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Crores Spent, Villages Submerged: The Untold Story of Bihar’s Broken Flood Promises

Leave a Comment / Environment, RESEARCH ARTICLE, SPOTLIGHT / Kritesh Bhagat , Sneha Yadav

The CAG audit and media reports found that hundreds of crores had been spent or marked as ‘completed,’ yet many embankment structures remained incomplete, poorly built, and offered little actual flood protection. Despite frequent claims by Bihar’s leaders that international rivers and inadequate central support are to blame, residents view this as a convenient deflection, […]

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West Bengal Floods and the Women Who Lead: SHGs Building Resilience in the Sundarbans

In the Sundarbans’ socio-economic milieu, where banks rarely reach and formal institutions falter, resilience is not built overnight or left to the government alone. The story of Shitama SHG exemplifies this: ordinary housewives who, armed with a ledger and a loudspeaker, map out lanes of hope and readiness long before a government Jeep or NDRF