BANKE, APR 24 -
Around 200 families of Matehiya VDC-1, 2 and 3 in the district have
left their homes, fearing that area might be swept away by flood s in the Rapti river during monsoon.
Locals said they were forced to leave their houses as their calls to
build an embankment at Tepari before monsoon have not been heeded.
Last year too, around 200 families left their houses due to flood s that eroded around 1000 bighas of farmland.
Local people accused the government of being apathetic towards their
problem. Durga Prasad Maurya, a local, said he will be left with no
option other than leaving the village dismantling his concrete house if
the government fails to prevent flood
s in the river. Though the People’s Embankment Programme has started
constructing an embankment at Tepari, its work is too slow to complete
the work before monsoon, locals said.
Only a 200 metre section of the 700 metre embankment has been completed
so far in the past two months. “As the monsoon season is just three
months away, the project is unlikely to be completed before the area is
flood
ed,” said Aasharam Maurya, chairman of the Rapti Victim Struggle
Committee in Tepari. Local people have demanded that the construction
works should be completed before monsoon.
Laxmanpur Dam and Kalkalawa Embankment in the Indian side are blamed for flood s in five VDCs, affecting more than 10,000 people, in the area every year.
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