Embankment construction begins to save Tulsi settlement in Dhanusha

By Our Correspondent,Dalkebar, Mar. 21: Works to build embankments along various rivers at Tulsi in Mithila Municipality Ward No. 11 have begun to save human settlements and agriculture land from the floods and erosion.

 Embankment construction has already begun in the Kerung, Chepuwa and Lotaha rivers, which caused massive erosion in the rainy season.  

In every rainy reason, the dry rivers flowing through the Chure region to south cause huge damages to agricultural land across Tulsi. 

According to Prem Bahadur Karki, a local, most damages have been done at the Kalikhola settlement. 

 He said that the Kerung River flowing down from the Chure hill had eroded more than seven bighas of arable land in Kalikhola.  

“Many residents have already moved to the safer places after the risk of flood increased in the settlement. Still about 15 families are living there. 

Construction of embankments were necessary as the level of the river had increased to the level of the settlement because of the silt carried by the floods from Chure every year,” Karki said. 

He said that with the construction of the embankments that will save their settlement and fertile land, the locals have become happy. 

The unit office of the President Chure Terai Conservation Committee Janakpurdham has started the embankment construction works in the Kerung, Chepuwa and Lotaha rivers. 

Shiva Kumar Pokharel, the head of the unit office, said that they were preparing to construct an embankment of 90 meters length and two meters height in the Kerung river and 120 meters long in the Chepuwa and Lotaha rivers. 

He mentioned that a dam was built under the Khahare River Control Plan. 

Pokharel claimed that the construction of the dam would stop the flow of water, soil and other substances from the upper area of Chure. 

According to him, the locals will feel some relief from the construction of the embankments, and they will build additional embankments in the riskier areas in the coming days. 

The citizens affected by the erosion look enthusiastic with the start of embankment construction. 

According to Vijaykumar Karki, a resident of Bahunmara in Tulsi, the embankments that were being constructed would stop erosion of the farmland of many farmers and their settlements.