As flood situation continued to deteriorate in different parts of the country, it has brought misery to northern districts leaving a million people marooned and damaging crops, houses and other infrastructures.
According to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), the overall flood situation in Kurigram, Gaibandha, Jamalpur, Bogra, Serajganj districts in the North and North-western part and Sylhet, Sunamganj Netrokona in north-eastern part may likely to improve while Manikganj, Rajbari, Munshiganj, Shariatpur districts in the central part of the country deteriorated.
Water levels in 33 river stations monitored by the FFWC have marked rises and 50 stations recorded falls, reports BSS.
Among the 85 monitored water level stations, two river stations have been registered steady while 23 stations have been recorded flowing above danger level, a bulletin issued by FFWC said yesterday.
Our Jamalpur correspondent said fresh areas in the district were inundated with continuous rising of water level in the Jamuna River.
The swollen river inundated fresh areas under four unions damaging crops, houses and other property.
About 2,57,611 people in 53 unions out of 68 in the district were affected by the flood.
The massive flood suspended classes of 111 primary schools and flood water entered in the compound of 155 more primary schools. Department of Agriculture Extension Office said with the rising of the water level, standing crops on 16,280 hectares of land of the district were submerged.
According to BSS reports, in Rangpur, the flood situation deteriorated further following rise in water levels of the major rivers during the past 24 hours till 6 am leaving over six lakh people marooned in the Brahmaputra basin, official sources said.
Officials in district administrations and local public representatives said nearly six lakh people have become marooned in the low-lying and char areas of Kurigram, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari, Bogra and Sirajganj districts in this second spell floods.
The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said standing T-Aman, vegetables and betel leaf crops on 38,661 hectares of land have been submerged under floodwaters anew in Kurigram and Gaibandha under Rangpur Agriculture Zone alone.
Of them, standing T-Aman on 23,295 hectares of land and vegetables on 150 hectares have been submerged in Kurigram and T-Aman on 14,938 hectares, vegetables on 134 hectares and betel leaf on three hectares of land have been submerged now in Gaibandha.
In Gaibandha, as the two major rivers have continued to rise, the overall flood situation deteriorated further inundating more fresh areas, reports our correspondent.
Due to rise of the water level in the rivers, the chars and river basin areas including main land of all the seven upazilas in the district had been submerged leaving over 3 lakh people of the district marooned.
Many of the flood victims have taken shelter on the nearby primary schools and flood control embankment and were passing their days miserably with their belongings including domestic animals and poultry birds for want of food and drinking water and fodder.
