Sidr-hit families leave as houses become unfit
Sixteen Sidr affected families have left their houses built under Ashrayan project at Hajipur village in Kalapara upazila as their abodes have become unfit to live in.
Four other Sidr-hit families are still staying there as there is no alternative.
The walls and roofs of the 16 houses were looted after the families left the project area. The pillars of the houses have also become damaged.
The lone tube-well has been out of order for long while the toilets are unfit to use, Rezaul, a resident, said, adding that if the authorities concerned do not repair these houses immediately they also might shift elsewhere.
Sixteen families have already left the houses as they cannot live in those, he said.
Widow Salina Begum is staying in her house with her son Shahin and daughter-in-law Ayesha.
“We are living here as there is no alternative because we are landless and helpless. Before coming here we lived in a hut on a nearby flood control dyke, but that was blown away by cyclone Sidr,” she said.
“At the beginning we felt comfortable here, but now we have to face great suffering as rainwater comes in through the holes in the tin roof,” she added.
Kalapara Upazila Project Implementation Officer (PIO) Sumon Devnath said 20 houses in two separate barracks were built for the victims of cyclone Sidr in the 2009-10 fiscal year at a cost of Tk 26 lakh funded by Japan.
Upazila Chairman Md Motaleb Talukder said steps will be taken after assessment of the damages.
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