River erosion is the name of terror to the riverbank’s inhabitants. When we hear the words, a picture of some lost and helpless people floats in the corner of our eyes. Every year a vast amount of land in the riverbank’s goes into the riverbed.
From a survey, we know that about 6,000 hectares of land are being merged into the river every year. As a result, thousands of families are losing their homesteads and lands. Roads, ghats, markets, schools, colleges, mosques, and madrasas are disappeared.
How long is the ‘continuous erosion line’ of river erosion in Bangladesh? According to one research, this erosion line is not a village, market, town, or district; it is about 12 hundred kilometers long. According to the Bangladesh Water Development Board, there are about 300 clear erosion-prone areas in different rivers of the country.