Rally urging speedy implementation of dam along Jamuna

Selim Reza from Sirajganj :

The leaders and activists of Anti-discrimination Students Movement along with the river erosion victims in Sirajganj staged demonstrations including rally at Hatpanchil Baza’ar area in Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj district on Thursday demanding rapid implementation of a project taken to protect the embankment of the Jamuna River from Brahmangram to Hatpanchil involving at around Tk 647 crore. The demonstrators also held a rally at Hatpanchil area and formed a human chain on the bank of river, where the erosion has taken serious turn due to strong current of the river.
The speakers claimed that, hundreds of people in several villages including Brahmangram, Jalalpur, Arkandi, Monakosa, Panchil and Hatpanchil area have already become displaced due to onslaught of Jamuna erosion.
Many people along with their family members have shifted their homesteads to safer places, while many others have been leading miserable life under the open sky after losing their homesteads by the devastating erosion. Not only that, much more homesteads, croplands and installations in the area are now under threat of erosion.
The speakers further said, “If the project work is completed within the scheduled time, many people and their assets will save from the erosion in future. Otherwise, they will face hardship due to unbridled clutch of Jamuna erosion. This is why; they urged the concerned contractors and officials of the WDB to complete the project work in time.