From liquor to floods, the tiny rat is dominating the public discourse in Bihar. “People living on embankments litter food grains, inviting rats, which carve out holes that weaken embankments,” he said during a review meeting on Friday. “We have tried to fix such problems, detecting such rat holes and getting them repaired within 72 hours to save several areas,” he added. Though experts agree that rat and fox holes weaken embankments, the latest round of floods was main attributed to some of the heaviest rainfall in the northern districts in many years. Department chief secretary Anjani Kumar Singh too blamed rats for the problem.

Source: Hindustan Times September 02, 2017 06:00 UTC