Flood in terai region

FLOOD

Most of the district of Nepal are affected by flood , around 70 people were died , 50 people misplaced 34 thousands houses are under water. Because of , heavy rain since 3 days raining in Nepal had done huge destruction. For protection, i would like to request to my viewers, please help us.Some friends of mine the other day posted pictures showing the rampaging floods in Birtamod, the main market of Jhapa. Flood water has drowned all the roads and streets besides inundating the ground floors of almost all the buildings.

The water of the Aduwa River was flowing over a section of the East-West Highway, bringing vehicular movement to a complete halt. The small rivulet, Aduwa, that flows down from the western part of the city has inundated the settlements below the East-West Highway.

The locals were shown crossing the flooded roads by rolling up their trousers to their knees as the water level in the entire city is at least three feet high. In some open spaces, the floods were as expansive as the big rivers, as if the pictures were those of rivers, not of the booming town of eastern Terai. The play grounds of the local schools and colleges were submerged by the floodwaters.

Indeed, my friends tried their best to take the best picture of the flood in their city with their mobile phones and uploaded them on facebook. All the locals were worried by the rising water level around their homes, and are now waiting for the floodwater to recede.

Not only Birtamod, other towns and many villages of this district have also been inundated badly, in which one man was killed and two others were swept away. The security personnel rescued a few children who had climbed up the trees to save themselves from the floods. Many areas in Bhadrapur, Kumarkhod, Surunga, Gauradaha and Damak have also been inundated.

The Kankai, the largest river of Jhapa, has inundated many settlements in the southern part of the district while the situation in neighboring Morang district is no different. Likewise, the residents living near the Koshi River in Sunsari and Saptari districts are living under constant fear with the rising level of water in the Koshi and other rivers. Gobargada, a VDC in Saptari, has already been cut off from other villages by the floods.

Of course, inundation is common in the Terai during the monsoon rains. When there is heavy rain, most of the areas go under water, and when there is no rain in the monsoon, the farmers cannot transplant paddy. Hence rain becomes both a boon and bane for the people of the Terai. The rivers and streams, which remain without water during the entire dry season, are blamed for causing inundation while the city areas get flooded due to lack of a proper drainage system. But this time, the eastern Terai received such heavy rainfall that no drainage system could cope with it.

There are a few people who claim that excessive exploitation of natural sources like sand and boulders from the Chure region has caused the floods in the Terai. This, however, may not be the only reason. Again there is no Chure hill in Jhapa, yet the district was hit worst by the floods this year.

There were also a few news reports which blamed the Chure Conservation Program for the floods. According to them, sedimentation on the riverbeds resulted due to the ban on extracting sand from the rivers, and that caused the floods. Yes, the water holding capacity of the Koshi Barrage has decreased due to sedimentation, but such claims do not hold water regarding other rivers.

Little has been done to prevent damages from the floods over the years. The problem of inundation could be reduced to a great extent simply by building embankments on either side of all streams and rivulets causing destruction in the rainy season. By building embankments on these rivers, we can save a big area of ​​arable land in the Terai from becoming barren.