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Goalandaghat (Rajbari)

Local Gov

The Padma-bank upazila containing the Daulatdia ferry ghat, a historic rail-and-ferry transit gateway acutely exposed to river erosion.

Wealth rank 272/452 (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

climate disaster As the seat of the Daulatdia ferry ghat on the Padma, the upazila bears the district's most severe river-bank erosion, which regularly consumes the ghat approaches, farmland, and homesteads. So what: The transit gateway and riverside communities lose land and infrastructure each monsoon. Source: Bangladesh Water Development Board
infrastructure The busy highway-ferry corridor concentrates traffic and built-up growth onto erosion-prone floodplain around the ghat. So what: Critical transit infrastructure sits on unstable, shrinking riverbank. Source: Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)

Probable solutions

Construct and maintain bank-protection revetments and geo-bag works along the Padma, prioritizing the Daulatdia ferry-ghat approaches Responsible: Bangladesh Water Development Board · policy proposal
Pre-position erosion-displacement support (khas-land resettlement, cash-for-relocation) for riverside households before each monsoon Responsible: Department of Disaster Management · policy proposal