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BSS, Rangpur

The overall flood situation marked further improvement due to reduced flow of waters from upstream and no rainfall in greater Rangpur and the adjoining northern districts on Tuesday last.

All the displaced people who took shelter in safer places, flood control embankments and high lands in the flood-hit areas of greater Rangpur, have already returned their respective homes, officials said.

Official sources said that improvement of the flood situation would continue in greater Rangpur and other northern districts on the Brahmaputra basin with no possibility of any further floods this season.

The major rivers marked further falls at the points in Kurigram, Rangpur Nilphamari, Gaibandha and Lalmonirhat and the situation continues improving in Jamalpur, Bogra and Sirajganj districts.

There is no flood situation now in Rangpur, Kurigram, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat and Gaibandha districts of greater Rangpur as the floodwaters receded fast, officials in the Water Development Board (WDR) told BSS.

The major rivers and their tributaries were flowing below their respective danger marks at al points in greater Rangpur and adjoining northern districts in the Brahmaputra basin this morning.

Floodwaters also receded from the very low-lying char areas in Chilmari, Rajibpur, Roumari, eastern parts of Illipur and Nageswari upazilas in Kurigram and Fulchhari upazila and its adjoining areas in Gaibandha, the sources said.

The government officials and local disaster management committee. NGOs and some voluntary organisations are working in the affected areas and distributing relief goods and providing assistance for the affected people, the sources said.

The District Administrations have allocated rice and money for the flood-hit areas and those are being distributed among the flood victims.

District relief and rehabilitation Officers of the affected districts told BSS that the administrations have put in their efforts in relief and rehabilitation activities in the flood-hit areas The WDR recorded 35 mm rainfalls at Dalia point in Nilphamari district on Tuesday and there were no rainfalls in other points of greater Rangpur during the period. The WDR sources said the Dharla marked a further fall by 24 cm on Tuesday and was flowing 44cm below the danger mark at Kurigram point yesterday morning.

The Teesta marked falls by 11 am at Kawnia, rose by 20cm at nalia points during the period where the river was flowing below the danger levels by 172cm and 65 respectively yesterday morning.