Rautahat, July 24 Flood in the Bagmati River has started eroding landmass putting human settlements in three local levels at risk in Rautahat. The Bagmati had wreaked havoc on July 12 and 13 in the district. Despite the reduced water flow, the river is eroding land swiftlywith spurs no 1 and 2 already eroded. This has terrified the residents of Bramhapur and Rajdevi villages in Rajdevi Municipality . The Bagmati and Lalbakaiya River Control Project has shown apathy towards controlling erosion caused by the river. Rajdevi Municipality took the initiative to control erosion, but the efforts were futile. Nabin Singh, a local, said that the municipality had worked on a war footing to control erosion by the Bagmati River. The river has already eroded more than 30 bigha land in Rajdevi Municipality in the past six days. Mayor Dhirendra Singh said the swift pace of erosion had increased risk to local residents. Mayor Singh said that his municipality was doing everything possible to check the erosion and urged the government to save the embankment of the river. Durga Bhagawati Rural Municipality Chair Arun Kumar Sah said the federal and province governments should work to control the flood in the winter when the river shrinks. The flood water has breached the embankment at Laxmipur of Gadhimai Municipality and entered the human settlement. According to Mayor Shyam Prasad Yadav, flood water had made it hard to repair the embankment. He asked the municipality residents to stay safe and alert through loud speakers. The flood in Bagmati and Lalbakaiya rivers breached embankments at 11 places on July 12 and 13 and gushed into human settlements. Sixteen persons lost their lives to the flood in the district. The condition of two who went missing in the flood is yet to be known. More than 70,000 houses were affected by the flood and inundation. Bagmati and Lalbakaiya Rivers Control Project Chief Raj Kumar Shreewastab said that Lalbakaiya River had fully breached the embankments at many places. “Work is under way to repair the damage and the breached dams in the river”, said Shreewastab. Rautahat CDO Kiran Thapa said that the DAO had directed the project to reconstruct the structures and dams destroyed by the Bagmati and Lalbakaiya rivers. He urged people living downstream to stay alert.