The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Bagerhat

Some 2,86,000 people in 12 coastal districts which were severely ravaged by super cyclone Sidr last November are still living in tents or polythene-made huts.

After successfully handling the immediate post-Sidr humanitarian assistance by providing food and non-food items to the victims, the government, development partners and non-government organizations seem to have been failed to provide permanent shelters to the affected people.

Officials in the Shelter Working Group (SWG), a conglomerate of around 200 organisations encompassing government, NGOs, UN agencies, and civil society groups, said only a quarter of the required rehabilitation has been completed in last six months.

Local people and administrations said sufferings of the people might take a serious turn during the upcoming Monsoon season as the polythene huts and tents are not enough to protect them from rains or storms.