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Water-logging causes public sufferings at Santhia

Published : Monday, 7 October, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 164
Jalal Uddin
SANTHIA, PABNA, Oct 6: Serious public sufferings have been created at different Mahallas under Santhia Municipality in the district due to water-logging triggered by non-stop raining for several days.  

Dwellers of the water-logged Mahallas can't work properly. Due to inadequate drainage system, the water recession is halted.

About 200 families in the municipality have been water confined; water entered living houses while roads have been submerged.

Along with public sufferings, many children are committing accidents in the stranded water.

Children can't go to school regularly. Bathrooms have also been submerged.

People have also been in disarray with their cattle. Many are affected by skin disease for wading through foul water.

Suffering people demanded permanent solution from the authorities concerned in addressing the water-logging.

A recent visit found public sufferings in several Mahallas including Pipulia, Karogorpara and Fakirpara in the municipality.

Many loom owners have closed their looms.

According to sources, few months back new drain construction had begun. But it was not completed.

At present, there is knee-deep water in houses and roads. People can't go out. They can't go to haats and bazars.

In many areas, tube-wells have been submerged, causing drinking water crisis. 

During the visit, local dwellers Selim Hossain, Alamin Munsi, Mizan, Sohag Munsi, Sanowar Mallik, and Mominul Haq said, if a new drain would be linked with the old drain in front of Anchharia Jam-e-Mosque at Pipulia Tinmatha crossing in Dakkhin Boailmari Mahalla, the stranded water would recede rapidly.  Then people would get relief of sufferings, they added.

A class three student Maria Khatun said, "As water is inside home and on road, we can't go to school regularly."

While talking with this correspondent of The Daily Observer, marooned dwellers in Pipulia Mahalla in the municipality Meherunnesa, Chandana Khatun, and Sufia Khatun said, "We have been deprived of adequate food as our ovens have been submerged for about last two weeks. For wading through stranded water, our feet have been infected."

Few days back, Sifat, 6, Jui, 5, Joba, 5, and Suraiya, 7, fell down in water and became injured. 

Loom owners of Karigor Para Azim Munsi and Mehedul said, "As water entered our factories, we have closed our looms in fear of electricity shock. It is causing losses to our businesses."   

Member Secretary of BNP-Santhia Municipality and social activist Sirajul Islam Mallik said, the upazila administration and the authorities have been informed about public sufferings due to the water-stranding.

"Because of the water-stranding, Poura dwellers are deprived of citizenry facilities. We draw the attention of the authorities for solving the water stagnation rapidly," he added.

Santhia Upazila Administrator and Upazila Assistant Commissioner (AC-Land) Rifatul Haq said, the municipality engineer has been instructed to take necessary measures for inspecting the water-logged Mahallas and solving the water stagnation in order to reduce public sufferings.

All-out assistance will be provided so that the water-logging is permanently addressed in the municipality, the AC added.



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