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> More than a lakh hit by Bagmati breach
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> Silt or embankments to blame for deluge?
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> PATNA: The riparian imbroglio in North Bihar which began on Saturday
> morning with the Bagmati breaching its embankment at Tilak Tajpur, affecting
> more than one lakh people, has prompted some pertinent questions to be asked
> of the Nitish Kumar Government.
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> As of today, the water levels continue to abate. According to latest
> reports, the breach is almost plugged with about 20 metres remaining. But
> raging issues remain, for Saturday’s discharge was a mere 700 cusecs of
> water.
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> The issue at the heart of the matter is whether dams and embankments are
> the solution to end North Bihar’s sorrow? Or is the unwitting villager
> sitting on a powder keg euphemistically manifesting itself as a
> “strengthened” embankment?
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> Speaking to The Hindu, Barh Mukti Abhiyan (Freedom From Floods Campaign)
> convenor Dinesh Kumar Mishra informs that ever since its completion in 1978
> the Bagmati embankment has been breached at least 50 times.
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> “It was breached earlier in 2007. Though officials put the number at a
> conservative 20, the embankment has been breached at least 50 times, with
> the river causing gaps in 16 points in 1993,” says Mr. Mishra, who has been
> working in the Ganga and Brahmaputra river basins in Bihar since 1992.
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> He said the basic duty of a river is to assimilate water in its catchments,
> but the Bagmati being a very fertile river, it brings along with it a large
> proportion of silt and sediment.
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> The problem starts when this silt, which is confined within the
> embankments, starts raising the height of the riverbed. This in turns causes
> the breach.
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> According to Mr. Mishra, the other insidious problem was the gradual
> spreading of the Bagmati riverbed eastwards towards the
> Muzzafarpur-Sitamarhi road. “The river itself is too shallow; it is the
> riverbed that is aggravated thus causing the damage. It is like converting
> cats into tigers,” says he.
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> Similar concerns were aired by the Chief Minister while talking to media
> persons on Monday. He said while the Bagmati itself was subdued, it was “the
> problem of draining out the excess floodwater that led to the breach”. The
> Chief Minister has accordingly sent out officials from the State Irrigation
> Department to rectify the drainage problem apart from constituting a
> high-power committee to probe the quality of the embankments.
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> “Materials used in building the embankments are usually sand walls and
> other locally available stuff, which are not very cohesive at all. As a
> result, water seeps through them,” says Mr. Mishra. This reflects glaring
> loopholes in the embankment work, which was undertaken at a cost of Rs. 792
> crores.
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> While NDRF relief teams are carrying on with distribution of relief
> material, the fate of people near the embankments hangs in balance. While
> more than 20,000 people have taken to open roads, many more are afraid of
> returning to their homes fearing a recurrence of events.
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> “People who chose to live inside the embankments are incessantly mauled by
> the river, while those outside live in continual dread of being swept away,”
> says Mr. Mishra. He says the main problem lies in rooting out the silt.
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