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Durgapur (Netrokona)

Local Gov

A northern border upazila of Netrokona along the Garo hills frontier, mixing hill-fringe terrain with haor lowland farming.

Wealth rank 155/452 (1 = poorest upazila)

Indicators: Meta RWI (HDX); ERA5-Land; MODIS; Sentinel-5P; VIIRS night-lights; GHSL; Hansen v1.11; CHIRPS v2.0. Exposure: GloFAS v2.1, FABDEM, MODIS LST, ACAG PM2.5, WorldPop 2020.

Problems and issues

  1. poverty A mean Relative Wealth Index of -0.134 places Durgapur in the poorer fourth decile of upazilas, indicating a weak rural household asset base. So what: Low household wealth limits resilience to seasonal income gaps. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)
  2. climate disaster Run-off from the bordering Garo hills feeds rapid flash flooding onto the lowland boro paddy in the pre-monsoon period. So what: Sudden hill run-off can submerge fields before the crop is harvested. Source: Department of Disaster Management
  3. infrastructure Remote border and hill-fringe villages have limited all-weather road connectivity, leaving them seasonally cut off. So what: Isolation raises costs and hampers access to services and markets. Source: Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)

Probable solutions