Bhabadah people seek remedy from waterlogging

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UNB, Jashore :
People of a community movement that want solution to waterlogging in Jashore’s Bhabadah area on Tuesday urged the authority concerned to implement the tidal river management (TRM) immediately to save several thousand people of Bhabadah from stagnant waters.
The Bhabadah affected areas are – Abhaynagar, Momirampur, Keshabpur and Jashore sadar upazila in Jashore and Phultala and Dumuria in Khulna and Tala upazila in Satkhira districts.
The leaders of the community at a press conference at its office in Jashore town said at least 10 lakh people of 200 villages were directly affected by the water stagnation problem.
Ranjit Bawali, convener of the Bhabadah’s water problem mitigation committee read out the written statement at the conference where Iqbal Kabir Jahid, polit bureau member of Workers Party of Bangladesh, Baikuntha Bihari Roy, Gazi Ahdul Hamid, Abdul Majid Gazi, Chaitanya Kumar Paul and other leaders of the committee were present.
The committee announced to hold protest rally from 25thJuly to 20 August to press home their demand.
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Presided over by Noor Islam, president of the union, the programme was attended among others by Ahsan Kabir, former general secretary, M Ayub, general secretary, Shahid Joy, vice-president, Mostafa Ruhul Kuddus, vice-president, Golam Mostafa Munna, joint secretary and Tariqul Islam Tareq, office secretary.
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