Tag: Malda
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700 West Bengal Families Have Lost Home, Farmland to Soil Erosion
A river barrage project over Ganga in West Bengal has slowly destroyed the lives of those living in low-lying areas of the project.
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Malda Locals In Fear, Soil Erosion Might Take Away Everything From Them
Soil erosion in rural West Bengal is taking away the only thing they could hold onto - their land.
Inhuman Conditions at the Quarantine Centre in Malda, West Bengal
Labourers returning from other states have been quarantined in deplorable conditions in West Bengal's Malda.
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Road Woes Leave Village Residents Stranded
600 residents in Malda, West Bengal have been facing problems for a decade due to water logging and unmetalled roads in their village.
1998 floods took their entire village still no respite
An entire village in Malda district of West Bengal was submerged in the 1998 floods. 17 years later, the people have not been given proper homes to stay. – There was no water here, there were houses. – Where are the houses?– No houses are left. They were all submerged....
Villagers in Malda forced to drink arsenic contaminated water
Sariapukur village is in Uttar Dariyapur, and comes under Kaliachak police station of Malda district, West Bengal. Villagers drank water from the pipeline, and about 100 people are covered in sores because of arsenic contamination. These people have been suffering for 6-7 months now, because of the negligence of their...