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The National Flood Control Policy in 1954 (following the disastrous floods of 1954 in a large part of the Kosi river basin) planned to control floods through a series of dams, embankments and river training works. The Kosi project was thus conceptualized (based on investigations between 1946 and 1955), in three continuous interlinked stages
According to the media reports, the flood caused by the release of approximately 6.61 lakh cusecs of water from the Birpur Barrage of the Koshi river is one of the most disastrous in the history of floods in Bihar. Local residents said that they had seen this type of large amount of water 56 years ago in the Koshi river. [3]
Every year several areas of Terai are affected due to the flood and blockage of this barrage. This affects mostly the Koshi region of Bihar ( Supaul , Saharsa , Madhepura and Purnia ). The Kosi River is known as the "Sorrow of Bihar" as the annual floods affect about 21,000 km 2 (8,100 sq mi) of fertile agricultural lands thereby disturbing the ...
The Kosi River filled to dangerous levels, while the Bagmati River and Nakkhu rivers caused flooding in Bagmati Province. The Kathmandu Valley received between 240 millimetres (9.4 in) and 322.2 millimetres (12.69 in) between 28 and 29 September, causing flooding in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.
The river spread out widely and flooded towns, villages, and cultivated fields on the densely populated alluvial fan. Recurrent flooding on the lower Kosi contributes largely to India's history of suffering more flood deaths than any other country except Bangladesh, and has earned the Kosi the epithet "The Sorrow of Bihar". [12]
Sapta Koshi River is one of the major tributary branch of the Ganges river system that originates from the Himalaya and meets Ganga at Bihar. Koshi causes floods in Nepal and India every year. A big landmass of Bihar is affected by Koshi flood every year. Therefore Koshi is known as ‘sorrow of Bihar’ [12]
The 1987 Bihar flood, caused by high levels of annual flooding of the Kosi River (nicknamed "the sorrow of Bihar" [1]), was one of the worst floods in Bihar, India, in a decade caused by a landslide that blocked the main route of Bhote Kosi River. This resulted from chunks of earth falling into the river; thus, building a dam approximately 1 km ...
A recent fact-finding report on the Kosi floods of 2008 – prepared by a civilian organization, the Fact Finding Mission on the Kosi, composed of various experts such as Sudhirendar Sharma, Dinesh Kumar Mishra, and Gopal Krishna – highlighted the fact that although India has built over 3000 km of embankments in Bihar over the last few decades, the propensity for flooding has increased by 2. ...