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email from ‘Medha Patkar’ dated - 6 September 2008 from Bihar

UPDATE ON THE FLOOD SITUATION IN BIHAR

Everyone has been hoping that the rescue operations in the calamity-affected areas of Bihar would get over, if not after 5 or 10 days, at least after 15 days. However, till today even after 12 days, there are thousands of families who seem to have been ensnared by the Koshi’s waters - either on marooned chunks of land in the affected villages or on the rooftops on some lone structure or on the embankments, rail lines, roads nearby.

With the army boats coming in and the country boats being contracted by the Government with the boatmen, it is being claimed that enough boats have now arrived and the rescue operations are in full control. But, in reality, though the army and navy camps are in place and there is an improvement in the rescue operations, the task is far from over.

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Yesterday we reached Beldaur in Madhipura districts, where the army camps appeared to be active. Shockingly, the people coming out of the boats are screaming and complaining that their kith and kin in the villages who are sick and starving, should be rescued immediately. Even as the ‘operations’ continue, the Army Commander did not even have a list of the villages along with the number of families and people to be rescued. How can this situation be acceptable? It is simply unacceptable that hordes of people have been waiting for not one or two, but for more than 15 full days. We also gathered that diseases, particularly diarrhoea and skin ailments are breaking out in the villages and camps. Thousands of cattle, unattended, lay scattered all over the relief camps and are also visible in large numbers on the roads that lead from the flooded villages to the relief camps. Even those people, who at times thought of staying put in the villages, had to take a decision and leave the villages, as the meager food grains, which was until now saved from
submergence, got exhausted. The shrieks and cries of the people are simply unbearable.

Our intervention could only help convince the Army Officials, to send the first boat to the villages where there were problems and the rescue of people began only after they were forced to wait for days and weeks. Just as we reached, there were two deaths reported, within a span of half an hour over the wireless. One was in Ratanpatti, the village visited by us, where we witnessed the horrifying situation of hundreds of women, children, elders and men, waiting for hours together to get space for only 8-10 persons on the boat, to cross just a few meters. Thee boats reached after 15 full days of awaiting and hunger.

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It seems as if death has become a part of life in these areas in Bihar, its shadows hovering on the waters of Koshi, sinking the humans and cattle alike. The Government has declared a figure of ‘twenty two’, as the official number of dead, over the last few days, but none of the villagers, who have witnessed the dance of death of Koshi would buy these grossly underestimated statistics.

All this and much more has deeply shocked and shattered all of us, when we reached the spot at Pratapganj in Supoul. The moment we started enquiring with the people who had come out, all of whom were visibly looking crestfallen, there were no answers to our questions initially, but the people slowly opened up, speaking hard and narrating poignant stories of pain and deprivation. People of Dharampur had started walking yesterday and reached today. Those from a comparatively nearby village, Lalitgram, also had to walk for not less than 6-7 hours in the flooded waters of Koshi. “Seventeen people died in my village”, said Harish Chandra Bushkuriya of Pariyahi village and many are critically sick. He was desperate that at least one boat be sent to his village the same day, but by the time we could speak with the army chief there, Pradeep Sharma in command, they had left. No doubt, the boat was stocked with food materials, but there was no guarantee of it going back to Pariyahi. Such major news, the Army officials did not even disclose, based on the operations of their contacts with the interiors.

Another person from Lalitgram could not wait for a minute and interfered and insisted that he should be heard first. “Three to four deaths a day are occurring every day and where is the administration?”, he yelled. He poured out his woes that his community brethren are lying on the river bank with no food, the food packets thrown from the aircrafts, they told us, were mostly spoiled and wasted by the food getting mixed with the soil and at times even hitting people from above. Whatever little remained was consumed, for one half meal a day. This person was none other than the ‘mukhya’ (village chief).

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The most poignant incident was narrated by the people of Lalitgram. The army boat crashed into a railway line near a culvert, causing the death of seven persons on the spot, including 4 children and a 21 year old pregnant woman, Saira Khatun. The only person who escaped was her husband who had in fact warned the army officials against going in the fateful direction. “His advice was not only not heeded, but he was in fact abused and beaten up”, his relatives, in utter grief and sorrow narrated the incident. He was however keen to do anything for saving his people from drowning. What was more of a shock and surprise was that the diametrically opposite information about the incident was provided by the Army to the District Collector, that all persons, but one,on board the boat were rescued.

