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RAJSHAHI, Oct 13: The flood situation in the northern region has remained unchanged. More than 30,000 families in Mohadevpur of Naogaon district have been rendered homeless in the recent floods.
Due to the sudden flash flood and rise of water in the Chalanbeel area, the standing T-Aman paddy on 20,000 hectares of land have been completely damaged.
In Naogaon, all the nine upazilas among 11 have been badly affected by flood. In Mohadevpur Upazila alone, five unions were completely inundated when the bridge on Atrai River in Mohadevpur was washed away.
The affected unions of the upazila are: Enayetpur, Mohadevpur Sadar, Uttargram, Raiga and Sofapur.
Among those, Uttargram and Enayetpur are the most affected unions.
According to the upazila administration, 30,000 families were rendered homeless and took shelter in different schools, colleges, madrasahs, and on bridges, roads and highways. For the flood affected people 50 shelters were opened in private initiatives in the upazila. However, no relief materials from the government have so far reached the flood shelters. As a result, marooned people are passing their days in a miserable condition starving much of the time. They are also facing an acute scarcity of pure drinking water.
With the mouth of hand worked tube wells in the worst affected areas being still under water, marooned people are forced to drink
contaminated water making them extremely vulnerable to various maladies including diarrhoea.
Besides, the overall flood situation in Santahar upazila of Naogaon district has deteriorated further. More than 50 villages in the upazila were affected by flood causing great sufferings to the villagers as well as
disrupting communication. Thousands of hectares of crops went under water. Fish worth over ten million taka have escaped from different water reservoirs. People of the villages, with what they could carry and along with their domestic animals, have taken shelter beside the rail track, schools and rooftops of higher buildings.
District Relief Office sources said, the Adamdighi upazila public health engineering office and the Santahar municipal administration have distributed 20,000 water purification tablets among the flood-affected people. They have also erected a number of sanitary latrines and tube wells but no government relief has so far reached the affected areas. Floodwater has risen alarmingly in Tarash, Singra and Atrai upazilas under Natore district rolling down from Naogaon and Joypurhat districts.
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