Bagerhat Correspondent :
In order to protect Bangladesh-India Water Route protocol, it is very important to make Mongla-Ghasiakhali channel navigable but sands those are carried from the Bay of Bengal by the high tides (rising of the sea water) are silted on the bottom of the channel (Mongla-Ghasiakhali) twice in a day.
It is very difficult to make it navigable for all times. That is why all the feeder canals of the channel should be opened and navigable for 24 hours. With this end in view the Government took a special mega project and decided to spend a sum of Tk.706 crs to excavate the channel. A project styled as “Re-excavation of 83 rivers and canals of Bagerhat district (feeder rivers and canals of the channel) and increasing the navigability of Mongla-Ghasiakhali channel” was passed in the ECNEC (Executive Committee of National Economic Council) on January 10 (2017). It is learnt from the Planning Ministry that a sum of Tk.706 crs 40 lakh was allocated with a view to implementing the project. The total amount of the money will be spent from the own fund of the Government. The project will be implemented by the Ministry of the Water Resources affairs through the Water Development Board (WDB). The project that started in the month of December, 2016 is scheduled to be completed within the month of December, 2021. Mongla-Ghasiakhali channel passes through Mongla and Rampal Upazilas in Bagerhat district and falls in the river Panguchi at Ghasiakhali point of Rampal Upazila and the river Panguch meets with the river Baleswar at Fashiatala under Morrelganj Upazila in Bagerhat district. The river Baleswar is the demarcation line between Bagerhat and Pirojpur districts. That means the channel connects the river Pashur in the west with the river Baleswar in the east. In order to implement the project some 83 big and small rivers and canals of the district should be excavated and their total length will be 309.68 kilometers. It is learnt from the Planning Ministry that the high tides (rising of the sea water) of the Bay of Bengal carried huge quantities of sands twice within 24 hours and all those sands were silted up at the bottom of those rivers and canals during the last few years. Moreover, due to the cultivation of shrimps and lobsters there after constructing a number of cross dams over them they (those feeder canals and rivers) were silted up.
In order to protect Bangladesh-India Water Route protocol, it is very important to make Mongla-Ghasiakhali channel navigable but sands those are carried from the Bay of Bengal by the high tides (rising of the sea water) are silted on the bottom of the channel (Mongla-Ghasiakhali) twice in a day.
It is very difficult to make it navigable for all times. That is why all the feeder canals of the channel should be opened and navigable for 24 hours. With this end in view the Government took a special mega project and decided to spend a sum of Tk.706 crs to excavate the channel. A project styled as “Re-excavation of 83 rivers and canals of Bagerhat district (feeder rivers and canals of the channel) and increasing the navigability of Mongla-Ghasiakhali channel” was passed in the ECNEC (Executive Committee of National Economic Council) on January 10 (2017). It is learnt from the Planning Ministry that a sum of Tk.706 crs 40 lakh was allocated with a view to implementing the project. The total amount of the money will be spent from the own fund of the Government. The project will be implemented by the Ministry of the Water Resources affairs through the Water Development Board (WDB). The project that started in the month of December, 2016 is scheduled to be completed within the month of December, 2021. Mongla-Ghasiakhali channel passes through Mongla and Rampal Upazilas in Bagerhat district and falls in the river Panguchi at Ghasiakhali point of Rampal Upazila and the river Panguch meets with the river Baleswar at Fashiatala under Morrelganj Upazila in Bagerhat district. The river Baleswar is the demarcation line between Bagerhat and Pirojpur districts. That means the channel connects the river Pashur in the west with the river Baleswar in the east. In order to implement the project some 83 big and small rivers and canals of the district should be excavated and their total length will be 309.68 kilometers. It is learnt from the Planning Ministry that the high tides (rising of the sea water) of the Bay of Bengal carried huge quantities of sands twice within 24 hours and all those sands were silted up at the bottom of those rivers and canals during the last few years. Moreover, due to the cultivation of shrimps and lobsters there after constructing a number of cross dams over them they (those feeder canals and rivers) were silted up.
