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Sandha erodes bazar, ferryghat, road at Kawkhali 

Published : Saturday, 28 December, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 279
Our Correspondent
 
KAWKHALI, PIRIJPUR, Dec 27: Bazar, ferryghat and road are disappearing from Kawkhali Upazila of the district due to erosion by the Sandha and Gabkhan rivers.

In the last year, over 50 business establishments were eroded in Amrajuri Ferryghat Bazar area. Ten days back, four shops were shifted because of erosion.
One year back, as alternative road repairing work of half kilometre (km) road began at Amrajuri Union. But it was left undone.

According to locals, the Sandha River has been making erosion for two to three times in a year.

Fifty more  business establishments are at erosion risk in Ferryghat Bazar along the Kawkhali-Swarupkathi-Barishal Road.

A recent visit found 500-metre area eroded by the Sandha River in the west of Amrajuri Bazar.

A fraction of Amrajuri Bazar Mosque has been eroded. One km of Kawkhali-Shekherhat Road has been broken.

Locals said, ferry service takes place daily from Amrajuri Ferryghat via Pirojpur Sadar and Kawkhali to Nesarabad Upazila.
 
This erosion by Sandha and Gabkhan has been continuing for over five decades.

Over the decades, Ferryghats of both sides were shifted for 20/25 times.

Due to the disappearance of one fraction of the Kawkhali-Shekerhat Road, people of Purba Amrajuri, Magura, and Ashoa villages and Shekherhat Village are suffering communications.

A drug trader of Amrajuri Ferryghat Bazar Gazi Anwar Hossain said, if the erosion is not prevented on an emergency basis, Purba Amrajuri Ferryghat Mosque Bazar, Road and the ferryghat will disappear.

On December 4, Water Development Board (WDB)-Pirojpur Executive Engineer Nusair Hossain inspected the eroded Amrajui Ferryghat area with Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Sajal Molla. 

UNO Sajal Molla said, "We are working to prevent erosion in Amrajuri Ferighat, Sonakur and Amrajuri Ashrayan. We are coordinating with WDB."

WDB Executive Engineer Nusair Hossain said, recently a survey report of development project profile (DPP) has been approved; surveys of basins of the Sandha and Baleshwar rivers are on-going; and, in light of their reports, a DPP will be submitted.



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