
Desk Report: A citizen’s dialogue on ‘possible actions to resolve waterlogging during the monsoon season’ has been held in Satkhira.
The dialogue was organized by Bangladesh Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK) at the Mangrove Hallroom in Satkhira city on Wednesday (June 17).
In the dialogue, the speakers made 7 recommendations including bringing the Satkhira municipal area under a fully integrated drainage network and connecting the city’s drainage with the Pransayer Canal, closing all types of commercial fishing enclosures within the municipal area and making it mandatory to have ‘out drains’ for water drainage in case of enclosures, freeing the canals, beels and rivers of the entire district and removing all types of nets and illegal cross-border dams, quickly activating all useless sluice gates in the district and completing all preliminary preparations for water drainage, restoring the traditional and normal flow of tides through the proper use of sluice gates in the Betna and Morichchap rivers, re-excavating the interconnections between the Ichamati, Morichchap, Kholpetua, Betna, Shalikha and Kapotaksh rivers to activate water flow, and making government-adopted development projects local environment-friendly and climate-tolerant.
The speakers said, “We don’t want to drown in water logging anymore. If we don’t take action now, we will have to drown again. So we have to take action before water logging occurs.”
The dialogue was chaired by Satkhira District Green Coalition President Abu Affan Roz Babu, and Satkhira Sadar Upazila Executive Officer Arnab Dutta was the chief guest.
The dialogue was addressed by civic leader kalayan Banarjee, Ali Nur Khan Babul, BARCIK Urbanist Jahangir Alam, civic leader M Kamruzzaman, Mostafizur Rahman Ujjal, Farid Ahmed Moyna, Ahsanur Rahman Rajib, Green Coalition Joint Secretary M. Belal Hossain and Adv. SM Biplob Hossain, Asaduzzaman Sardar, Satkhira Youth Water Committee President Md. Hossain Ali, President of Youth Adaptation Forum Ibrahim Khalil, Hridoy Mandal of Education, Culture and Diversity Protection Team, Ifti Jamil, Jahanara Khatun, resident of Baddipur Colony, Ershad Ali of Kazipara and others.
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