundary of Nepal,
is fraught with problems.
The embankment that is responsible for causing flooding and displacing hundreds of villages and destroying a vast tract of agricultural land from Sitamarhi,
Darbhanga to Muzaffarpur district is a part of the Bagmati project.