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Dredging of Matamuhuri River rekindles hopes of riverside people
Cox’ Bazar Correspondent :
With the initiative to start dredging work of the Matamuhuri River, local fishermen are looking forward to a regeneration of fishing that had become stagnant for long as the river almost died out.
The move has rekindled the hopes of thousands of people living nearby as the resurgence of the water flow in the river would bring back the prospects of a bountiful of farm output as well as abundance of open water fishes as they had experienced before.
Matamuhuri River project, a viable venture has been taken taken up with an attempt to make the riverine people self-reliant by thwarting river erosion. The project will help increase the navigability of the river, sources said.
Water Development Board (WDB) is going to launch a massive dredging work in River Matamuhuri under a pilot project to resolve wide-ranging problems across river belt areas in the best interest of sustainable socio-economic development in the entire zone, sources informed.
A long time ago Matamuhuri was a turbulent river, but gradually it turned into almost a dead river.
After the end of monsoon, navigability problem becomes a regular phenomenon which affects plying of goods carrying water vessels through the river route. Besides the hazardardous situation fall serious derogative effect on fisheries in a river which once remained traditionally famous for its fish resources, locals said.
The problem is being aggravated due to large scale destruction of forests and hills with the help of explosives in search of stone collection. All these unauthorised ventures mostly by powerful section have been affecting the entire areas. The direct and indirect result of the destruction is the causative factor for the emergence of innumerable smaller islands on the river bed. The growing islands on river bed through deposit of silted alluvial soil during moonson blocks normal water flow causing river erosion on both sides, local people also informed.
Detailing the destructive effect on overall agricultural activities, especially paddy and other winter crops, Agriculture Officer of Chakoria Upazila M. Atiqullah expected that improvement of irrigation facilities will help farmers to become self-reliant.
Executive Engineer of WDB, Cox’s Bazar M. Shabibur Rahman disclosed that massive dredging work is under consideration initiating a project to be launched soon. The project will facilitate wide-ranging changes to boost up local agriculture, he maintained.
Mayor of Chakoria Upazila Alamgir Hiossain said every year Matamuhuri river devours many homesteads vast areas of croplands, rendering thousands of families homeless.
The dredging project of the river will minimise the erosion problem, he hoped. He also asked the concerned people of the project to complete the project as soon as possible.
With the initiative to start dredging work of the Matamuhuri River, local fishermen are looking forward to a regeneration of fishing that had become stagnant for long as the river almost died out.
The move has rekindled the hopes of thousands of people living nearby as the resurgence of the water flow in the river would bring back the prospects of a bountiful of farm output as well as abundance of open water fishes as they had experienced before.
Matamuhuri River project, a viable venture has been taken taken up with an attempt to make the riverine people self-reliant by thwarting river erosion. The project will help increase the navigability of the river, sources said.
Water Development Board (WDB) is going to launch a massive dredging work in River Matamuhuri under a pilot project to resolve wide-ranging problems across river belt areas in the best interest of sustainable socio-economic development in the entire zone, sources informed.
A long time ago Matamuhuri was a turbulent river, but gradually it turned into almost a dead river.
After the end of monsoon, navigability problem becomes a regular phenomenon which affects plying of goods carrying water vessels through the river route. Besides the hazardardous situation fall serious derogative effect on fisheries in a river which once remained traditionally famous for its fish resources, locals said.
The problem is being aggravated due to large scale destruction of forests and hills with the help of explosives in search of stone collection. All these unauthorised ventures mostly by powerful section have been affecting the entire areas. The direct and indirect result of the destruction is the causative factor for the emergence of innumerable smaller islands on the river bed. The growing islands on river bed through deposit of silted alluvial soil during moonson blocks normal water flow causing river erosion on both sides, local people also informed.
Detailing the destructive effect on overall agricultural activities, especially paddy and other winter crops, Agriculture Officer of Chakoria Upazila M. Atiqullah expected that improvement of irrigation facilities will help farmers to become self-reliant.
Executive Engineer of WDB, Cox’s Bazar M. Shabibur Rahman disclosed that massive dredging work is under consideration initiating a project to be launched soon. The project will facilitate wide-ranging changes to boost up local agriculture, he maintained.
Mayor of Chakoria Upazila Alamgir Hiossain said every year Matamuhuri river devours many homesteads vast areas of croplands, rendering thousands of families homeless.
The dredging project of the river will minimise the erosion problem, he hoped. He also asked the concerned people of the project to complete the project as soon as possible.
