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Char Khanpur border town. Photo: Our time
Shamser Ali, 90. Sitting on the banks of the Padma River, looking at the water When the little waves are playing in the river. He is looking at that and thinking something in his mind.
Talking to him, it was learned that he would soon have to leave his home and go elsewhere. But Shamsher Ali himself doesn’t know where to go. Because in a few days, your decorated home can be lost in the heart of devastating Padma.
Not just your home, but your entire village can be lost. By breaking her village, Padma will enter the neighboring country of India. Concerned people, including local residents, fear that.
The name of the border village is Char Khanpur. Most of the Khanpur village has been washed away by the erosion of the Padma River. Even a decade ago, 30,000 people lived in this town. Now the residents of Khanpur village number only fifteen hundred. The houses have been taken away by the Padma River. So thousands of people have moved from towns to cities.
There was another village called Katlamari along the border of this village. The village is part of the Murshidabad district in West Bengal, India. That town of Katlamari also almost disappeared due to the erosion of the Padma. There is no farm. There are about 50 acres of fallow land.
Kamrul Islam, a 50-year-old resident of the village, said: “A few years ago there was a paved building here. There were paved roads. There were also big houses. The settlement was of three thousand people. From sowing rice in the field, winter vegetables were grown here. The boys and girls also went to school regularly. But the last sign of Khidirpur, the border pillar, also disappeared into the river last year when the bank of the rough Padma broke.
He further said: “I had 10 bighas of paddy fields in Khidirpur. He had a house of his own. But after losing everything, I now live with my family in a hut on someone else’s land in Khanpur. Seeing the erosion of the Padma, it is understood that the houses of Khanpur village will also disappear in the next monsoon season. Then this town will not exist.
Abdul Mannan, a resident, said: “If the government had built the embankment, there would not have been so much demolition. We want to keep our Vita-Matituku alive. We do not want this land to disappear and go to India. The amount of erosion that occurs during the rainy season will soon disappear. Before this government it handed over 2,500 houses. That house, that house disappeared. We have survived many difficulties.
An old man named Kamal Hossain said: ‘We are all farmers in this village. We grow rice, lentils, kalai. We take the vegetables we grow to market. Most of their earnings go to renting boats or trawlers. It takes about two hours to go from this village to the city of Rajshahi. The rental of boats or trawlers is also much higher.
He added: ‘Since the number of people in the village is less. So there is no local market. Everything must be brought to Rajshahi.
BGB Khanpur camp commander Manik Debnath expressed similar fears. He said: ‘Most of this village has been destroyed by Padma. As a result of such a collapse in the future, even this small place may disappear. So this town may not exist at all.
The BGB official said: “As a result of the demolition, we may not have this camp. And if this part breaks, the next place is India. Then the river will enter India through the village.
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