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Abstract: Floods are India's most common natural disaster. As a result, we lose our livelihood everyyear, which hurts our socioeconomic culture. Bihar is the state in India that has been hit the most by floods, with around 7 million hectares of land impacted, accounting for roughly 70% of the state's total land area. It also has an impact on infrastructure development. As a result, the vast majority of people migrate. As a result, a flood management plan is required to reduce the negative repercussions and ill impacts of flooding. The majority of the time, decision-makers in Bihar opt forstructural interventions such as embankment construction, flood retention walls, flood levees, and channel improvement. reservoir, massive filleter, detention or retention basin, and so forth However, structural changes alone are thought to be insufficient to lessen the negative effects of floods in thestate. As a result, non-structural interventions such as flood plain management policies, building bye-laws, and flow and silt control policies are needed. It considers how to use flood plains wisely while also allowing them to be vacated for river use when the situation calls for it. The goal of this study is to illustrate the seriousness of flood impacts on state development and to analyze flood management options in Bihar.