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Flood victims

19 August 2004, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Minhaj Ahmed Uttara, Dhaka
19 August 2004, 18:00 PM
. PHOTO: AFP
Our country has just faced one of the worst floods in history & it seems the authorities are not that concerned about it . We know that our country often gets affected by flood but we still do not know why the government does not take appropriate measures to minimise the losses. It is only the poor people who suffer. Rather than giving small quantity of help to the individuals, why does not the government implement the plans that will help these poor people in rebuilding their lives?
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While the whole country was deluged, people lived on platforms, diarrhoea was breaking out in an epidemic form, and there was bad news from all the affected places. Then we saw a little ray of hope when the government decided to give free seeds to the affected farmers.

The economy of our country stands on agriculture and for this reason it is imperative that the agriculture sector gets the logistic support that it needs at this hour of crisis.

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