Lalmohammad Kibria:
The residents of Gomra Guchcha village in Jhenaigati upazila in Sherpur are not doing well. Poverty, misery, and misery are the constant companions of the residents of this village.
It is known that in 2012, a cluster village was built in Gomra village of Nalkura union of Jhenaigati upazila of Sherpur. The upazila administration built this cluster village through the foreign-aided CVRP project. 30 landless and uprooted families were rehabilitated in this cluster village.
There are currently about 200 people living in the 30 rehabilitated families, including young and old, men and women, and children. All the residents of these villages are daily wage laborers. There are also a few beggars and rickshaw pullers.
Talking to Guchch village president Abdur Rahman and general secretary Jonab Ali, along with other villagers, it was learned that although the families have a place to call home, no government employment arrangements have been made for them.
If the residents here do not go to work for a day, the stove in their house does not light. On that day, they have to live in hunger and semi-starvation. They are not lucky enough to get VGD cards, old age and widow allowances, and any other government assistance. During the current winter season, the cold-stricken people of this uprooted cluster village have not even gotten a blanket. As a result, the residents of this cluster village have been in extreme trouble for the past decade.
Not only that, houses built a decade ago have become almost uninhabitable due to lack of renovation.
During the construction of the cluster village, a pond was dug in the Daysara cluster. It does not have dry seasonal water. The water from this pond is used by the residents of the cluster village for various household purposes, including watering livestock and vegetables.
But due to the lack of digging the pond, the residents of Guchcha village are not getting the desired benefits. The local people have long been demanding the renovation, expansion and paving of the roughly two-kilometer old dirt road from Sandhyakura Border Road to Gomra Guchcha village.
But it has not been implemented yet. As a result, the villagers are facing extreme hardships in the movement of agricultural products produced in Gomra village, the supply of wood from the social forest of the Forest Department, and the patrolling activities of the BGB at the border.
Residents of Guchcha village called for urgent solutions to the problems of Guchcha village. When they spoke to Rukunuzzaman, chairman of Nalkura Union, on this matter, he said that he would look into the problems of Guchcha village.
Upazila Executive Officer Ashraful Alam Russell said that preparations have been made to construct brick paving on the one and a half kilometer unpaved road in Sandhyakura and Gomra.
He said that work will be started on an urgent basis. He also said that necessary measures will be taken to solve the problems of Gomra Guch village.
Lal Md. Shahjahan Kibria
Sherpur
February 9
