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Environmental Crisis of Rangpur City Corporation: a Case Study in Radhakrishnapur and South Binnatari Village

A. T. M. Zinnatul Bassar
Department of Disaster Management, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh

Md. Ahoshan Habib
Department of Disaster Management, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

This research studies the environmental crisis in villages Radhakrishnapur and South Binnatari under Rangpur City Corporation. Although the villages are under the City corporation area, these are deprived of the opportunities and access available for City Corporation. Moreover, the areas are regularly being affected by natural disasters like floods and riverbank erosion. People of the community gave a mixed perception of “Monga”, whether it is prevailing or not and they defined it in their own way. People of the community have a silent conflict with the Army body on land acquisition issues. People have less access to work and a portion migrates to other areas, either inside the city or other cities to find out alternative sources of income. The researchers tried to explore the problems and crises of the people of these two villages so that further initiatives to mitigate these can be taken.

Keywords: Environmental Crisis, Flood, River Bank Erosion, Monga

Location: The villages Radhakrishnapur and South Binnatari, Rangpur city, Bangladesh

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Program Area: Risk Management in Agriculture

Commodity: Weather/Climate

Objectives:

To determine the Environmental Crisis of Rangpur City Corporation: A Case Study in Radhakrishnapur and South Binnatari Village

Methodology:

This paper is created mainly based on primary data including direct survey on the villagers. Here, the villages Radhakrishnapur and South Binnatari were selected purposively from Rangpur City Corporation as these two are familiar disaster-affected areas of the locality that are adjacent to Ghaghat River in the south-west part. 40 people from each village were selected randomly to gather information on environmental crises where people of different ages were included. A transact walk around the village helped to achieve knowledge and information on hazards and disasters as well as socio-economic condition of the people. Some people were informally interviewed in a friendly way to gather information on the actual scenario of the crisis related to the environment. Some other data are collected from different NGO’s working in those villages. Study Area Radhakrishnapur (Ward No-12) and South Binnatari (Ward No-11) are two underdeveloped localities among the 33 wards of Rangpur City Corporation. These two villages are under Rangpur Sadar than a located adjacent to Rangpur cantonment area. The Main Ghaghat River is flowing to the north-eastern part of these two villages and a branch of Ghaghat is flowing inside the south-western part and it ended in the west part connecting Razendrapur village. A part of the South Binnatatari is located in the northern part of Radhakrishnapur. The village named Keranirhat is to the northern part and village named Nazirerhat is to the western part of these two villages.

Source of Information: International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy, 2017; 5(1): 12-18; ISSN: 2330-7528 (Print); ISSN: 2330-7536 (Online)

Article Link (Online Journal): http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/ijepp doi: 10.11648/j.ijepp.20170501.12

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Achievement/Findings:

As the citizen of the city corporation area, local people are lacking proper opportunities. They have to live under standard conditions of life with floods, storms, cold waves, droughts, earthquakes etc. Roads and transportation system are very poor as a city corporation area. They have no sufficient facilities of relief activities during floods and allotment of necessary warm clothes during extreme cold in the winter season. The researchers became very frustrated to see their extremely poor living conditions. So City Corporation authority should concentrate on developing their life condition otherwise it will be ill-judged with them or deprived of them from their fundamental rights.

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