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Worst floods

22 July 2004, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Romeo Ahmed, Central Road, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
22 July 2004, 18:00 PM
. PHOTO: AFP
Floods this year are set to break the record of 1988. With the current rain fall trend and the passage of overseas rain water making way through our shallow rivers, it is almost certain that we are going to experience a flood of life time. But very surprisingly the peoples' government is yet to be touched by this impending havoc. As if everything is normal, smooth and fine.

Almost 80 to 90 percent of our total population is likely to be affected directly or indirectly. Sylhet International Airport is already out of operation. It is not sure how long ZIA will remain above water. Communication within the country is already seriously disrupted and communication with the outside world is under threat.

I was a schoolboy when the flood of 1988 inundated about 80 percent of our country. I thought it had been a good lesson for our policy-makers and rulers. I thought they would concentrate on fighting the flood more realistically and chalk out a long term plan to protect poor people from the havoc.

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But nothing has been done 16 years after.