Flood in Cooch Behar

 

It is the fate or destiny of Cooch Behar district as well as entire Dooars region of north Bengal to suffer from yearly floods and round-the-year river erosion. Flood is merely an issue to the political parties and it is evident from the fact that though the country got its Independence no permanent measures were taken yet to save the people and their properties from the annual calamity. No prolonged movement was ever organised to create pressure on the authorities to solve the problem.

 

Flood and river erosion are catchy topics of the media during the monsoon. Once the monsoon passes out no one takes any interest about these ordinary issues. Flood and river erosion bring opportunity to some contractors and their men in the government departments concerned to earn a lot of extra money every year. There are very few who questions why the embankments have a habit to wash out at the first few days of downpour every year. Why costly sandbags supplied during any breach of embankment go to the same river from where it was collected free of cost? And why promise to repair any damaged embankment never kept? There are such many questions but no one to give the right answer. Here we are presenting some flood pictures of Cooch Behar.