Protect Ashrayan families from erosion

THE RELEVANT AUTHORITIES SHOULD TAKE EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO COMBAT EROSION TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE LIVING IN ASHRAYAN PROJECTSLS

It is worrying to note that over the past month, even the shelter homes built for erosion-affected families under the Ashrayan project suffered continued damages, with many eventually getting washed away under the relentless erosion by the Meghna River in Sadar upazila. The government undertook the Ashrayan-2 project in 2010 for providing shelter to around 2.50 lakh families at a cost of Tk 4,840.28 crore, which is scheduled to be completed by 2019. An earlier version was initiated in 1997, after the Awami League first came to power under Sheikh Hasina.

Ashrayan Project, one of the 10 priority projects of the present government, has turned into an evident means of alleviating poverty of the people who once passed their days in extreme miseries after becoming victims of disasters like cyclone, river erosion and landslides. The project has ended economic vulnerability of many homeless families by providing them with shelters and necessary financial assistance to rebuild their life.

As the project now targets the impoverished people of the whole country, by aiding them to build their shelter with a means of income generation can also check the displacement of people from one place to another.

Natural calamities like flood, erosion and drought uproot many people in the country almost every year. The victims find no other alternative but to migrate to cities and towns for survival. These rootless people add to the population of cities and towns that are already overburdened with millions of people.

There are scores of people living in rural areas. Majority of them do not have arable lands but they have patches of land where they are living after making shacks or shanties. For want of financial support they cannot build sustainable dwelling houses there. These people should be provided with monetary allocation or bank loans on easy terms and conditions so that they can build sustainable dwelling houses.

River erosion has washed away many ambitious projects of the country during the past few years. Successive governments have attempted to tame erosion with very little success. If projects are damaged or washed away by erosion, it is a sheer drainage on the public money. The relevant authorities should take effective measures to combat erosion to protect the people living in the Ashrayan projects.

 

 

Protect Ashrayan families from erosion

THE RELEVANT AUTHORITIES SHOULD TAKE EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO COMBAT EROSION TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE LIVING IN ASHRAYAN PROJECTSLS

It is worrying to note that over the past month, even the shelter homes built for erosion-affected families under the Ashrayan project suffered continued damages, with many eventually getting washed away under the relentless erosion by the Meghna River in Sadar upazila. The government undertook the Ashrayan-2 project in 2010 for providing shelter to around 2.50 lakh families at a cost of Tk 4,840.28 crore, which is scheduled to be completed by 2019. An earlier version was initiated in 1997, after the Awami League first came to power under Sheikh Hasina. Ashrayan Project, one of the 10 priority projects of the present government, has turned into an evident means of alleviating poverty of the people who once passed their days in extreme miseries after becoming victims of disasters like cyclone, river erosion and landslides. The project has ended economic vulnerability of many homeless families by providing them with shelters and necessary financial assistance to rebuild their life. As the project now targets the impoverished people of the whole country, by aiding them to build their shelter with a means of income generation can also check the displacement of people from one place to another. Natural calamities like flood, erosion and drought uproot many people in the country almost every year. The victims find no other alternative but to migrate to cities and towns for survival. These rootless people add to the population of cities and towns that are already overburdened with millions of people. There are scores of people living in rural areas. Majority of them do not have arable lands but they have patches of land where they are living after making shacks or shanties. For want of financial support they cannot build sustainable dwelling houses there. These people should be provided with monetary allocation or bank loans on easy terms and conditions so that they can build sustainable dwelling houses. River erosion has washed away many ambitious projects of the country during the past few years. Successive governments have attempted to tame erosion with very little success. If projects are damaged or washed away by erosion, it is a sheer drainage on the public money. The relevant authorities should take effective measures to combat erosion to protect the people living in the Ashrayan projects.