Speakers at a seminar in Khulna on Sunday urged the government for taking effective steps to construct adequate cyclone shelters and making the coastal embankments higher to save the coastal people from cyclones and water surge.
They made the demand at the seminar on ‘Importance of coastal embankment and cyclone shelters for risk reduction of the coastal people’ arranged by Jagrata Juba Sangha with the help of Shapla Nir, Japan and Japan International Cooperation Agency at Circuit House in Bagerhat.
Assistant professor of Urban and Rural Planning department of Khulna University Mostafizur Rahman presented the keynote paper at the seminar.
The speakers said that Bangladesh was one of the most vulnerable countries of the climate change and the coastal zone was the most vulnerable area where natural disasters were occurring frequently for past few years.
The coastal zone lacked of adequate number of cyclone shelters and the embankments were not too high to check the water surge, they said, adding that most of the roads towards the cyclone shelters needed repair and reconstruction.
The people had to suffer at the cyclone centres for adequate arrangement of safe drinking water, toilets and storing agricultural products, the speakers said.
Mostafizur Rahman, in his keynote paper, suggested for establishing adequate cyclone shelters with adequate toilets, rain water harvesters and food grain storing capacity, making at least 15 feet high embankment and strong coordination of different government and non-government organisations for risk and loss reduction during disasters.
Chaired by JJS executive director ATM Zakir Hossain, the programme was also addressed by parliamentary standing committee on social welfare chairman Mozammel Hossain, Bagerhat additional deputy commissioner (general) Shahnewaz Talukder and Shapla Neer Bangladesh country director Adushi Ojima, among others.
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