Musahar families fear displacement as India upgrades Koshi canal amid cold wave

17 impoverished families living along the canal’s embankment in Saptari say bulldozers are days away and they have nowhere to go.

Seventeen impoverished families from the Musahar community living along the embankment of the Western Koshi Canal in ward 8 of Tilathi Koiladi Rural Municipality, Saptari, say they face imminent displacement as India presses ahead with canal upgrade and parallel road expansion, just as a severe cold wave has crippled their ability to earn daily wages.