After breaking an embankment panel upstream in Nepal, the river KOSI ( Bihars tragedy) has chosen the path it abandoned 200-years ago. This sudden change has led to floods, affecting the life of a billion and their source of income.
The relief operations have started and even funds have begun to flow in, but the extent of damage is hard to imagine. There has been no full stop to the destruction by this monster.
Seen from a satellite, the area looks like a conical fan. Created by hundreds of years of shifting, it is the largest such cone in the world, covering an area of over 15,000 square km. The cone is made up of various courses of Kosi and the land in between, which gets submerged during floods.
The biggest challenge is that this is just the beginning of the problem, for one, the changed course of the river has swallowed millions of hectares of land and which are hardly going to resurface even after the water recedes.
These areas are technically in the river bed, thereby completely uprooting those living in these areas—not to talk about the loss of agriculture land, houses, livestock, ponds, wells and above all their lives and their dreams.
Three, the devastation of this magnitude is unheard in modern civilisation, with the entire Kosi civilisation on the verge of eclipse
SOURCES : ( TOI website, i government )
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