A portion of the town protection embankment in Faridpur was devoured by the Padma yesterday well before the start of monsoon.About 60 meters of the embankment at Dhalar intersection in Decreer Char union under Sadar upazila of the district washed away, creating panic among the town dwellers.The erosion started at around 10 in the morning. At noon it took a serious turn and around 60 metre basement with boulders and sand bags went down the river.Faridpur Water Development Board (WDB) officials rushed to the spot where protection work was done just a week ago. Rafiq Ullah, executive engineer of the WDB, said swinging current of the river hit the embankment relentlessly causing serious erosion. The embankment was erected under a project in 2004-2005 fiscal year. But it is the first incident of such erosion, he said.We have already started dumping GO textile bags and CC blocks, he added."We hope to protect the town from possible devastation", he said. But locals alleged that the erosion stared before the monsoon as the standard of the recently done 'maintenance work' was not up to the mark.
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