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Swelling of the rivers due to last three days’ heavy rain coupled with onrush of water from upstream hills across the border has caused inundation of vast Aman fields and marooned thousands of people in Kurigram district.
Local people demanded a bailey bridge over the river Jhinjirum connecting the border haat and more high of the border haat ground.
Trade in the Border Haat on Baliamari-Kalichar border in Rajibpur upazila also got suspended due to the flooding Wednesday (August 17). Local administration expects the water may be removed within a week.
The Border Haat, meant for trading of locally grown agricultural and manufactured finished products mostly from the surrounding villages across the Bangladesh-Indian border, was inaugurated on July 23.
A Baliamari villager Md. Babul Akter, 30, said this correspondent, “The connecting bamboo bridge with the Border Haat was damaged on Wednesday morning. As a result local people could not go to the haat. The flash flood water was flowing over three-feet of the haat ground. We demanded high land of the haat ground and a bailey bridge over the Jhinjirum river”.
Baliamari Company Commander of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Md. Abu Taher said, “The flash flood water is being removed from the haat field from the last Saturday noon. We expect the water will remove within a week. But local people could go to the haat by using boat for crossing the river”.
“The Border Haat area has been flooded and the 150-feet bamboo bridge over the Jhinjirum River connecting the haat on India-Bangladesh border was washed by the river current on Wednesday, causing closure of the haat,” Rajibpur UNO Md Abdul Kader said yesterday.
He said, “The matter has been informed to the higher authority. The authority will decide the matter of constructing the bridge. The haat will be run after removing the water from the haat. Now the people could market from the haat by using the boat for communication”.
Around 1,586 hectares of aman field in the district have gone under water due to the heavy rain and water from the upstream during the last three days, said Alok Kumar Sarker, deputy director of the Department of Agriculture Extension in Kurigram.
Huge quantities of jute bundles, kept for rotting in the river, floated with the river current.
Around five thousand people have been marooned in different lowland areas of the union due to the heavy rain, said Md Mominul Islam, chairman of Berubari union parishad (UP) in Phulbari upazila.
“Bhaisher Kuthi, Rasulpur, Khamer, Raulia, Kumarer Bosh, Sarkerpara and Prothom Alo Char villages have gone under water. Besides, erosion by Dharla and Dudhkumar rivers has turned serious in some areas of the union. Thirty families have taken shelter on the embankment and high land,” said Md Abdul Malek, chairman of Ghogadaho UP in Kurigram Sadar upazila. Roumari Upazila Agriculture Officer Md Sirajul Islam said about four hundred hectares of land with aman plants in 35 villages under the upazila have gone under water and around four thousand people have been marooned.The bamboo bridge connecting the Baliamari-Kalairchar Border Haat was collapsed due to the recent flash flood in the river Jhinjirum. The first-ever border haat has kept suspended at Rajibpur upazila of Kurigram district.
Swelling of the rivers due to last three days’ heavy rain coupled with onrush of water from upstream hills across the border has caused inundation of vast Aman fields and marooned thousands of people in Kurigram district.
Local people demanded a bailey bridge over the river Jhinjirum connecting the border haat and more high of the border haat ground.
Trade in the Border Haat on Baliamari-Kalichar border in Rajibpur upazila also got suspended due to the flooding Wednesday (August 17). Local administration expects the water may be removed within a week.
The Border Haat, meant for trading of locally grown agricultural and manufactured finished products mostly from the surrounding villages across the Bangladesh-Indian border, was inaugurated on July 23.
A Baliamari villager Md. Babul Akter, 30, said this correspondent, “The connecting bamboo bridge with the Border Haat was damaged on Wednesday morning. As a result local people could not go to the haat. The flash flood water was flowing over three-feet of the haat ground. We demanded high land of the haat ground and a bailey bridge over the Jhinjirum river”.
Baliamari Company Commander of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Md. Abu Taher said, “The flash flood water is being removed from the haat field from the last Saturday noon. We expect the water will remove within a week. But local people could go to the haat by using boat for crossing the river”.
“The Border Haat area has been flooded and the 150-feet bamboo bridge over the Jhinjirum River connecting the haat on India-Bangladesh border was washed by the river current on Wednesday, causing closure of the haat,” Rajibpur UNO Md Abdul Kader said yesterday.
He said, “The matter has been informed to the higher authority. The authority will decide the matter of constructing the bridge. The haat will be run after removing the water from the haat. Now the people could market from the haat by using the boat for communication”.
Around 1,586 hectares of aman field in the district have gone under water due to the heavy rain and water from the upstream during the last three days, said Alok Kumar Sarker, deputy director of the Department of Agriculture Extension in Kurigram.
Huge quantities of jute bundles, kept for rotting in the river, floated with the river current.
Around five thousand people have been marooned in different lowland areas of the union due to the heavy rain, said Md Mominul Islam, chairman of Berubari union parishad (UP) in Phulbari upazila.
“Bhaisher Kuthi, Rasulpur, Khamer, Raulia, Kumarer Bosh, Sarkerpara and Prothom Alo Char villages have gone under water. Besides, erosion by Dharla and Dudhkumar rivers has turned serious in some areas of the union. Thirty families have taken shelter on the embankment and high land,” said Md Abdul Malek, chairman of Ghogadaho UP in Kurigram Sadar upazila. Roumari Upazila Agriculture Officer Md Sirajul Islam said about four hundred hectares of land with aman plants in 35 villages under the upazila have gone under water and around four thousand people have been marooned.
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