Tipaimukh dam
Altaf Ahmed Choudhury, Dhaka
The effects of withdrawal of river water upstream in India over the last 50 years has resulted in drying up of the Surma river in winter at about the point of its branching off from the Barak river and also all along down the river due to silt deposits caused by slowing current of water. Tipaimukh shall store more water in India supposedly for production of electricity and Bangladesh shall be deprived to that extent. On the other hand, the river cannot accommodate a bigger volume of water in monsoon due to siltation and heavy flood shall be the result.An instance in point is the devastating flood of 2004, which overflowed the dyke on the riverbank as well as the Sylhet-Zakiganj road. India is now building a high dyke on their side of the riverbank, high enough not to disturb them. But this will cause heavy devastation for us in future. In view of the above, I, as a resident of Zakiganj upazila, would appeal to the government to raise the issue with its Indian counterpart and settle it immediately.
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