Even though more than one and a half billion rupees have been spent on the management of the Khando River, the fear of flooding in the settlements remains. When the river floods every year, dozens of settlements in Saptari are inundated and people's wealth is being lost. However, the project has not yet been able to make the management of the river effective.

In some places, the risk of flooding has been increased due to 'raincut' on the embankment of the river, while in Rajviraj Municipality-15 Deuri Bharuwa, the embankment of about 10 meters has not been constructed.

One and a half hundred households in Deuri Bharuwa are at high risk of flooding due to non-construction of the embankment. "When the monitoring team came from the project, they asked for an embankment to be built here many times, but there was no hearing," said 46-year-old Arhuliadevi Yadav, a local resident.

As the river flows through the western embankment at that place, they are worried that the river itself may be 'diverted' towards the settlement after a big flood. "When there is a big flood, the water will hit the embankment around here and if there is no embankment, there is a possibility that the river will be diverted towards the settlement," said local 68-year-old Jahari Yadav, "but the project has not paid attention to the construction of an embankment here." "Even then, one person lost his life when the project was negligent, and the same kind of negligence is happening again," he said, "They don't do concrete work where it is very necessary, but they continue to spend money where there is less risk." He also accused that the project is deliberately putting the local people at risk in order to digest the budget in the name of flood prevention.

The embankment that was supposed to be built three years ago is still only 80 percent. However, if the project could not work until that period, even though 1 billion 567 million 600 thousand rupees have been spent on river management, the fear of flooding remains. The

project has spent 50 million 83 thousand rupees in the current financial year, while last year 13 million 29 million 18 thousand, 249 million 76 million in the financial year 079/080, 26 million 49 million rupees in 078/079 have been spent on river management. Similarly, in the financial year 077/078, 16 crore 9 lakh, in 076/077 16 crore 59 lakh, in 075/076 16 crore 99 lakh 52 thousand, in 074/075 21 crore 59 lakh 25 thousand, in 073/074 16 crore 73 lakh 89 thousand and in the financial year 072/073 2 crore 25 lakh rupees were spent on river management. Lalit Narayan Yadav, information officer of the