Massive erosion in Brahmaputra and Teesta River have rendered thousands of families in eight unions in Kurigram district homeless in last one month.
Other establishments including nine educational institutions, one market, and one flood shelter are under the risk of being devoured.
Finding no other way, the victims are passing days under open sky in miserable conditions on nearby embankments, said chairmans of the respective unions.
In Ulipur upazila, 80 families of Korpurar Char, Char Ratideb, Arjun and Thuipaikor village under Daldaliya union, 60 families of Hokdanga, Kharija, Juan Satra and Goraipiar villages under Thetrai union and more than 150 families in Kajir Chawk, Titima and Santosh Obhiram village have lost their homesteads and arable lands in the erosion of Teesta River.
The overflow of Teesta has also engulfed homesteads and agricultural lands of 140 families in Bogulakura, Shataloshkor, Saduadamar Haat and Char Bajra villages under Bojra union. Five education institutions are also on the verge of extinction in the area.
In last one month, around 150 homesteads in Hatia, Begumganj, Buraburi and Shaheber Alga unions have gone under the bed of Brahmaputra.
Ulipur Upazila Nirbahi Officer Dr Mohammad Mansur Alam Khan said tin and Tk3,000 per family would soon be distributed among 264 families selected from the list of victims.
