‘Save dwellings, farmlands’
People of several villages in Sadar upazila yesterday urged the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to save their dwellings and croplands from severe waterlogging for years.
They raised the demand at a press conference at Mymensingh Press Club.
Speakers at the programme alleged that due to fish farming in 'Gajaria Beel,' a local waterbody under Char Ishwardia union, by a vested quarter for nearly 25 years, the flows of water through different channels to other waterbodies have been blocked, resulting severe waterlogging in nearby villages.
Over 15,000 inhabitants of Char Haripur and its adjacent villages under Char Ishwardia union have to count huge loss this year as Aman paddy on some 1,000 acre and vast tract of vegetable field went under water due to the situation, they said.
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