Army joins people to remove silt from Kobadak riverbed
Army personnel joined hands with local people yesterday to remove silt from Kabodak riverbed near Magura Bazar in Tala upazila to remove a persisting water-logging problem in Kabodak basin areas.
Earlier, army demolished illegal structures on Kabodak banks from Patkelghata to Magura in Tala upazila, built by encroachers which obstructed normal flow of the river.
As earlier appeals to government to dredge the river to resolve the water-logging problem went unheeded, local villagers started removing silt from the riverbed earlier this month.
Over 2 lakh people in at least 227 villages in Kabodak river basin areas in Tala and Kalaroa upazilas in Satkhira and Jhhikargachha, Manirampur and Keshabpur upazilas in Jessore district remained marooned as flood water can not be drained out because the river is silted.
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