On the banks of Padma river, in the border areas of Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj, nature’s wrath is on plump show.
Sunken homes dot the panorama – 70 devoured by the river only this week amid heavy rains.
Hundreds of oldsters seem like residing in a perpetual verbalize of inundation.
Other folks, canines and cattle struggle by water to get locations. Or no longer it is a sinking land owing to unabated river erosion.
And this trend is persevering with.
Chairman of Char Ashariadaha union, below Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila, Ashraful Islam stresses the significance of the catastrophe.
“No longer no longer as a lot as 70 homes comprise disappeared into the river, and diverse folk are entertaining faraway from their homes. The erosion of Padma river has develop into excessive as a result of incessant raining for a week. The industrial loss is additionally big as abundant areas of tomato fields were inundated too,” he says.
Speaking to The Enterprise Long-established, Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Godagari Atikul Islam stated they’ll focus on over with the region and make an evaluate of the difficulty as of late (28 September).
Though some areas at Char Mazardiya on the opposite side of Rajshahi metropolis were inundated, the erosion has halted there to a diploma.
That is no longer the case at Chak Rajapur union in Rajshahi’s Bagha upazila, where folk are persevering with to pass to higher grounds for security.
“No longer only homes, but a foremost school has additionally been shifted. No longer no longer as a lot as 3,000 households in Chak Rajapur and Gargari union stay virtually below water at this 2d,” stated Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Bagha upazila Md Tarikul Islam.
Meanwhile, excessive erosion is occurring all over a four kilometre stretch in Alatuli and Narayanpur union of Chapainawabganj.
A third of agricultural land in the unions has long gone below water, while folk residing in Paka, Dulavpur and Monakosha unions in Shibganj upazila were hit onerous by inundation and erosion too.
Chairman of Naraynpur union in Chapainawabganj Sadar Najir Hossain stated they didn’t get any resolution to those complications after making the rounds of various ministries.
Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Chapainawabganj Sadar Tasmina Khatun stated a total of 1,000 households were shifted from riverbanks in Char Alatuli and Narayanpur unions.
“A foremost school and a reduction refuge comprise disappeared into the river. A filled with 1,500 hectares of pulses crops were damaged, which has created an economic toll on the local folk. The Zila Parishad administrative heart has offered 1,000 metric tonnes of rice to the folk of these two unions,” Tasmina stated.
In step with Extra Deputy Commissioner of Chapainawabganj Ahmed Mahbub-ul-Islam, around 6,000 folk from the district Sadar and Shibganj upazila are for the time being submerged in river water.
“Many homes were taken away by the mighty Padma. We’re for the time being making an estimate of the losses,” stated Mahbub.
In step with an estimate by Rajshahi Divisional Agriculture Put of dwelling of job, on the least 3,000 bigha agricultural land in Natore, 9,681 bigha in Rajshahi and 14,857 bigha in Chapainawabganj were inundated by the Padma, while on the least 18 char areas were submerged.
