River erosion leaves 50 families homeless

MANIKGANJ, June 20 (BSS): The erosion of the Jamuna in three unions of Daulatpur upazila makes about 50 families homeless in the last two weeks.

More than hundred acres of crop land also disappeared during these periods.

The unions are Charkatari, Bachamara and Baghutia.

The most affected areas are Lalpur, Katari, Kathaltuli, Charkatari Mondolpara, Boardghar Bazar and Charkatari Bazar of Charkatari union of Daulatpur upazila.

Educational institutions, mosques, madrasahs, bazars, roads, houses, croplands including union council office and land office of the areas are now in danger.

About 50 houses including Charkatari High School, Charkateri Bazar, Government Primary School were partly been eroded.

Some people of the areas are shifting their houses, cattle sheds and other transferable goods in their rented lands.

Some people have taken shelter at the house of their relatives. An elderly man of Charvaranga village Samej Pramanik said they had shifted their house eight times in two decades.

He lost all of his 40 bighs of land and now a day labourer.

Alamgir Hossain of Charkatari Boardghar areas are now living in a temporary shed in a rented land.