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Some 7m coastal people yet remain vulnerable

From Our Correspondent
BARISAL. June 20 Necessary measure* arc yet lo be taken by the government lo save about 70 lakh people ol Ihc vast coastal areas from cy clone disaster and tidal bon-
Lakhs ol people from the Sundarbans area to Teknal ol Cox's Bazar arc living In the area a* the hostage* ol the nat ural disaster Al present, the people ol Ihc area get only the weather signals for cyclone preparedness But during the cyclone or disaster, they hardly get any shelter tn save themselves from the disaster
Practically, Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) has only signalling »y» tern network bul there is no »urh carrier by which they can shift Ihe people In time lo save them from natural calamities though there are 20.000 workers In CPP
It can be mentioned here that CPP was formed after the
cyclone and tidal bore of 1970. Later, about 70 lakh people from the coastal areas were brought under this cyclone preparedness network
More areas like Sa rank ho la of Bagerhat, Mathbaria of Ptrojpur and llanshkhull of Chittagong arc being brought under this programme
It Is learnt that people of some offshore islands of Bhola, Chittagong and Cox's Bazar are the worst affected To save them particularly during Ihc calamities, there arc no ar rangement except some cy clone shelters which are also nol adequate according to requirement
It Is gathered that govern ment built 23H cyclone shcl lers In the coastal areas after the unprecedented disaster In 1970 Besides. Bangladesh Red Crew-ent Soek-ly also bulll 62 cyclone shelters and 157 < lay klllas to save the catlkhcads
and other animals
Bul It Informed that due lo absence of maintenance, conditions of the centres and kll Ins haw become-very bad
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society is also constructing 40 more cyclone shelters tn different areas of the coastal areas. Three hundred more multipurpose shelters are being built with the financial assls tance of Saudi government and other governments with the technical assistance of the BUET
The Relief and Rehabilitation department has complc led the rcexcavatlon of ten canals In nine upazilas of Barisal district recently under Special Canal Digging Programme of the $>wrnmcnl
The upazilas under this programme are Barisal Sadar Bakerganj, lltzla. Muladt. Me hendlganj, Babuganj. Banarl-naara Golirrwil and AfaxKhnm