Pradeep Kumar Rat, Special Representative:
2. The city of the river is going to be lost in the river, the river is coming from the river, the city is getting more and more expensive.
The locals have alleged that illegal dredging is going on in at least 12 places in the river and link canal, which is a local, the victim, the local government, the influential BNP leader has claimed that there is an administrative action.
The vast townships of the western wing of the Meghna have already been destroyed in the western part of the three unions, the north Charvanshi, the cemetery and the mosque have lost their lives.
The people of the vulnerable villages including Charkachita, Charindruri, Tunurchar, Jalitarchar are taking their homes elsewhere, somewhere under the shelter of the relatives, some of them are under the open sky. Some of them are going from door to door to the local administration and water development boards, some are preparing a movement.
Abu Saleh Mintu Faraji, Cheetman of Dakshin Charvanshi Unity, told Janakantha, “There is no permanent dam in the western part of the three unions. Every year in the erosion of the Meghna, the farmers” houses, land, dreams are going to the river, but no one listens to us."
Secretary of North Charvanshi Union. Yusuf said, “Meghna's suffering people can be understood only by looking closely. We have known the Water Unnat Board many times, but have not received a solution. If the dam is built, these people will be able to live peacefully in their own land.”
Nahid Uz-Zaman Khan, Executive Engineer of Panel Unastan Board Laxmipur, said that the Altaf Master Mastar Machghat area of North Charbanshi will start construction soon to prevent erosion. In other areas, proposals have been sent to the ministry and legal action will be taken against the sand bandits.
But by that time, how many lives, how many houses, how many memories will go down the bottom of the river. No one knows. Let's point to this reality and see through it—the image of the continuous river encroachment and looting of the river. The status of the Meghna is now the only way to save life, the only way to save life.
