LAKSHMIPUR, Sept 2, 2024 (BSS) - The flood situations in five upazilas of the district are improving as flood water started to recede from the affected areas and the distribution of relief materials continues to the flood-affected people.

At least there are still six lakh people in the district who are stranded by the flood water. As many as 32,000 people have got shelter in shelter centres of the district. Distribution of relief materials continues to the flood-affected people, Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) JP Dewan said.

The district administration has already distributed 800 tonnes of rice, dry food, cooked food, baby food and cow food to the shelter centres.

Various political social organizations, army, students of the anti-discrimination student movement, volunteers, leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), leaders and activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami including district administration continued to distribute the relief materials among the flood victims.

Bilkis Akhtar, executive engineer of Directorate of Public Health Engineering of the district said that safe drinking water is provided from mobile water treatment plants in flood-affected areas.

District Livestock Officer Dr. Kumud Ranjan Mitra said that due to the flood lots of houses were damaged in five upazilas of the district.