Floodwater has started receding at different upazilas in Feni, exposing damage it has caused to the agriculture, road communications, fisheries and livestock sectors across the district.
As the flood situation has improved, the authorities resumed taking the Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations and other public examinations on Sunday as per their earlier announcement.
Feni additional deputy commissioner Md Ismail Hossain said that since July 8 about 110 villages in Parshuram, Phulgazi, Chhagalnaiya, Feni Sadar and Daganbhuiyan upazilas, which border the Indian state of Tripura, had been flooded.
Md Mahmud Al Faruque, executive engineer of the local government engineering department in Feni, said that 125 kilometres of roads had been damaged, including 100 kilometres at Fulgazi and 20 kilometres at Parshuram.
About 20鈥�25 per cent of these roads are still under water, and the extent of damage may increase, he added.
Local people alleged that they were facing repeated flash floods for the lack of a sustainable embankment. They demanded that the government build a strong embankment.
The authorities said that five upazilas were badly hit by the flood where several thousand hectors of farmland, fisheries and many livestock were damaged, but the total estimates could be available later.
The embankment along the Selonia, Muhuri and Kahua rivers were badly damaged at 36 points while several kilometres of rural roads remained unusable as the roads were badly damaged by the flood.
Feni deputy commissioner Saiful Islam said that Tk 23.5 lakh had been allocated for immediate relief, and an additional Tk 40 lakh was sought from the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief for buying dry food, baby food and fodder to be distributed among the flood-hit people.
He added that the army was assisting in the relief operations, and the administration was working to restore normalcy.
Officials said that nearly 10,000 people moved to shelter centres as their home were inundated.
Abdul Malek, a farmer from Darbarpur village under Fulgazi upazila, said that the flood had badly damaged all his crops.
鈥業 have no scope for restarting because I am now empty,鈥� he said.
Fulgazi upazila fisheries officer Nazmul Hasan said that 1,305 ponds with fish worth Tk聽3.74 crore in the upazila were flooded.
As the floodwater has started receding, health officials feared spread of water-borne diseases like diarrhoea and skin diseases.
Fulgazi upazila health and family planning officer Golam Kibria said that for the lack of safe water, skin diseases might increase. Snakebite incident may also rise, he said.