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Flood situation in Sylhet, Moulvibazar unchanged

By Staff Correspondent
The flood situation in Moulvibazar and Sylhet districts has remained unchanged while It has improved slightly in Habt-ganj.
The rivers in Sylhet district registered slight rise due to rainfall on Sunday. The Manu at Chadnighat was flowing 39 cm above danger level. The Surma was flowing 60 cm and 3 cm above danger marks at Sylhet and KanaigHat respec-tiveiy. The Kushiara at Sheola
was flowing 8 cm above danger level. But Khowai was flowing 2 cm below danger level.
The flood situation in Bala-ganj upazila of Sylhet remained unchanged. The road connection with the upazila was still cut off. Diarrhoea and dysen-tery have spread In all the 11 upazilas of the district. A total of 107 medical teams are working in the affected areas. Nearly one and a half lakh people have been affected by
the flood.
Moulvibazar
In Moulvibazar. the flood situation Is Improving slowly. Water has receded in Kamal ganj, Kulaura, Baralekha and -Rajnagar upazilas. Over seven lakh people have been affected In six upazilas of the district. Ninety-eight cases of diarrhoea and 262 cases of dysentery were reported on Sunday from different upazilas. District
Flood Control Room said. Sixty-nine medical teams were working in the affected areas.
Habiganj
The flood situation in Habiganj is improving gradually. The Khowai river was flowing 2 cm below danger level.
Flood Forecasting Cell of Water Development Board said the Surma at Sylhet and Sunamganj. the Kushiara at Sheola, the Manu at Moul-
vibazar and the Khowai at Habiganj are likely to rise. The flood situation in the greater Sylhet district is likely to deteriorate in the downstream of the Surma and the Kushiara.
Our Sylhet Correspondent S B Das adds : The government is going ahead with plans for agricultural rehabilitation to offset any food shortage in Syl het district.
Tariqul Islam. State Minister for Social Welfare and
Women Affairs. who is coordinating the relief work tn Syl-het and SunamganJ districts told The Dally Star Saturday evening at local Circuit House when his attention was drawn to widespread apprehensions of a famine due to loss of crops by flood He said as the first step road communication are being quickly restored with upazilas and breaches on the upper Surma and Kushlara dykes are being repaired He said 3540 tons of seed are be Ing arranged for transplant aman and agricultural loans of farmers being reduced to facll Hate production of crops In the district after the fioodwa ter recedes Besides repairing 1647 kilometres of damaged road, and 400 kilometres of bunds the government is re placing bridges which have been washed away with bally bridge and culverts He hoped that road communication with all the upazllas would be re stored in a week and breaches on dykes will be closed within a few days where work has al ready been undertaken with 330 tons of wheat allocated for
Demonstrations and gheraos have taken place tn some areas to protest made quate rebel
The government have so far provided 22000 maunds of rice and 7 25 metric tons of wheat to 13.00.000 affected
According to the Minister government opened 167 shel •ere where about 20 thousand
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people sheltered there The affected people need bamboo h^TbH^T th^'rXkTXft to their homestead