Bihar Floods; Nitish Kumar – Shamed Bihar - India

Bihar Floods; Nitish Kumar – Shamed Bihar - India

Mr. Nitish Kumar,
Chief Minister of Bihar
cmbihar-bih@ nic.in

Copy to the Chief Justice of India.
Copy to the Governor of Bihar.

Request for Judicial Enquiry in To “Your Shameful Performance”

Dear Mr. Nitish Kumar,
I as an Indian feel ashamed of you gross incompetence in first keeping the Critical Embankments in good maintenance, not resigning after the world’s worst Nitish made tragedy because people believe maintenance contracts were given to some politician of you party – here I am not complaining your disregard for democratic norms and Making a FOOL of Prime Minister of India in telling him the breach was caused due to bad maintenance in 2004.

After going through NASA pictures links provided here I found the embankment upstream of Kosi Barrage worked perfectly even in 2007. You are holding this position since November2005.

http://www.dartmout h.edu/~floods/ 2007115.html

Your government is squarely responsible for awarding the contract to a member of your party.

Instead of resigning or putting the culprits in jail you have actually penalized a Whistle Blower who warned of the up coming Calamity well in advance..

I would like your government to resign for incompetence, corruption, shielding the culprits, penalizing the Whistleblower and Shameful conduct in making a fool of Prime Minister.

Ask any gateman of railways who may be close to you – when 2006 and 2007 floods passed through the Kosi embankments upstream of Kosi Barrage it was the Corrupt Contractor appointed by your government Pocketed the Money and did nothing to repair the embankments that failed under below average discharge conditions.

Your resigning will help State Administration under governor’s rule to provide relief to the affected masses with minimum corruption and political discrimination.

Chief Justice of India may order public enquiry by a retired CJI in to this Colossal Manmade Tragedy.

I hope you shall oblige people of Bihar and request CJI to appoint a retired CJI to investigate Bihar Floods.

Thank you,

Ravinder Singh
Inventor & Engineer
September15, 2008
Progressindia008@ yahoo.com

Lalu-RJD ignored threat from Kosi, Nitish tells PM
Posted: Aug 29, 2008 at 0019 hrs IST
http://www.indianex press.com/ news/Lalu- RJD-ignored- threat-from- Kosi,-Nitish- tells-PM/ 354690/

New Delhi, August 28 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday declared the Bihar floods a “national calamity” and announced immediate assistance of Rs 1,000 crore for rescue and relief operations and 1.25 lakh tonnes of foodgrains.

A day earlier, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who heads a JD(U)-BJP coalition, showed Singh a 2004 satellite image to make the point that his Government cannot be faulted for not taking steps to prevent the flooding — the satellite image, official sources said, clearly showed that the Kosi embankment had come under pressure four years ago at the same place where it breached the barrier on August 18.

The western channel of the Kosi was blocked and the eastern channel was under pressure.

In 2004, Bihar was under RJD rule. Sources said that Nitish Kumar, by presenting the PM with factual data from 2004, was making the point that the river embankment upkeep was either poor or did not receive the attention it should have from the then RJD government.

He pointed out that the Kosi had been changing course from 1979, shifting from east to west and now again back to west.

Sources said Nitish Kumar told the PM that a day before the embankment breached 12.9 km upstream of the Kosi barrage on the Nepalese side, he had urged External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to take up the matter with Kathmandu. Mukherjee got back to him saying that Nepal was preparing for the swearing-in of Prachanda as Prime Minister and there was no authority who could deliver immediately, the sources said.

Rejecting RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s charge of mismanaging the flood situation, Nitish Kumar told the PM that the maintenance of the Kosi embankment was the job of the Ganga Flood Control Commission, set up in 1972, under the Ministry of Water Resources at the Centre.

The chairman of GFCC is also the head of the Kosi High Level Committee. Sources said that Nitish Kumar told Singh that Bihar was only the implementing agency because the Kosi water was a subject of the Indo-Nepal treaty.

There is worry that the Kosi will swell even more by the first week of October. And with repair work possible only in October at Kushaha in Nepal, the place where the breach occurred, the threat levels will only rise. An estimated Rs 950 crore will be required to plug the breach and repair the Kosi embankment.