The news of thousands of families having been camping on the Arraha canal was first disbelieved, both by the SDO and the Collector, both of whom we spoke to. The SDO was present right at the spot, but with no active intervention.

Chattapur, has not less than 17 wards, with the boats finding it difficult to reach out to at least 500 persons still left out and stranded. Mohd. Sadiq who managed to come out is as much concerned about cattle, as human life.

The Government has not and is still not following a simple yet vital practice of interacting effectively with the people who are coming out and reaching out to the people still stranded inside on this basis. This just seems to be missing.  All of this requires a simple input with about 20 volunteers and one senior official from the Army for rescue and multiple actions in a quick and better way.

How is it that the Centre and the State governments have not been thinking of joint planning and execution when this has been declared as a national calamity? Why hasn’t a dedicated Central team been constituted to over see the entire process? Co-ordinated planning, by mobilizing aircrafts, boats and resources from all over, to the maximum extent necessary could have and still can avert a lot of loss to the life, limb and livelihood.  With the boats coming in this late and water receding slowly and some villages being after the culvert, the pace of rescue is not to the required momentum.

We all must keep up the pressure on the Government and ensure that boats from all over are diverted for this purpose. Just as we questioned the State as to why more motor boats were not called in from Mumbai, after days of persuasion and challenge, 24 boats came in with a cadre of 60 personnel. The same could have happened with the Cast Guards or the machine boats available in large numbers at the Howrah port.

We were able to gather more information today as well, with our intervention and the little intervention in the system-building also did have an impact. We worked as a team of volunteers on various tasks, including gathering information on the inside situation.

There has, however, not been much of improvement on the other front. Civil society and NGO camps still do not have food grains, in adequate quantities from the State (FCI).Large organisations seem to be active in relief work only in Supoul, foe whatever reasons. Hand pumps have reached many camps. Though, through our persistent intervention to provide adequate rations, some of the Government camps are now being provided by the same.

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Even as relief and aid goes on, there is inept talk from various Govt. and political quarters in favour of construction of the high Dam on Koshi, and arguments to re-construct the broken embankments or even putting forth the dangerous proposal of inter linking of rivers. As against this, civil society must initiate and the state must welcome a healthy public debate on the issue of large dams, embankments and their relative merits and demerits.

We must be able to clearly put forth out perspective of preserving the natural ecosystems and human livelihood by alternative ways of harnessing water, instead of bilaterally favouring mega hydel initiatives despite innumerable past failures, not to speak of  the current Koshi barrage debacle.

Let us all synergize our efforts in preserving the rich Koshi ecosystem, with seven rivers upstream and sixty tributaries downstream. This is an opportunity, though at a very high price, for all of us to open-mindedly consider pro-people and pro-environment flood management as the real and sustainable answer. The coming few days, will be a test of the political will and capacity of the Government in reaching out to the million of devastated people.

Medha Patkar

ACTIONS THAT CAN HAPPEN

• Write articles on the issues and letters to the Editors of various newspapers and magazines.
• Keep collecting and contributing resources, dry foods, milk powder, plastic sheets, torches, clothes, blankets, children’s wear, woollen wear etc.
• Volunteers who can come to Bihar are most necessary to assist at the rescue points and resettlement camps. A couple of teams from Mumbai, Delhi and volunteers from Bhopal, Bangalore etc are arriving shortly. The health activists from Indore have already arrived. Many volunteers are already at brisk work. Kindly do contact if you can support and get involved in kind or cash.

Medha Patkar - 09423965153   Vijay Bhai - 09431068555  Pervin Jehangir - 09820636335

You may send your contribution to the following account :

Bank Name: State Bank of India

Branch: Muzaffarpur

Account No:  10877055118

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 On August 18, 2008 heavy water in the Kosi River in Bihar caused the manmade embankment to fail. The Kosi river, also called the Sorrow of Bihar, abandoned the prescribed western channel for an old channel near the center of its alluvial fan and also spread out widely and inundated towns, villages and cultivated fields on the densely populated alluvial fan.

