Staff Correspondent<\/p>\n
About 500 metres of Patuakhali’s Kuakata beach, the lone tourist attraction of the district, was washed away due to tidal surge caused by recent Cyclone Yaas.\u00a0 Around 56 kilometres of the district’s different flood control dykes have also been damaged. Water Development Board (WDB) said it will need Tk 53 crore to repair these dams.\u00a0 Water was flowing 74 cm above the danger level in the main rivers like Andhar Manik, Ramnabat and Payra rivers on May 26. But the water started to recede, our Patuakhali correspondent said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Md Halim Salehee, executive engineer, Patuakhali WDB, said 56 km of different embankments, including seven km of the most vulnerable dam in Laluar in Kalapara upazila, have been damaged.\u00a0 Three kilometre banks of different rivers were devoured by the sea while 1.5 km of the river bank protection has been destroyed, he said.\u00a0\u00a0 The higher authorities have been informed about the damages and necessary measures will be taken if fund is allocated for the repair, he added.\u00a0 Rangabali upazila, an isolated island, has no embankment for protecting its several chars including Char Anda, Chalitabunia and Nayar Char. As a result, these coastal areas are always inundated by the tidal water.\u00a0\u00a0 Due to the effect of cyclone Yaas, the tidal water gushed in these areas and flooded the croplands, houses and roads, causing suffering to six lakh residents.\u00a0 A hotel, built on the beach on the west side of Zero Point, has also collapsed. At least 20 fishermen’s houses on the west side of the hotel have been flooded due to the tidal surge, said a fisherman Sumon Sheikh.\u00a0 At least 200 temporary shops in the Zero Point area have disappeared following the impact of “Yass”.\u00a0 In this regard, Mayor of Kuakata municipality Anwar Hossain said, the impact of cyclone “Yaas” was more than last year’s cyclone Ampan.\u00a0 Motaleb Sharif, general secretary of the Kuakata Hotel-Motel Owners Association, said the cyclone had damaged Kuakata tourist area.\u00a0 Permanent barricades need to be built on an emergency basis to protect Kuakata from tidal surges, he said.\u00a0 If it’s damaged further, domestic and foreign tourists may lose their interest in visiting the spot, he added.\u00a0 Local lawmaker for Patuakhali-4 Md Mahibbur Rahman visited the devastated area of Kuakata yesterday afternoon. He said permanent measures were being taken to protect Kuakata from natural disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Staff Correspondent About 500 metres of Patuakhali’s Kuakata beach, the lone tourist attraction of the district, was washed away due to tidal surge caused by recent Cyclone Yaas.\u00a0 Around 56 kilometres of the district’s different flood control dykes have also been damaged. Water Development Board (WDB) said it will need Tk 53 crore to repair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialherald.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}