Anwarul Haider

The 192-kilometre road network within Lakshmipur municipality has become largely unfit for vehicles due to years of neglect.

Residents of the 150-year-old Noakhali municipality have long suffered due to a poor drainage system.

An acute shortage of teachers has long been hampering academic and administrative activities at 16 government high schools across the nine upazilas of Noakhali.

The broken roads include 3,509 km of paved roads, 209 km of brick-paved roads, and 5,310 km of earthen roads

Floodwaters have begun to recede from most areas in Feni, where continuous rainfall and hilly run-off since June 8 caused embankments to collapse at 12 points along the Muhuri, Kahua, and Silonia rivers, inundating large parts of Parshuram, Phulgazi, and Feni Sadar upazilas.

Over 2,300 ponds flooded, 2,371 hectares of crops destroyed, and 125km of roads affected

Nineteen-year-old Sajjad Hossain had no alternative but to start building a new thatched home for his two sisters, mother and himself since their house was swept away by a flood four months ago in Pashchim Aloka village, situated on the banks of Muhuri river in Feni’s Parshuram upazila.

Most SMEs lost all of their belongings and now seek government assistance