Erosion in Kurigram snaps road link to two upazilas
More areas flooded in Gaibandha
Left: Erosion by Dudhkumar river washes away about 100 metres of road near Sonahat railway bridge in Bhurungamari upazila of Kurigram on Monday snapping the district town's communications with two upazilas. Right: An old man wades through flood water at Chinir Patal village in Saghata upazila in Gaibandha district yesterday. Photo: Anwarul Haque(Courtesy) and Star
Road communications between the district headquarters and nine unions of two upazilas snapped as Dudhkumar River devoured 100 metres of Bhurungamari-Kachakata road near Sonahat Bridge at Paikerchhara union under Bhurungamari upazila on Monday. The nine unions are Paikerchhara, Char Bhurungamari, Baldia, Banga Soanahat and Tilaye under Bhurungamari upazila and Kedar, Narayanpur, Ballabher Khash and Kachakata under Nageswari upazila. More than two lakh people of the nine unions are almost confined to their areas due to sudden disruption of lone road link. Earlier, the district water development board (WDB) had taken up an emergency project to repair the road in a month. Lawmaker of Kurigram-1 (Bhurungamari & Nageswari) constituency AKM Mostafizur Rahman inaugurated the project of 400-meter repair work on August 5 this year. But the project was suspended temporarily due to heavy rain and onrush of upstream water into river Dudhkumar on August 18. The work resumed on August 23 but on September 11 a crack developed in the road near the bridge due to heavy rain and fresh pressure of water. Finally, erosion collapsed the road near Sonahat Bridge on September 13 (Monday). Our Correspondent in Gaibandha reports: Water level in Jamuna rose to 65 centimeter above red mark yesterday inundating more areas in six upazilas of the district. A large crack developed in the flood control embankment at Katlamari. Local people are trying hard to stop the seepage dumping sand bags and using bamboo spars. Nearly 40,000 people became marooned in different shoal areas along Jamuna basin. Many families in those areas are still staying in their houses as they could not move out for want of country boats. Local NGOs with their limited resources are at work rescue the people marooned by three to five feet water. The victims are suffering from scarcity of drinking water as all the tube-wells have gone under water, the NGO workers said. According to district agriculture extension department, aman crops on around ten thousand hectare of land have gone under floodwater.
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