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SWISS-DELEGATION-RAJSHAHI (with picture)
Swiss delegation visits drought-hit area in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, April 4, 2019 (BSS) – An eleven-member team including a four-
member high level Swiss delegation visited the activities of water resources
management project to see the living and livelihood condition of its
beneficiaries at Barshapara Adibashi village under Godagari Upazila in the
district today.
During the visit, the delegation went round different dwelling houses of
the beneficiaries and talked to them on how they are getting safe drinking
water.
There are 54 ethnic minority poor households with 239 populations at the
village. Only six of the households have small own land, twelve other
sharecroppers and the rests are engaged in selling labours in farming fields.
All of them have been brought under safe drinking water source through
commissioning of a submersible pump with an overhead tank in the drought-
prone locality.
Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Project has installed the
water supply infrastructure.
The project is being implemented in drought affected 39 Union Parishads
and three Pourasavas in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts since 2015 by
DASCOH Foundation and Swiss Red Cross with financial support from Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation- SDC.
Head of South Cooperation Department of SDC Ambassador Thomas Gas and its
Deputy Head Nathalie Semoroz, Director Cooperation Derek George and Senior
Advisor of Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh Suzanne Mueller were the
noted team members.
Principal Scientific Officer of Water Resources Planning Organisation of
Ministry of Water Resources Engineer Rezaul Karim, Chief Executive Officer of
DASCOH Foundation Akramul Haque and Programme Coordinator of IWRM Project
Tanvir Hassan accompanied the delegation.
Akramul Haque told the team that the scheme intends to supply safe
drinking water in those drought-prone areas where acute crisis of drinking
water exists. Its main objective is to supply round-the-year potable water to
all people in the targeted area.
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