Tue, 20 Oct, 2026|Arunachal Pradesh’s Digital News Portal

The Siang Is Eating Their Fields — And No One Is Stopping It

The Siang Is Eating Their Fields — And No One Is Stopping It

The paddy is still standing. But for how long, nobody knows. In Borguli village under Mebo Sub-Division of East Siang district, farmers are watching the Siang River swallow their land — season after season, year after year. What began as riverbank erosion has now crept deep enough to threaten the Wet Rice Cultivation (WRC) fields … Read more

The Siang Is Eating Their Fields — And Nobody’s Stopped It Yet

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Every monsoon, the Siang River takes a little more. This year, it took a lot. A Threat That Comes Every Year Without Fail Officials from the district administration and the Water Resources Department arrived at Borguli village in Arunachal Pradesh’s Mebo Sub-Division on August 3 to see the damage for themselves. What they found wasn’t … Read more

Kharsang Under Water: Arunachal’s Villages Drown as Rivers Burst Their Banks

Kharsang Under Water: Arunachal's Villages Drown as Rivers Burst Their Banks

The rains didn’t just fall — they unleashed something far worse. Kharsang, a quiet circle in Changlang district’s Miao subdivision, is now fighting one of its worst flood crises in recent memory, with the Noa-Dehing and Buri Dihing rivers both surging well above danger levels and showing no signs of retreating. Villages Swallowed, Families Left … Read more