Kathmandu, Aug 1: India’s Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has dismantled a temporary embankment built by locals to protect Nepal’s Susta area in West Nawalparasi from erosion by the Narayani River. Residents constructed the sandbag barrier on July 31 after the river began eating away at farmland and settlements. According to Yogendra Gautam, coordinator of the Susta Protection Youth Campaign, a group of 10 to 15 plainclothes SSB personnel tore down th…
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