IN recent years the incidence of floods in states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh has gone up exponentially. My experience of living in Bhagalpur district of Bihar for three years gave me first-hand experience of floods. I was told that Bhagalpur faces floods every alternate year, but I witnessed flooding almost every year. Last year, Bhagalpur was flooded twice in the span of just three months.
In 2020, while teaching a paper on environment education to my political science students, I floated the idea of a project titled “Know Your River”. I asked them to gather information. . .
