A section of contractors are feasting on the current flood, allegedly in connivance with some dishonest Water Development Board (WDB) officials.

The contractors are drawing hefty amounts by submitting 'vague bills' for dumping stones and sandbags to 'repair' breaches in riverbanks, it is alleged.

"Who counts how many stones are dumped into water?" said a contractor at Kajipur while talking to this correspondent.

And, breaches are not lacking.

The 76-km main flood control embankment in Sirajganj breached at Baoikhola and Shubhagachha in Kajipur last year.

This year, flood washed away about one kilometre of the embankment and damaged about and 25 kilometers, said sources.

Breach in embankments by the mighty Jamuna is almost a regular phenomenon because renovation is not done properly in right time, they said. The Jamuna can be blamed for all the evils.

But WDB officials have a ready answer for this. The dams could not be repaired timely for 'want of funds', said Anwar Hossain, sub divisional engineer of WDB.

However, Ratankandi Union Parishad Chairman Golam Mustafa blamed the BNP-led alliance government for not initiating repair of the dam in time.

The dam was built at the initiative of Awami League lawmaker and former home minister Mohammad Nasim MP, elected from Kajipur constituency, he claimed.