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Paturia ferry services resume

Star report
The ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route resumed yesterday after six days of service disruption.
Launch and speed boat services on Shimulia-Keorakanda route also resumed after 24 hours as the weather situation improved.
Ferries named Keramat Ali, Enayetpuri and Shahjalal loaded with buses and trucks started from Paturia around 3:00pm and reached Daulatdia ferry terminal safely.
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) suspended ferry service on the route on Saturday morning after three landing stations out of four at Daulatdia ferry terminal in Goalunda upazila in Rajbari district were damaged by strong river currents.
Services were resumed after three of the landing stations were made usable, said Abdus Sattar, manager (marine) of BIWTA at its Aricha office.
BIWTA and Rajbari roads and highway department repaired the damages, said Nijam Uddin Pathan, executive engineer of BIWTA. Landing station no-4 was ready around 9:30pm on Monday and no-2 was ready on Wednesday night while the landing station no-3 was ready at around 1:30pm yesterday, he said.
“We could not start repairing landing station number-1 due to strong river currents," he said.
However, the 182 feet-long approach road at landing station no-4 is itself risky for movement of vehicles because of the strong currents in the river and rain that is causing water to run over to the roads. On the other side, the 50 meter long area between landing station-4 and -3 is also going under water.
The roads and highways department is struggling to check the erosion and water rise by dumping sandladen sacks at the affected points.
The launch service on Paturia-Daulatdia and Aricha-Kazirhat routes resumed yesterday morning after 36 hours of disruption due to bad weather. Earlier BIWTA had suspended launch services here to avoid any accident, said Md Faridul Islam, assistant director (traffic) of BIWTA.
Our Munshiganj correspondent reports, the launch and speed boat services at Shimulia-Keorakanda resumed yesterday morning.
But a large number of vehicles remain stranded on both sides of the ferry ghat. The pressure on Shimulia-Keorakanda ferry service has been high because the ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route remained suspended for six days.
Around 400 vehicles are still waiting at both sides of the ghat.