BSS, Manikganj :
The erosion of the Jamuna in three unions of Daulatpur upazila makes about fifty families homeless in last two weeks. More than one hundred acres of crop land also disappeared during these period.
The unions are Charkatari, Bachamara and Baghutia. The most affected areas are Lalpur, Katari, Kathaltuli, Charkatari Mondolpara, Boardghar Bazar and Charkatari Bazar of Charkatari union of Daulatpur upazila. Educational institutions, mosques, madrasas, hatbazars, roads, domestic houses, crop lands including Union Parishad office and land office of the areas are now in danger. About fifty houses including Charkatari High School, Charkateri Bazar, Government Primary School were partly been eroded. Some people of the areas are shifting their houses, cattle sheds and other transferable goods in their rented lands. Some people have taken shelter at the house of their relatives. An elderly man of Charvaranga village Samej Pramanik said they had shifted their house eight times in two decades.
He lost all of his 40 bighs of land and now a day labourer. Alamgir Hossain of Charkatari Boardghar areas are now living in a temporary shed in a rented land.
Abdul Latif, Chairman of Bachamara Union said Water Development Board has taken a project of Tk. 3.5 crore for protection of the erosion of the areas. But about thirty acres of land of his union have already been disappeared.
Abdul Barek Mondol, Chairman, Charkatari union said more than fifty houses including Charkatari Health and Family Welfare Center, two primary schools and crop lands already been eroded of his union. Tozammel Huque Toza, Upazila Chairman of Daulatpur said the people of these areas are living in panic. The erosion affected people are moving from here to there for new shelters.
