The parliamentary standing committee on the food and disaster management ministry on Sunday expressed deep concern over the floods in the country's southern region and asked the Water Development Board to take effective measures to drain out the water from the inundated areas in Khulna and Satkhira districts.
The committee, at a meeting, observed that the flood situation in the southern districts had deteriorated due to the WDB's failure to flush out the water, said meeting sources.
Committee member Narayan Chandra Chanda, elected from the Khulna-4 constituency, raised the issue at the meeting and said that the people of the flooded districts were suffering from dire shortage of food due to lack of adequate relief, said sources.
The committee, after discussing the flood situation, recommended that the government should supply adequate relief to people of the flood-affected areas.
They also said that the sluice gates in the affected areas were in bad condition and asked the concerned authority to begin renovation without delay, said sources.
Food and disaster management minister Abdur Razzak, who was present at the meeting, claimed that the government was keeping a close watch on the flood situation across the country and had already allocated 26,000 tonnes of wheat for the flood-hit areas of Khulna and Satkhira.
He also said that the water resources ministry should take immediate measures to drain water from the flood-affected areas.
The meeting, presided over by committee chairman Sayedul Haque, was attended by committee members Narayan Chandra Chanda, Mozahar Ali Prodhan and Akram Hossain Chowdhury.
Source : New Age
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