Women form human chain
Women of Bhurulia village in Shyamnagar upazila formed a human chain by the side of Sardar Bari Pond in the village on Monday, demanding its re-excavation to solve the acute scarcity of drinking water in the area. Over 50 women joined the programme who later also held a press conference. They told newsmen that several thousand people in Bhurulia, Kachhrahati, Sonamugari, Kashempur, Kantopur and adjoining villages under Aila affected Bhurulia union had been facing acute scarcity of safe drinking water for lack of sufficient tubewells and other reasons. Locals used to fetch water from the Sadar Bari pond to meet their water problem for the last 50 years, they said. The water of the pond has now become polluted and unfit for drinking for lack of re-excavation, they added.
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