Temporary embankment brings relief to flood-hit Banke village

The family of 81-year-old Amrikan Prasad Dubey of Khalla Jhadgadiya in Rapti Sonari Rural Municipality –7, Banke, has been living along the bank of the Rapti River for more than a century. Once owning 10 bighas of land, Dubey was known in the village as a landlord. When he had enough land, he even donated two kattha to a nearby community school.

As the Rapti River, which flowed north of his house, gradually shifted southwards, the size of his land kept shrinking.