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Tangail FAP project: Boon for some, bane for others

By Rafiq Hasan back from Tangail
The Compart mentallza Uon Pilot Project ICPP) a flood protection project tn Tangail was a blessing for those inside it but a cause of more misery for those out side the embankments this
People inside the project area could save crops from floods But those outside the project had experienr ed sweeping floods due to obstructions in the flow of water created by embankments
The CPF under the Flood Action Plan (FAP) protects
13305 hectares of land com prising 40 per cent area of Tangail sadar 1 1 per cent of Deiduar 2 per cent of Basal! and 0 6 per cent of Kalihati thanas
"If all the rivera and canals in these areas were kept open during the rainy season the level of the flood water might not have been so high ‘ said Aminul Islam a tanner of Galar Char, one of the areas outside the project severely affected by floods IhU year
Abdus Salam and Nawab
All Dargi of the same area informed the journalists who were visiting the area that many people outside the em bankments could not harvest •man crops although they planted saplings three times this year They blamed the embankments of the CPP project under Flood Action Plan (FAP-201 for not giving way io flood waters
The adjacent villages of Choto Basalla halier Gona and Chalks were also affected by the flood Abdul Mazid a farmer inside CPP project area said, he and his five brothers har vested about 3 hundred maunds of paddy this year. They did not get 10 mounds of paddy a year on an average during the last ten years from the same lands due to recurrent floods. Mazid said.
Binnafoir Union Parishad Chairman Umed All. former chairman Abdullahel Masud and some villagers who were present during the visit of the journalist on Thursday expressed similar views in favour of the CPP project.
The people living outside the project area are not all against the CPP project. Rather, they expressed willingness to be covered under the project area. Some even expressed annoyance at the campaign against the FAP. done by some NGOs. "They do 'not realise our problems' and needs." Masud said at the Binnafoir Bazar.
Officials of the CPP said
the areas which were affected by regular floods in the past, got some protection this year for the first time.
They however admitted that the areas outside the project were affected "a little more this year due to the C>P embankment. "The CPP is not final. It is a pilot project. We are observing and monitoring the situation." M H Siddiqi, chief engineer of the Flood Coordination Organization (FPCO) said.
Work of the 98 crore taka CPP began in October 1991.
The project area has been divided into 17 blocks to regulate water flow according to needs of different areas, said Salah Uddin Kashem Humayun, project director. All aspects including environment. irrigation, fisheries and day to day needs of the people were considered while taking the project, he said. He also refuted accusations that the CPP caused drought during the dry season.