4-km Moulvibazar road inundated for 3 months
Almost the entire 4kms Jagatpur-Ontehori road beside Kawadighi Haor in Sadar upazila of Moulvibazar has been inundated as the water body overflowed due to downpour, causing immense sufferings to around one lakh people for around three months.
While visiting the area, this correspondent found three to four feet of water on several spots on the roads. Different parts are covered with waterhyacinth.
People were wading through the submerged road. Some were travelling through a boat, which became the only transport.
Manju Chakraborty, a drug trader in Antehori Bazar area, said, “The fare for boat is very high -- Tk 20 for per kilometre.”
Travellers had also suffered before the inundation as “Most parts of the road were broken.”
Many of the villagers live in the town only for easy communication through the road, which ultimately does not bring any advantage to them rather sufferings during the monsoon, he added.
Locals said people from 15 villages use the Jagatpur-Kashimpur road on a daily basis.
Another resident Purnendu Chakrabarty said, “Students cannot go to schools and colleges.”
Moin Miah of Antehori village said the road had been badly damaged before because of the haor water.
Nokul Das, chairman of Fatehpur Union Parishad, said the road was repaired often, but it did not last as the haor water reached there during the monsoon.
Md Abdul Barik, upazila engineer of Moulvibazar Sadar Upazila, said, “The haor is on the both sides of the road which goes under water every year.”
The government undertook “Sylhet Division Sustainable Development Project” in which reconstruction of Jagatpur-Ontehori road is included, said the engineer.
Under the project, the height of the road will be increased so that the haor water cannot reach its surface, he said.
Once the project gets approval from Ecnec meeting, the work will start, he added.
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