Impact of Kosi River Floods on Migration: A Geographical Analysis

Abstract

            The Kosi river is famous for furious flood. Certainly after the construction of flood protection embankment the impact of flood has confined in the area existing between two flood protection embankment. Areas lying outside the embankment face the problems when excess flood water damages the embankment. Whenever such floods take place people residing in the area face lot of problems. More particularly the labour class people face more problems. They move to relatively better developed areas like Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Western Uttar Pradesh etc. scheduled cast communities belonging to landless labourers and economically hard pressed face more problems than their communities. They become homeless and even face the damage of crops which they grow on land of rich people.