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It is worth mentioning here that the flood in Siang river has once again worst affected the villages like Namsing, Sigar, Seram and Borguli under Mebo Sub-Division here in East Siang District where the villagers have lost hundreds and thousands of lands (mostly agricultural and domestic animal grazing land etc) by flood annually since the year 2000 some 20 years ago (Popularly recalled villagers as Chinese flood of year 2000). But despite such large scale damages to lands and villages etc including one of the region’s wildlife habitat, D. Ering Wildlife Sanctuary, state and central government hasn’t paid required attention yet.
According to the recent observation of a local NGO named ‘SEEANG’ which was basically formed with an objective to save the flood hit villages of Lower Mebo villages by Mighty Siang river, government of India and state government of Arunachal Pradesh sanctions 100 and above crores of funds even for smaller or lesser affected regions/areas which is beyond the understanding of a common citizen. As Siang river, known as Tsangpo in Tibet and Brahmaputra in rest of India is a sorrow of many villages today. The recently constructed Siang flood protection bundh funded by DoNER of Rs. 35 Crores out of initially projected Rs. 100 plus crores couldn’t also tamed the rogue Siang river during its peak flood season.