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Kalmakanda (Netrokona)

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A northern border upazila of Netrokona at the foot of the Meghalaya hills, where hill run-off and haor lowlands drive sharp flash-flood risk.

Wealth rank 51/452 (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 Deep household poverty, with a mean Relative Wealth Index of -0.278 placing Kalmakanda in the second-poorest decile of upazilas nationally. So what: Severe asset poverty leaves border households highly vulnerable to flood losses. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)
  2. climate disaster Sudden hill run-off from the adjoining Meghalaya frontier feeds pre-monsoon flash floods that hit the haor boro paddy with little warning. So what: Rapid upstream flooding can destroy the year's only rice crop overnight. Source: Department of Disaster Management
  3. infrastructure Remote border-and-haor villages have limited all-weather roads and submersible embankment protection, leaving them seasonally isolated. So what: Cut-off villages face delayed relief and costly transport during the wet season. Source: Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)

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