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The floods in the Rapti and Daduwa rivers will inundate large parts in both India and Nepal in the rainy season. In fact, India will be more affected by the monsoon floods. In, 2000, India built a marginal embankment at Kalkalwa which changed the whole scenario. The embankment was secured India but Nepal's many parts became floods in prone.
"It is after the construction of the embankment that a large swathe of Nepali land has started to be drowned," said Jagdish Bahadur Singh, a native of Holia. In 1980, India started in the water using the laxmanpur at a barrage. Rapti River for irrigation.
After the construction of the barrage in 1984, India announced to build an embankment at Kalkalwa. However, the construction was halted after the protest by local people. Later, in 2000, a two and half kilometer long embankment was built.
These two infrastructures - Laxmanpur Barrage and Kalkalawa embankment - are constructed by Indian government making local residents living near the Rapti River on the Nepali side of the cross-sea oceans of tears almost every year. Whenever there is an overflow of water in the river, India downs down the Laxmanpur barrage, inundating villages on the border of Nepali side.
This is the reason behind the heavy flood on Friday too. Krishna Bahadur Khadka, officiating Chief District Officer of Banke said, "I made many attempts to open the door of the barrage but failed." Later, I asked the home ministry to take necessary action. "
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