Nilphamari Correspondent :
With a view to supporting the flood victims in Teesta basin area in Dimla Upazila of the district, non-govt. organisation Brac has taken a massive after flood rehabilitation programme in agriculture sector from on Monday for providing them with different variety of vegetable seeds at free of cost.
Md Raisuddin, District Brac Representative in Nilphamari said that they have launched the programme to provide vegetable seeds to the flood victims who have become homeless and taken shelter to different structures of Teesta irrigation project in Dalia division under water development board (WDB).
About 3000 families of different shoals of Teesta river like char kharibari, purbo kharibari, dakkhin kharibari, satunama, panjiar para, Tepa kharibari and some others have become homeless as their houses were swept away by strong current of flood water, this year, said union parishad chairman of Tepakharibari union Rabiul Islam Shahin.
They have now living miserabely in makeshift houses at flood control dam, silt trap area, helipad, columbia dam, different groans and even on land of local wealthy people and so on, he also said.
Md Raisuddin said, ” By today our mobile teams have distributed packets of vegetable seeds to 1280 flood victims mostly woman and likely to reach to all the enlisted flood victims as each packet contains five kind of seed items like red amaranth (lal shak), bati shak, bindweed (kalmu shak), radish and pumpkin and we’ll continue our efforts further.”
A flood victim Rahima Begum who took shelter at flood control dam in Dalia village with family of five members said that they had no way to arrange seeds for sowing vegetable seeds for own consumption.
“We will sow the seeds in WDB land around our makeshift house on the dam,” she added.
Upazila Agriculture Officer in Dimla Tapon Kumar Roy said that Brac is always co-operating government in rehabilitation work of the flood victims.
470 flood victims get relief in Gaibandha
BSS from Gaibandha adds: A total of 470 flood affected people of Fazlupur union of Phulchhari upazila in the district got Tk 18.80 lakh and other inputs as relief from SKS Foundation here in last two days to mitigate their sufferings.
According to sources, the union of the upazila was flooded in July this year when the river Brahmaputra had crossed its danger mark at Balashighat point inflecting untold sufferings on the locals.
To help mitigate the sufferings of the flood victims, SKS Foundation, a local reputed NGO, stood beside them and distributed cash money and other inputs as relief to them till Monday afternoon in cooperation with Oxfam.
Each of the beneficiaries received Tk 4,000, an aluminum jar, seven pieces of soap, 10 packets of oral saline and two packets of sanitary napkin free of cost.
Earlier, deputy speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Advocate Fazley Rabbi Miah formally inaugurated cash and relief materials distribution activity to the beneficiaries at a function held on the premises of the old upazila parishad on Sunday as the chief guest.
Upazila Parishad Chairman Habibur Rahman and UNO Abdul Halim Tolstoy were present as the special guests while Rasel Ahmed Liton, executive chief of SKS Foundation, presided over the ceremony.
Fazley Rabbi Miah urged the beneficiaries to utilize the money and inputs properly and thanked the organization for distributing cash and relief materials to the flood affected char dwellers.
Head of programmes of SKS Foundation Rajab Ali, senior programme officer of Oxfam Pulock Chakma, public representatives and political leaders including media men were present on the occasion.