The extent of flooding can be visualized by considering that the record 25,000 m 3/sec flow could cover 2,160 square kilometers a meter deep in 24 hours. 2008 flood covered a vast area and disrupted the lives of 2.3 million people including approximately 100 deaths.

 Bihar is in urgent need of all kinds of support. Appeal to all the people in Bandra,Khar and Santacruz - Pl do your level best.

We are providing a list of organizations, proactive citizens and individuals trying to help out the 2 million plus people in Bihar.

 1) Donating for Bihar flood victims to the Prime Minister Relief Fund: Details available on this link

http://pmindia.nic.in/relief.htm

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 2) Bihar Chief Minister Relief Fund

Send a cheque to
A/C Name: “Chief Minister Relief Fund, Bihar”
A/C No: 10839124928
Bank: State Bank of India, Secretariat Branch, Patna.
Put your Phone number, name and address on the back of the cheque.
Deposit the cheque to the nearest State Bank of India cheque drop box.

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 3) Sending donations to Prayaas.
PRAYAAS Contact No: 91-80-28441463
Please mention flood relief and your name in remarks section while transferring fund.
Mention your name in the comments.

Send an email with details to: Amitesh.Bharti@in.bosch.com
make a CC to: ashok.1857@gmail.com

Account in on the name of: M/S Prayaas
Current Account No. : 10447347087
Bank Address : State Bank of India, Indiranagar, Bangalore
Bank Code : 3301
Routing Number (Swift No.) : SBI NIN BB 147A
MICR number : 560002021

Prayaas Official Address:
Mr. Amitesh Bharti,Prayaas(r),
C1-201, GreenWood Regency,Doddakannahalli village,Carmelaram
PO, Adj. Wipro,Sarjapur Road,Bangalore - 560035, India.

If you want to send a cheque/DD:Please send the crossed A/c Payee cheque in favour of,”SBI, A/c Prayaas, Current A/c No. 10447347087”

The certificate & the receipt of your contribution will be dispatched by Prayaas.

 

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4) Donate to Sewa International

Money can be donated to Sewa International.

To Donate from Outside India Visit:
http://www.sewausa.org/contribute-sewa-usa

To Donate in India Contact:
Sewa International Delhi
Plot Number 49,
Deen Dayal Upadhayaya Marg,
New Delhi-110002
Phone: 0091-11 23232850
Fax: 0091-11-23517722
E-mail: sewainternationaldelhi [at] gmail [dot] com

 

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5) Narmada Bacho Andolan:

Email  From:  <medha@narmada.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Subject: [narmada_andolan] ACTION ALERT: BIHAR FLOODS, IMMEDIATE AND GENEROUS RELIEF NEEDED
DAMMED KOSHI RIVER CHANGES COURSE: FLASH FLOODS IN BIHAR
MILLIONS MAROONED: IMMEDIATE AND GENEROUS RELIEF NEEDED.

You may send your contribution to the following account :

Bank Name: State Bank of India

Branch: Muzaffarpur

Account No:  10877055118

Also,  Immediate Relief Needs:

- Clothes: In Good condition, for adults and children of all ages, bed
sheets, woollen clothes, umbrellas, rain coats etc.

- Medicines: A list of the requirements is given far below

- Financial help: Necessary. Please withhold for a very few days, until we are able to give you the account details of where the money must be send.

- Volunteers: We would also need to have many young and active volunteers, who have the experience of working in situation of calamity (such as Tsunami, earthquake etc).

