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A recent fact finding report for the Kosi floods of 2008, prepared by a civil society organization by various experts like Dr. Sudhir Sharma, Dr. Dinesh Kumar Mishra, and Gopal Krishna, highlighted that although India has built over 3000 km of embankments in Bihar over the last few decades, the flooding propensity has increased by 2.5 times during the same time period, not to mention that embankments failed during each major flooding event.
The swift and highly skilled operations of NDRF saved more than 100,000 people trapped in swirling waters of river Kosi.
On the east, its territory was probably extended up to the forests along the banks of the rivers, Koshi and Mahananda.
The Koshi Island wild life reserve is inside a big Island of Koshi River, which is the store of the wild water buffalo (called Arna) in Nepal.