Assam Erosion

A police station was seen sinking into a river in one of the many scenes of devastation in Assam caused by the worst floods in years. A big chunk of the two-storey building submerged after the erosion of Brahmaputra river banks.

Assam's Water Resources Minister Pijush Hazarika today said that the state is focused on bringing a permanent solution to the erosion issue.

The Brahmaputra river has turned 51-year-old Prafulla Saharia into a refugee. In 2007, it eroded his village Malhu, his home and 70 bighas of farm land. Since then, erosion forced him to move home thrice. The daily wage labourer now fears village Lengeribori, where is now staying, will be gobbled up by the swollen Brahmaputra any day.

India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday signed a $60 million loan agreement to reduce floods and the riverbank erosion in Assam, the Finance Ministry said.

The World Bank would draft a five-year plan to tackle the flood and erosion problem of Assam, its country head Junaid Kamal Ahmed said today.

Ajit Phukhan is not sure whether he will benefit from the Centre's plan to tackle floods that cause large-scale damage in Assam annually. The 47-year-old farmer from Rohmoria, a village in Assam's flood prone Dibrugarh district, has lost his home to the Brahmaputra river, which has expanded massively due to erosion and floods in the village. "Earli...

Morigaon, Assam: Once a prosperous farmer, 55-year-old Prafulla Saharia from Assam’s Lengeribori village, 130 km from Guwahati, is left with no land he can call his own. The flood in the state, which has affected over 1,000 villages and killed 27 people, has inundated the two bigha land he owned. A cycle of floods and erosion has forced him to c...

To deal with annual flooding and erosion problem in Assam, the state government has decided to start dredging of the Brahmaputra river, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said today.

As the waters recede from parts of flood-hit Assam, the possibility of a return to their villages does not exist for some people. The very land on which their homes, villages and fields stood has been washed away. Every year, Assam loses about 8,000 hectares of land to erosion.

What started as a simple tree planting exercise to prevent soil erosion in his village in 1979, has now become a massive green cover of over 1300 acres in Assam. Jaydev Payeng started planting trees in 1979, and has single handedly planted most of the trees in the Molai forest, nearly 350 kilometres away from Guwahati.

Ravaged by floods every year, Assam has now decided to constitute a Flood and Erosion Protection Authority to strengthen the existing embankments and build new ones along the course of river Brahmaputra.

The rising water of the mighty Brahmaputra river today displaced 94 families in Majuli as heavy erosion washed away over half-a-km stretch.

A police station was seen sinking into a river in one of the many scenes of devastation in Assam caused by the worst floods in years. A big chunk of the two-storey building submerged after the erosion of Brahmaputra river banks.

Assam's Water Resources Minister Pijush Hazarika today said that the state is focused on bringing a permanent solution to the erosion issue.

The Brahmaputra river has turned 51-year-old Prafulla Saharia into a refugee. In 2007, it eroded his village Malhu, his home and 70 bighas of farm land. Since then, erosion forced him to move home thrice. The daily wage labourer now fears village Lengeribori, where is now staying, will be gobbled up by the swollen Brahmaputra any day.

India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday signed a $60 million loan agreement to reduce floods and the riverbank erosion in Assam, the Finance Ministry said.

The World Bank would draft a five-year plan to tackle the flood and erosion problem of Assam, its country head Junaid Kamal Ahmed said today.

Ajit Phukhan is not sure whether he will benefit from the Centre's plan to tackle floods that cause large-scale damage in Assam annually. The 47-year-old farmer from Rohmoria, a village in Assam's flood prone Dibrugarh district, has lost his home to the Brahmaputra river, which has expanded massively due to erosion and floods in the village. "Earli...

Morigaon, Assam: Once a prosperous farmer, 55-year-old Prafulla Saharia from Assam’s Lengeribori village, 130 km from Guwahati, is left with no land he can call his own. The flood in the state, which has affected over 1,000 villages and killed 27 people, has inundated the two bigha land he owned. A cycle of floods and erosion has forced him to c...

To deal with annual flooding and erosion problem in Assam, the state government has decided to start dredging of the Brahmaputra river, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said today.

As the waters recede from parts of flood-hit Assam, the possibility of a return to their villages does not exist for some people. The very land on which their homes, villages and fields stood has been washed away. Every year, Assam loses about 8,000 hectares of land to erosion.

What started as a simple tree planting exercise to prevent soil erosion in his village in 1979, has now become a massive green cover of over 1300 acres in Assam. Jaydev Payeng started planting trees in 1979, and has single handedly planted most of the trees in the Molai forest, nearly 350 kilometres away from Guwahati.

Ravaged by floods every year, Assam has now decided to constitute a Flood and Erosion Protection Authority to strengthen the existing embankments and build new ones along the course of river Brahmaputra.

The rising water of the mighty Brahmaputra river today displaced 94 families in Majuli as heavy erosion washed away over half-a-km stretch.