@PersonasNonGrata bhai, this guy has little if any clue on how to solve water resources management issues and yet he acts like a hydraulics expert and puts forth 'opinions' that border on the ridiculous. Waterlogging and flooding during intense rain is a natural phenomena in all deltas, even the Mississipi delta in the US, as well as upstream.
It is not the govts. fault. Water Resources Ministry in Bangladesh is way more aggressive on this than any other larger country, including India.
I might not know everything about flood management - but I do know that Bangladesh does far more to resolve flooding issues as a lower riparian country by way of dredging than even India. Bangladesh dredging program is aggressive enough that we have been fabricating our own large and medium size dredgers locally for the last fifteen years, not to mention smaller dredgers in smaller yards. Lately we have started using barge mounted excavators in smaller canals even to maintain navigability.
Dredging going on in Buriganga, Shitalakhya and Turag rivers
Dredging technology provider Vosta LMG, and Karnafuly Shipyard have jointly delivered a total of 10 cutter-suction dredgers (CSD) for the Bangladesh Inland Transport Water Authority (BITWA) and the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB).
The order includes six CSD 450’s for the BITWA and four CSD 500’s for the BWDB.
Vosta LMG and Karnafuly have now delivered a total of 15 cutter-suction dredgers to Bangladesh, with the dredgers used to keep the Bangladesh waterway system navigable.
The dredgers were built at the Karnafuly Chittagong Shipyard where they were commissioned by a joint specialist team, including employees from both Karnafuly and Vosta.
The order includes six CSD 450’s for the BITWA and four CSD 500’s for the BWDB.
Vosta LMG and Karnafuly have now delivered a total of 15 cutter-suction dredgers to Bangladesh, with the dredgers used to keep the Bangladesh waterway system navigable.
The dredgers were built at the Karnafuly Chittagong Shipyard where they were commissioned by a joint specialist team, including employees from both Karnafuly and Vosta. The order includes six CSD 450’s for the BITWA and four CSD 500’s for the BWDB. Vosta LMG and Karnafuly have now delivered a total of 15 cutter-suction dredgers to Bangladesh, with the dredgers used to keep the Bangladesh waterway system navigable. The dredgers were built at the Karnafuly Chittagong Shipyard where they were commissioned by a joint specialist team, including employees from both Karnafuly and Vosta.
One of the largest dredgers in the world built in Bangladesh using IHC Beaver Merwede ToT.
Smaller dredgers built in one of the one hundred odd yards around Bangladesh.
Remember the floods in Bihar last year? Things will only get worse upstream of the Farakka because these schmucks don't spend even one paisa on dredging related activity on their river channels and waterways.
The more they divert the water at Farakka into the skinny Hooghly, the more flooding will happen in Bihar and points upstream. Nature takes its own toll in strange but natural ways.