Different organizations in Dhaka on Monday called for saving people of south-western region from floods and water-logging that damaged their agriculture, households and roads.
The call was made at a press conference jointly organized by Media
Forum for Human Rights and Environmental Development and Citizens in Dhaka from Paikgachha Upazila at the National Press Club.
A similar call was made from a rally organized by Nagarik Sanghati and Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihood in front of the national Press Club on Monady.
Addressing the press conference, Paikgachha Upazila parishad chairman Md Rashiduzzaman said around 20 lakh people of Khulna, Bagerhat and Satkhira districts had been affected by flood and water-logging due to excessive rainfall and silting up of river Kabodak.
As a result, they have taken shelter in schools, colleges and on high lands, leaving their homes and they have been suffering from want of food, drinking water and healthcare services.
Though the government had started relief activities in the affected areas, the succour were too inadequate to meet the demand, he alleged.
He demanded for excavating the Kabodak river to end water-logging and taking measures for sending the affected people back to their homes.
He also called for restoring Khulna-Paikgachha and Khulna-Satkhira road links and compensation for the affected farmers.
MHRED chairman M Mahabub-ul-Islam, executive director Rafiqul Islam Sabuj, Bangladesh Freedom Foundation executive director Sajjadur Rahman Chowdhury and Kabodak Bachao Andolon member-secretary Nikhil Bhadra also addressed the press conference.
Speakers at the rally in front of the press club also demanded for declaring the area as an affected one and punishing the Water Development Board officials for failing to flash out water, exemption of agricultural loans in the affected area.
Chaired by the Nagarik Sanghati general secretary Sharifuzzaman Sharif, the rally was also addressed, among others, by advocate Abed Raja, engineer Enamul Haque and Communist Party of Bangladesh leader Sardar Ruhin Hossain Prince.
Source : New Age
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