Staff Reporter :
The major rivers in the northern region of the country are rising again before previous damage is compensated.
Meanwhile, several hundreds of people in Nilphamari, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat and Sirajganj districts are marooned by flood water and many lost their homes due to extreme river erosion.
According to Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), waters of the Brahmaputra, Jamuna, Ganges and Padma rivers are on rising trend, which may continue in the next 48 hours.
As a result, low-lying areas of Nilphamari, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Sirajganj and Manikganj likely will go under flood water.
The water of Jamuna has increased for the last four days which is causing serious suffering to the people who are living on the river side (Char people).
The farmers who were worried about the future of the seedbed if it would germinates due to lack of water, now these farmers are worried if their seedbeds are flooded with the excessive water of the Jamuna.
Although the weather experts think that still the water is below the danger level, it can increase anytime.
Talking with The New Nation Hasanur Rahman, an official of Water Development Board ( Sirajganj), said on Wednesday, the water flow of the Jamuna river has increased 35 cm and it flows through Sirajganj City Protection Embankment Point which is below the danger level ( 105cm).
Later, it flows from the Kazipur point where the flow increased 38 cm below the danger level 98 cm.
The water of the Jamuna river has increased from the first week of June in the current year.
In view of such a situation, the respective department had issued a warning note in the respective districts.
Earlier, about 8,4,50 people from various upazila under the district including Kazipur, Sadar, Belkuchi, Shahjadpur and Chauhali and also the people from 38 unions were marooned with the flood waters.
“If we follow the records we can see the water level had increased from 23rd July for the third time then the water decreased from Friday but later from Sunday evening the water of Jamuna had started to rise again,” BWDB official said.
However, the water from the same river also increased by 34 cm at Manikganj’s Aricha point in the last 24 hours till Wednesday afternoon.
The river water was flowing 250 cm below the danger level at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, said Faruk Hossain of the Water Development Board in Manikganj.
According to local people, if the water in the Jamuna river continues to increase for the next seven days, and if such a situation continues then low-lying areas of Manikanj will be flooded.
Md Mainuddin, Executive Engineer of Manikganj’s WDB, said the water of Jamuna river has started increasing due to pressure of upstream water.
All the five pontoons of Paturia ferry ghat and all the two pontoons of Aricha ferry ghat has been raised as those were going under water due to rise of 180 cm water in last two days, said Abdus Sattar, Assistant General Manager (AGM-Marine) of Aricha Regional Office of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC).
