Fertile land turns barren as Beas wreaks havoc in Himachal's Mand area

The recent monsoon deluge and excess water released by the BBMB from the Pong Dam has not only disrupted normal life, but has also wreaked havoc on fertile agrarian land in the low-lying mand area of Indora subdivision in lower Kangra district.

While hundreds of kanals of fertile land has become useless, paddy crop has been ruined in last month’s deluge. Not just the land, but rural infrastructure, too, has suffered extensive damage. The fields that were looking green with abundant paddy crop before the monsoon deluge, are now either filled with stones, sand and slush or are inundated with Beas waters.

Local residents said flashfloods in five tributaries of the Beas from Ghandran to Jakhbad in the mand area brought along stones and gravel, raising the Beas riverbed and effecting a change