The Jamuna River in Gaibandha and the Someswari and the Kangsha rivers in Netrokona swelled due to heavy rainfall over the last days and river erosion in those areas was posing serious threat to the lives and properties of the flood victims while government initiatives to prevent the erosion and help the homeless people were inadequate.
Our correspondent from Gaibandha reports that river erosion resumed in Fulchhari upazila of Gaibandha due to heavy current in the Jamuna River.
More than one hundred families lost their homes over the last seven days, and hundred more were facing threat of losing their habitations. A school and two mosques were devoured by the river too.
Uria UP chairman Abdul Hamid said the villagers near the bank of the river had no where to go as the river erosion started again a few days ago. Many of them were living under the open sky now, he added.
When contacted, Executive Engineer of Water Development Board Abdul Awal Mia said they had asked the high ups to send fund for preventing river erosion, and they were not able to do anything unless it arrived.
Our correspondent from Netrokona added that more upazilas in the district were flooded over the last few days as heavy rainfall raised the water level in all the rivers including the Someswari River, the Kangsha River in the district.
The newly submerged upazilas were Khaliajuri, Purbadhala, Atpara, Madan, Mohanganj and Barhatta.
Houses in more than 3,000 villages went under water in those areas, and the marooned people, living under the open sky, were suffering from acute crises of food and potable water. At least 400 educational institutions were inundated by the floodwater.
Locals said only people of Durgapur upazila, where the flood situation was improving, received 33 tonnes of rice as relief, but flood victims in other upazilas were yet to get anything from the government.
Meanwhile, our correspondent from Kurigram reports that flood situation has worsened there as low-lying areas of the district have been flooded recently.
At least 70 thousand people in 200 villages there have been marooned by the flood water.
Four border operation post (BOP) camps of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Rowmari upazila has gone under water.
The BOP camps were Baraibari, Hijlamari, Khearchar and Banglabazar. The BGB members from those camps have taken shelter in two primary schools.
The activities of weekly market near the border has been suspended for last two weeks while the sellers gathered at Baliamari village under Rajibpur upazila of the district last Wednesday.
Acting Deputy Director of local Department of Agriculture Extension office Dr Afsar Ali said around 15 hectares of rice fields have gone under water and farmers will suffer losses if water does not recede within a couple of days.
