At least 73 families of three villages of Mogholhat union in Lalmonirhat sadar upazila had been rendered homeless during the last five days due to the devastating erosion by the River Dharla, according to the union parishad.
The Mogholhat UP chairman, Habibur Rahman Habib, said that about one hundred bighas of cultivable land, six orchards, a mosque and a temple had already gone into the river bed of the Dharla in the last five days.
The erosion-hit people of the villages Badaitari, Nagortari and Majhitari of the Mogholhat union have taken shelter on the government road and relative houses.
The erosion affected people said that they did not want relief, rather they preferred permanent step to check Dharla erosion at Mogholhat.
They said that erosion by the River Dharla had taken a devastating turn at the union during the last five days devouring houses one after another.
Abu Bakkor at village Badaitari, said that his three bighas cultivable land and homestead with ten decimal of land went into the river bed on Friday night. He along with his family members had taken shelter on the embankment protection dam at Mogholhat.
The local people said that the erosion by River Dharala had caused a threat to more over a thousand of homesteads, thousand acres of cultivable land, many orchards and important establishments at the villages.
Mofiz Uddin of village Majhitari, said that the Dharla erosion rendered 27 families homeless in the village by in the last five days until Monday morning.
The sub-divisional engineer of Kurigram Zone Water Development Board, Probir Kumar Ghosh, said that they had already sent a project profile to concerned ministry for sanction fund Tk 10 crore to conduct construction work to check River Dharla erosion permanently at Mogholhat.
Source : New Age
