MORIGAON, India (AP) — Monuwara Begum is growing weary of moving every time water pours into her home.
Begum is one of an estimated 240,000 people in the Morigaon district of the state that are dependent on fishing and selling produce like rice, jute and vegetables from their small farms on floating river islands, known locally as Chars.
Having nowhere else to permanently go, they then go back when the water subsides, clean up their homes and resume farming and fishing to make ends meet. “We are very poor people. We need the government’s help to survive here since this is our only home. We have nowhere else to go,” she said.
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