SATKHIRA, June 18: A citizen’s dialogue organised by Bangladesh Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK) on ‘Possible actions to resolve water-logging during the monsoon season’ was held at the Mangrove Hall Room in the town on Wednesday.
In the dialogue, the speakers made seven recommendations including bringing the Satkhira Municipal area under a fully integrated drainage network and connecting the town’s drainage with the Pransayer Canal, closing all types of commercial fishing enclosures within the municipal area and making it mandatory to have ‘out drains’ for water drainage in case of enclosures, freeing the canals, beels and rivers of the entire district and removing all types of nets and illegal cross-border dams, quickly activating all useless sluice gates in the district and completing all preliminary preparations for water drainage, restoring the traditional and normal flow of tides through the proper use of sluice gates in the Betna and Morichchap rivers, re-excavating the interconnections between the Ichhamati, Morichchap, Kholpetua, Betna, Shalikha and Kapotakkho rivers to activate water flow, and making government-adopted development projects local environment-friendly and climate-tolerant.
Satkhira District Green Coalition President Abu Affan Roz Babu chaired the dialogue, and Satkhira Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Arnab Dutta was the chief guest.
The dialogue was addressed by civic leader Ali Nur Khan Babul, BARCIK Urbanist Jahangir Alam, civic leaders M Kamruzzaman, Mostafizur Rahman Ujjal, Farid Ahmed Moyna, Ahsanur Rahman Rajib, SM Biplob Hossain and Asaduzzaman Sardar, Satkhira Youth Water Committee President Md Hossain Ali, President of Youth Adaptation Forum Ibrahim Khalil, Hridoy Mandal of Education, Culture and Diversity Protection Team, Ifti Jamil, Jahanara Khatun, resident of Baddipur Colony, and Ershad Ali of Kazipara.
