Strolling the social media posts after waking up on Monday morning, I noticed that it had continuously and heavily rained since Sunday night. I was pretty much tired after a long trip and fell asleep on bed without noticing that it was raining outside while I fell asleep. This was the first time I ever heard the capital of Nepal i.e. Kathmandu city had been badly affected by the rain. This year there was huge and continuous rain than previous.
The settlements around the banks of the river have been greatly affected due to the rain and in some places, there was flood in the main road of Kathmandu as well. There was uncontrollable traffic jam in many places of the city today as many were advised to take alternate route.
This photo is of Banepa, a town that is located 25 kilometre east of Kathmandu in Kavrepalanchowk district. The road is a small part of Araniko highway that connects Kathmandu with Tibet and China. The flood issue has been getting severe each passing year and the corrupted government has no any plans on mitigating its effects. They just grant permission for building projects on the banks of the river and they always try to carry out projects in unnatural way by reducing the size of the river. But nature is powerful, it always takes it shape no matter how you want to modify it. This was the same scenarios here as well. This is all the aftermath of the unmanaged urbanization and development.
Every year the river takes its original natural path. Unmanaged migration is another issue to this problem. Every year the population and housing in Kathmandu grows in an unprecedent way. The only way to get land in cheaper way is to buy it around the banks of river and this is achieved by reducing the size by certain ways. Mainly schools, industries will try to do this. And it is easy to get permission by doing nepotism and corruption. Its time for people to get serious about this issue and be done with it once and for all.