DINAJPUR: Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has started work on constructing a 32-kilometer Karatoa River protection embankment in Dinajpur district at a cost of taka 25 crore, reports BSS.
Under the second phase of the project, the BWDB will also set up three regulators.
The work on the right bank protection embankment began on Sunday and would be finished during the current financial year, said Assistant Engineer Abdus Sattar.
The BWDB has decided to construct a 72-kilometer embankment on the right bank of the river to protect agricultural lands of three upazilas of the district from the water logging and flood at a cost of Taka 62 crore.
The work on 40 kilometers embankment was completed in the last financial year at a cost of Taka 37 crore, BWDB sources said.
Five regulators have also been set up in the first phase under the project, the sources added.
On completion of the 72-kilometer embankment under the project, about 20,000 acres of agricultural landofParbatipur,Nawab-ganj and Ghoraghat upazilas of the district would be saved from the water logging and flood.