BSS, Rajshahi :
Some 2,308 families have been identified as affected badly by the devastating storm that hit the city and all nine upalzilas of the district on Sunday evening.
The families will get relief.
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer Aminul Islam here said the district administration has already allocated 30 kilograms of rice for each of the affected families. “We will complete the rice distribution activities by tomorrow (Thursday)”, he added.
Families of five deceased who died in boat capsized incident in Padma river were given Taka 20,000 each. Taka 1.05 lakh in cash were also distributed among the affected people in Katakhali and Puthiya pourasava areas, Aminul Islam added.
Deputy Commissioner Kazi Ashraf Uddin said the extent of loss caused by the nor’wester is being assessed properly. Distribution of relief materials among the affected families has been started. There are adequate relief materials and all the affected families will get those in phases.
Four people were killed and many dwelling houses and standing crops were damaged badly as nor’wester lashed the districts on Sunday evening.
Local met office sources said the velocity of the wind was 90 to 95 kilometres per hour that disrupted power supply totally in the city.
Besides, the storm damaged crops on a vast track of land and uprooted trees of mango in the two districts. The gusty wind along with rainfall started at around 7pm and continued for over 45 minutes on Sunday.
Dr Alim Uddin, Principal Scientific Officer of Regional Fruit Research Station, told the journalists that extent of loss of mango, litchi and other summer fruits caused by the storm might be at least 10 percent.
Meanwhile, Divisional Commissioner Noor-Ur-Rahman and Deputy Commissioner Kazi Ashraf Uddin accompanied by others concerned visited some of the affected areas under Paba Upazila in Rajshahi. They distributed Taka 50,000 in cash among 25 affected people there on Monday.
750 slum people to get skill dev training
Some 750 slum people will get skill development training here for involving them with various post-training income-generation activities for improving their living and livelihood condition. Simultaneously, necessary measures were also taken to develop 75 small and medium entrepreneurs in the slum areas. The promotional activities will be implemented under a project titled ‘Urban Management of Internal Migration due to Climate Change (UMIMCC)’.
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has started implementing the project with an estimated cost of around Taka 82.30 crore for the uplift of the climate-forced migrants.
The project intends to improve the social-economic status of those who are forced to migrate to the city area due to climate change. Under this UMIMCC project, short and long term job oriented training and health care facilities will be provided to the ultra-poor and poor class people and infrastructure will be built in city areas for providing shelter of those people.
RCC authority revealed the information in a daylong entrepreneurship appreciation workshop styled “Demonstrating the Cefe C3 Training Methodology” in the city on Wednesday.
City Mayor Mosaddeque Hossain Bulbul addressed the inaugural session as chief guest while GFA Deputy Team Leader Lutful Kabir, Deputy Director of Department of Social Service Rubina Yeasmin, UCEP Regional Manager Gopal Chandra Mazumder, GIZ Project Adviser Akteruzzaman Rana and its Implementation Officer Engineer Nur Islam Tusser spoke as special guest.
Mayor Bulbul mentioned that the rural poor people with their recurrent disaster exposures are migrating into urban areas. These new comers face a high employment crisis in city and with very poor-quality housing and other well-being further tapping them into a deeper urban poverty cycle.
The urban poverty is highly linked with rural disaster risks. The urbanisation situation, particularly the housing situation in the city is getting more acute with every passing year.
Some 2,308 families have been identified as affected badly by the devastating storm that hit the city and all nine upalzilas of the district on Sunday evening.
The families will get relief.
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer Aminul Islam here said the district administration has already allocated 30 kilograms of rice for each of the affected families. “We will complete the rice distribution activities by tomorrow (Thursday)”, he added.
Families of five deceased who died in boat capsized incident in Padma river were given Taka 20,000 each. Taka 1.05 lakh in cash were also distributed among the affected people in Katakhali and Puthiya pourasava areas, Aminul Islam added.
Deputy Commissioner Kazi Ashraf Uddin said the extent of loss caused by the nor’wester is being assessed properly. Distribution of relief materials among the affected families has been started. There are adequate relief materials and all the affected families will get those in phases.
Four people were killed and many dwelling houses and standing crops were damaged badly as nor’wester lashed the districts on Sunday evening.
Local met office sources said the velocity of the wind was 90 to 95 kilometres per hour that disrupted power supply totally in the city.
Besides, the storm damaged crops on a vast track of land and uprooted trees of mango in the two districts. The gusty wind along with rainfall started at around 7pm and continued for over 45 minutes on Sunday.
Dr Alim Uddin, Principal Scientific Officer of Regional Fruit Research Station, told the journalists that extent of loss of mango, litchi and other summer fruits caused by the storm might be at least 10 percent.
Meanwhile, Divisional Commissioner Noor-Ur-Rahman and Deputy Commissioner Kazi Ashraf Uddin accompanied by others concerned visited some of the affected areas under Paba Upazila in Rajshahi. They distributed Taka 50,000 in cash among 25 affected people there on Monday.
750 slum people to get skill dev training
Some 750 slum people will get skill development training here for involving them with various post-training income-generation activities for improving their living and livelihood condition. Simultaneously, necessary measures were also taken to develop 75 small and medium entrepreneurs in the slum areas. The promotional activities will be implemented under a project titled ‘Urban Management of Internal Migration due to Climate Change (UMIMCC)’.
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has started implementing the project with an estimated cost of around Taka 82.30 crore for the uplift of the climate-forced migrants.
The project intends to improve the social-economic status of those who are forced to migrate to the city area due to climate change. Under this UMIMCC project, short and long term job oriented training and health care facilities will be provided to the ultra-poor and poor class people and infrastructure will be built in city areas for providing shelter of those people.
RCC authority revealed the information in a daylong entrepreneurship appreciation workshop styled “Demonstrating the Cefe C3 Training Methodology” in the city on Wednesday.
City Mayor Mosaddeque Hossain Bulbul addressed the inaugural session as chief guest while GFA Deputy Team Leader Lutful Kabir, Deputy Director of Department of Social Service Rubina Yeasmin, UCEP Regional Manager Gopal Chandra Mazumder, GIZ Project Adviser Akteruzzaman Rana and its Implementation Officer Engineer Nur Islam Tusser spoke as special guest.
Mayor Bulbul mentioned that the rural poor people with their recurrent disaster exposures are migrating into urban areas. These new comers face a high employment crisis in city and with very poor-quality housing and other well-being further tapping them into a deeper urban poverty cycle.
The urban poverty is highly linked with rural disaster risks. The urbanisation situation, particularly the housing situation in the city is getting more acute with every passing year.
