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Villagers repair breached embankment at Paikgachha 

Published : Wednesday, 28 August, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 103
Our Correspondent
KHULNA, Aug 27: Repairing of the broken embankment in Kalinagar area under Deluti Union in Paikgachha Upazila of the district was completed on Monday after hectic voluntary efforts by 5,000 people in the last five days.

Over 15,000 marooned people including women and children along with animals are still taking shelter in tents on the roads.

Different voluntary, political parties including BNP and Jamaat, social organizations and Bangladesh Navy are distributing relief and necessary materials including tents among the flood victims. 

While talking with this correspondent of The Daily Observer, Paikgachha Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mahera Nazneen said, villagers in cooperation with leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat, and activists of voluntary organizations completed the repairing of the embankment at Kalinagar.

Different government and non-government organizations are distributing relief goods, safe drinking water, and necessary materials for women and children and providing treatment to the distressed and sick people, she added.

UNO further said, the government has already sent adequate relief goods for the distressed people.

When contacted, Chairman of Deluty Union Ripon Kumar Mondal and ex-chairman of Soladana Union S M Enamul Haque said, over 5,000 people led by them completed the embankment repairing.

Distressed and submerged people are living in dilapidated condition; they are facing hardship as relief distributors can't reach them due to undeveloped waterway communication, they added. 

Karabi Mondal, Rumi Mondal, and other inhabitants of Noai Village and Sadhana Golder of Harinkhola Village, said, they are facing manifold problems. And, the heavy rain is increasing their hardship, they added.

They demanded immediate water removing and building of sustainable embankments at the coastal areas.

At least 13 villages, fish enclosures and crop fields were inundated by the heavy tide in the upazila after the embankment collapsed.

Locals said, at about 1pm on Thursday, the WAPDA embankment at the southern end of the 22nd Polder at Deluti Union broke due to the high tide.


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