We will soon be leaving for Bihar with a team. Those who want to volunteer and are willing to work hard, in a situation of challenge and adjusting to whatever conditions, are most welcome.
Please consider the urgency of the situation and do all the needful

Contact:
Pervin Jehangir, Medha Patkar, Raj Kumar
022- 22184779, 09820636335 07290-222464, 09424385139

 

List of Medicines needed urgently

1.Ciprofloxacin tablets and infusion
2.Levofloxacin tablets
3.Chloromyecetin capsules and injections
4.Ceftriaxone Injections
5.Chloroquine tablets and injections
6.Metronidazole Chloroquine tablets, suspension and infusion
7.Paracetamal tablets and suspension
8.B Complex tablets and syrup
9.Phensedyl DM cough syrup
10.Ranitidine tablets and injection
11.Antacids tablets and suspension
12.Cetrizine tablets and syrup
13.Ibuprofen tablets
14.Dexamethasone injections
15.Hydrocortisone injections
16.Deriphyllin injections
17.Electrol, Glucose and ORS Powder

 

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6) IMARAT SHARIAH

Maulana Anisur Rahman Quasmi (Nazim)

Phulwari Sharif, Patna - 801505 Bihar, (India)

Phone: 0612 - 2555351, 2555668, 2555212

Fax: 91-612-2555280

Residence: 0612-2555495

Mobile: 09431432702

Email: nazim_imarat@rediffmail.com

http://www.imaratshariah.org

 

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7) Jamaat-e-Islami Hind

JIH seeks contributions in cash or be provided food, medicines, tents, and clothing etc. directly to our Bihar office or Head Quarters, on following addresses.

Cheques or Drafts should be made in favour of:

Markaz Relief Fund Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, A/c No. 1447308475, Central Bank of India, New Delhi

or

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Relief Work, A/c No. 331, UCO Bank, Patna Or transfer money to our above accounts through core banking and inform us through telephone.

JIH HQ: D-317, Abul Fazl Enclave, Jamia Nagar, Okhla,

 New Delhi-25, India.

Email: jih@vsnl.com,

Tel: 91-11-26948341/ 26951409

JIH Bihar: Qamrul Huda, Bihar President, Patthar-Ki-Masjid (Stone Mosque), Patna, Bihar-06, India.

Tel:0612-2918128

Relief Camps Cells: 09430635095/ 09304269536.

 

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8) Ta’awun Trust (FCRA approved)

State Bank of India, Zakir Nagar Branch, New Delhi-110025.

Account No. 10177189422 (for Foreign Donors)

10177189603 (for Indian Donors).

Address: 162, Jogabai Main Road, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025 (India)

Phones: 26987467, 26981187, 26989253

Email: manzoor@ndf.vsnl.net.in

http://www.taawuntrust.org/

 

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9) Donations to GOONJ
H.O Delhi-J-93, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi- 76

Tel.- 011-26972351, 41401216
E-mail- goonjinfo@gmail.com, anshugoonj24@gmail.com
GOONJ Mumbai- Mr. Rohit Singh

Tel.- 9322381600, Email- rohitgoonj1@gmail.com
GOONJ Chennai- Ms. Padma Tel.- 9842665320,

Email- padmagoonj@gmail.com

Donations in India:
Send cash/cheque/draft in the name of GOONJ and send it to GOONJ.., J-93, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi- 76 (Kindly send your full name & address with the contribution for receipt/accounting purpose. ( All donations to GOONJ in India are tax exempted u/s 80 G of IT act.)

Overseas donations: through Cheque (in the name of GOONJ with your full particulars) or by wire transfer with an information on yasmeengoonj@gmail.com

Rotate it ( valid only for overseas donations ) through Wacovia Bank, New York swift code- 2000193008933, GOONJ,

A/C No- 2591101004644
Bank- Canara Bank, H block, market Sarita Vihar, New Delhi- 76
Swift Code- CNRBINBBDFS

 

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10) Appeal to support All India Relief Fund of Association for India’s Development.

Dear friends,

India is reeling under floods this monsoons. Nearly a hundred people are dead and several millions affected in Bihar.  AID has received an urgent proposal to help with the flood relief by way of providing boats.  The effort is being coordinated  by Kamayani and Ashish - AID volunteers from Milwaukee who have returned to Bihar.

In Araria, Bihar; Kamayani and team will focus on the following areas:

• 1. Rescue operations
• 2. Providing Food, medicine and shelter.
• 3. Fodder for animals
• 4. Removal of Caracas
• 5. Provide safe drinking water.
• 6. Monitoring of the expenditure by the state.

The team there will try to work along with the government and will also mobilize local resource. The immediate need is to rescue people which will go on for atleast another week.

