Type

Journal Article

Author(s)

Majumdar, S.

Title

Impact of Flood and Bank Erosion on Human Life: A Case Study of Panchanandapur at Malda, West Bengal, India

Year

2018

Journal

Impact of Flood and Bank Erosion on Human Life: A Case Study of Panchanandapur at Malda, West Bengal, India

Vol (No), pp

8(9)

Abstract

River bank erosion, is the wearing away of bank materials of a river. It is a dynamic process affecting the concave side of the bank, while depositing sediments on the opposite side. Almost every Indian river is prone to bank erosion turning more than half of the country’s land affected and lives of millions deplorable. The situation in West Bengal is no different in this respect. The present study is mainly focused on those people who are harmfuly affected by river bank erosion. It tries to show that how people combat with dynamic nature of river in each year and how they lead their life with facing this problem. The study tries to make a link between people’s livelihood and life style pattern and seasonal variation of river shifting pattern, it basically show how livelihood pattern and life style of flood affected people change in Pre flood, Flood and Post-Flood conditionsand also observe how they utilize their land after flood. This study will also measure the socio-economic condition of flood affected people. In this unguaranted life condition, they exist in what kind of socio-economic conditions. It basically measures their lifestyle. Significance of this measure is that it shows socioeconomic condition of those people who are settled with their land in just beside the river bank is much poorer than those people who are settled far away from river bank. This study is to show the migration pattern of people for this flood. This study divided into two perspective. The first one is that people are migrated temporally at some extend from river and after flood period, they again come back to their existing place or second one is that they are shifted to other places from their living land. This kind of micro level studies are very limited in West Bengal. This issues are differ the importance of present study from existing studies

Citation

Majumdar, S. (2018). “Impact of Flood and Bank Erosion on Human Life: A Case Study of Panchanandapur at Malda, West Bengal, India.” 8(9). URL : http://www.pragatipublication.com/assets/uploads/doc/5d892-1038-1056.13825.pdf