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Fulchhari (Gaibandha)

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A char-dominated upazila on the Brahmaputra-Jamuna in eastern Gaibandha, its inhabited and cultivated sandbars constantly reshaped by the river.

Wealth rank 49/452 (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

water Riverbank erosion along the Brahmaputra-Jamuna continuously consumes Fulchhari's farmland and shifts the location of its habitable chars. So what: Families lose land and homes and must repeatedly relocate. Source: Bangladesh Water Development Board
poverty Fulchhari's mean Relative Wealth Index is -0.279, in the second-poorest decile nationally (rank 49 of 452), reflecting the concentrated deprivation of its char population. So what: Char households have almost no buffer against erosion and flooding. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)
climate disaster Annual monsoon flooding inundates Fulchhari's low chars, destroying crops and cutting off settlements. So what: Recurrent inundation drives displacement and lost harvests. Source: Department of Disaster Management

Probable solutions

Char-focused resilience support combining elevated homestead plinths, flood-tolerant cropping and asset transfers for erosion-displaced households Responsible: Department of Disaster Management / Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) · policy proposal
Targeted riverbank protection and dredging on the most active erosion reaches to stabilise inhabited chars and farmland Responsible: Bangladesh Water Development Board · policy proposal