In Barguna, the brickyard proprietor reduce the embankment of the Water Construction Board and constructed a highway for their very own receive advantages. On this, right through herbal calamities, water enters thru this course and floods the cropland and homesteads. Even supposing there was once anger some of the locals, no person dared to open their mouths on account of worry.
The title of that brick kiln is ‘SBC’. Vatamalik Barguna Sadar Upazila Awami League President and previous Member of Parliament of Barguna-1 Constituency Suggest Dhirendra Debnath Shambhur Bonjamai Siddiqur Rahman.
In keeping with native assets, a person named Golam Mostafa arrange a brick kiln close to the flood keep watch over dam in Barguna Sadar Upazila’s Kumrakhali village a decade in the past. He then reduce the embankment and built a culvert to facilitate the delivery of sand and soil and different items introduced by means of boats from the river. Because of the development of culverts by means of chopping dams, tidal water enters the locality. It damages vegetation and homes.
Barguna Sadar Upazila Awami League President Siddiqur Rahman purchased the brick kiln two years in the past. He continues to paintings in the similar manner even after the acquisition.
At the floor, uncooked bricks are being taken from one facet of the embankment to the opposite by means of vehicles beneath the culverts made for brick kilns. But even so, 200 toes of bricks and ditches were stuffed in Khakdon River for expanding the fringe of the brick kiln.
Bellal, a resident of Phultala house, advised Jago Information that the culvert was once built handiest to facilitate the transportation of products from the brick kiln. All through floods, the water first entered our village thru this culvert.
A scholar of Phultala house named Tahsin Mallik mentioned, I’ve by no means observed any gate on this culvert since my formative years. Water enters thru right here right through prime tide. We call for the closure of this culvert.
On this regard SBC bricklayer supervisor mentioned. Ripon advised Jago Information, “We purchased the brickyard two years in the past. The former proprietor constructed the culvert 8-10 years in the past for freight. We’ve no longer gained any written understand to not use it. So we’re the use of it.
He attempted to speak to Siddiqur Rahman, the landlord of the brickyard and president of Barguna Sadar Upazila Awami League, however it was once switched off. He has been in hiding for the reason that fall of the Awami League govt on August 5.
Barguna Water Construction Board Govt Engineer. Rakib advised Jago Information that I’ve already given a understand to the landlord to demolish the culvert and convey the dam again to its unique situation. If they don’t repair the embankment throughout the prescribed duration of understand given to us, we can demolish it ourselves.
Nurul Ahad Anik/RH/GKS
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