Biratnagar, May 24 -- Koshi Province has seen over 11,937 disaster incidents in the past decade, leaving more than 73,000 families directly affected and claiming lives of 1,028 people, according to recent data.

Natural and man-made disasters-including lightning, landslides, floods, fires, and earthquakes-have made Koshi a vulnerable region in terms of disaster risk. Ram Kumar Dahal, a disaster expert and member of the Koshi Province Disaster Management Executive Committee, states that the province has now entered the 'red zone' for disaster vulnerability.

"The combination of geography, climate change, haphazard settlement expansion, and weak infrastructure has pushed Koshi into a high-risk category," said Dahal.

The data reveals that l...