Against the tides
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Against the tides
As the mighty and turbulent Brahmaputra – also the lone male river in the country – continues to swallow huge 
patches of land due to erosion at various points in the cash rich Upper Assam district of Dibrugarh, all that the conscious citizens here are asking is the reason for Dibrugarh becoming so vulnerable to erosion today. What is the status of erosion? Will the town remain safe? Who is to blame for the pathetic and awful condition of the town today?
Well to start with we need to go back some decades and unearth the history of erosion which had claimed almost half of this Upper Assam town.
Erosion in Dibrugarh started mainly after the great earthquake of August 15, 1950, which left many parts of the state devastated. As the riverbed rose quite significantly due to the earthquake, many parts of the historic Dibrugarh town became victims of heavy erosion.
