Causes and Consequences of Flood on The Livelihood of People in kailari Rural Municipality, Kailali District

Abstract

The study entitled,entitled ''Causes and Consequences of Flood on the Livelihood of People in Kailari Rural Municipality, Kailali District", analyzes the impacts of Mohana river's flood on live and livelihood of the respondents living in Kailari rural municipality ward no. 5, Kailali. The study only was focused on the changing impacts of flood on livelihood and only 100 respondents were involved in this study. Qualitative research design was used for this study and it analyzed the objective of the research. It attempted to describe the impacts of flood on live and livelihood of the people living in study area.Total households of Kailari rural municipality ward no 5 is 400, among them 100 HH have been selected as sample household. Each of the household one respondent including male and female were randomly selected for this study. The data was qualitative and quantitative in Nature. Both primary and secondary data was used to collect the information for this study. Primary data were collected from the field (study area) by using survey questionnaires. Book, articles, reports were the secondary data for this study they had been already published.The situation is vulnerable in the study area because flood of Mohana River create negative impact on lives and livelihood of the people living in Kailari rural municipality ward no 5. Annually in rainy season flood occurs in the river and destroys the cultivated land. Before some year's situation is not so worse but now flood creates problems in daily life of the people living in study area. Due to climate change and deforestation risk of flood increasing in study area, however, local and federal government invest to control the flow of river. In some cases, local people also invaded the river natural flow which create problems to flow river its' in its natural tune. For reduced the problems of flood local people should be conscious about flood and its effect. Possible area of coming flood should be open and made strong and sustainable dame to control over the river's flood.Climate change is one of the major cause floods so we should be conscious about climate change and deforestation. Local people should be preserved the natural flaw of the water.Houses, sheds, schools and other infrastructure should not be made near the river.Government should relocate the damage house in safe place, local government should make plan to reduce the risk from flood related disaster and local people should beneglected about the risk of flood.