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Measures taken for protecting riverbank erosion: Zahid
SHARIATPUR, July 27, 2019 (BSS) – State Minister for Water Resources Zahid Faruq today said the government has taken initiatives for protecting vulnerable areas from riverbank erosion.
“We have distributed relief materials among riverbank erosion victims as part of our rehabilitation process… The government has identified 66 riverbank-prone areas so that people living in those areas could take precautionary measures to prevent possible damages,” he told a view exchange meeting in Naria upazila under the district.
Zahid said as Bangladesh is a flood-prone country, riverbank erosion is a common phenomenon here.
Adequate precautionary measures including issuing riverbank prediction messages alongside maintenances of flood protection dams should be taken to prevent lives and property from riverbank erosion, he added.
Organizing Secretary AKM Enamul Haque Shamim, Director General of Bangladesh Water development Board Mahfuzur Rahman, engineers and officials, among others, attended the meeting with deputy commissioner Kazi Abu Taher in the chair.
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