Incident Reports

Protesters demand water for irrigation

2019-09-09

Madhes, Rautahat, Gadhimai

Farmers in Gadhimai Municipality of Rautahat today organised a demonstration demanding water for irrigation.

Citing the fact that their paddy crops were dying due to lack of irrigation, irate farmers held their demonstration in their fields.

“Fifteen years after the subsidiary canal of Bagmati Irrigation Project was built, the canal has yet to be put into operation. Our paddy fields are parched for want of rain,” said Rajdev Das, a farmer of Gadhimai-1, adding that paddy crops planted in some six bigha land were wasting away.

Another farmer Dipen Shrestha also lamented, “They took our land in the name of constructing irrigation canal. So far, they haven’t given us any compensation. On the contrary, even though the canal is ready they don’t release water for us,” he said.

On his part, Bagmati Irrigation Project divisional engineer Akhalakh Siddhaki said the project had taken farmers’ concerns seriously and was working towards addressing them.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Primary Form Demonstration
Primary Cause Access/control of water resources (irrigation, hydropower)
Actor 1 - Number of people 20
Actor 1 - Affiliations Citizen/Individuals
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people n/a
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Local authorities (incl VDC, district, gov. line agencies at local level except education and health)
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media , Local Newspaper - Parsa

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