We appeal to everyone to make a tax deductible contribution to AID’s https://secure.aidindia.org/aidadmin/donate/current/Donate.jsp?p=All%20India%20Relief%20Fund to help respond with relief efforts following natural and man made disasters in India.

Sincerely,
AID Volunteers.
www.aidindia.org

Aid-awareness mailing list
Aid-awareness@lists.aidindia.org

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11) Donate to Zee Foundation

 

The river of sorrow, Kosi, is living up to its name by wreaking havoc on the people of North Bihar. Hundreds of villages, comprising almost half of Bihar have been affected so far.

The sheer scale of the tragedy has dwarfed all efforts to offer relief and succour. It is at such times that the bond of oneness that makes us into a nation should show itself.

We at Zee News, are resolved, that the task of helping the more than two million people displaced due to the crisis does not lie with the government alone. We appeal to you, our readers, to come forward and contribute in the relief work by donating money.

Please make your cheaque/DDs payable to “Zee Foundation” and send it to Zee Foundation, FC - 19, Sector 16A, Noida 201301

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12)Donate to Action Aid

http://www.actionaidindia.org/emr_bih_floods.htm

 

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13)GRASSROOTS INDIA TRUST, Labour League Foundation, SEWA and SEDEM in collaboration of several other organizations of Delhi and Bihar have decided to contribute to the relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction process in Bihar. They have formed two teams of committed social development workers and volunteers to deliver relief material to the flood victims wherever they are staying at the moment. Their national team based at Delhi coordinates the relief work and fundraising, while the state team executes the actual relief work.

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They appeal to all concerned to contribute as much as possible in this difficult time for the people of Bihar. PLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY!
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MODE OF PAYMENT OF CONTRIBUTION:

In Cash/Kind:
Deposit at Our Collection Centres in Delhi, Chandigarh, Shimla

By Cheque (from India):
Drawn in favour of GRASSROOTS INDIA TRUST payable at New Delhi.
Send it by post to:
Administrator, Grassroots India Trust, 301 H-51/E, A. F. Enclave, Okhla, New Delhi - 110 025 India

By Cheque (from Foreign country):
Drawn in favour of SEWA payable at New Delhi

(FCRA No. 231660884).
Send it by post to:
Secretary, SEWA, BVK 3/4, New Seelampur (Brahmpuri Mod), Delhi - 110 053 India.

By direct Bank Transfer (from India):
Name of Account Holder: Grassroots India Trust
Account Number: 279010100007207
Name of Bank: AXIS Bank
Address of Bank: 18 Netaji Subhash Marg, Daryaganj, New Delhi - 110 002
SWIFT Code: CHASUS33

By direct Bank Transfer (from Foreign country):
Name of Account Holder: SEWA
Account Number: SB/CA 3092000100198100
Name of Bank: Punjab National Bank
Address of Bank: 4, L-Block, Connaught Place, New Delhi - 110 001
SWIFT Code: PUNB inbbdod

In case of any query please contact the following:

Dr. M. Mukhtar Alam, Chairman Labour League Foundation, 62A, DDA Flats, Ashok Vihar-III, Delhi - 110 052, Tel: +91-9968345380 E-mail: mukhtaralam2000@yahoo.com

Mr. H. Arjjumend, Executive Director, Grassroots India Trust, 1st Floor, Royal Apartment, J-68 A. F. Enclave, Okhla, New Delhi - 110 025, Tel: +91-9868993710 E-mail: grassrootsindiatrust@gmail.com, trust@grassroots.org.in Website: http://www.grassroots.org.in, http://www.grassrootsglobal.net

* When you send a Cheque or Transfer the amount, kindly intimate through e-mail or by post to all or any of the above contacts.

TRANSPARENCY STANDARD

Time to time, the details of donation receipts and the expenditures along with the progress of the relief work done will be placed this website: http://www.grassroots.org.in/biharfloodrelief-progress.htm .

Names of donors contributing Rs. 2000 or above (or its equivalent) will also be placed on the website: http://www.grassroots.org.in/biharfloodrelief-progress.htm .

 

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