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Rajbari Sadar (Rajbari)

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The district headquarters upazila of Rajbari on the Padma bank, the administrative centre where the district's modest urban growth concentrates along the highway-ferry corridor.

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. urbanization As the district seat, it absorbs Rajbari town's built-up expansion, which has spread largely onto floodplain and agricultural land along the Daulatdia corridor. So what: Productive and erosion-prone land is lost to unplanned town growth. Source: Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
2. climate disaster The Padma riverfront of the sadar is subject to bank erosion and monsoon flooding that threaten the town's approaches, farmland, and homesteads. So what: The administrative hub and its riverside land are progressively at risk. Source: Bangladesh Water Development Board
3. air quality As the urban centre on a busy highway-ferry corridor, the sadar carries the district's elevated traffic and combustion emissions for a non-metropolitan area. So what: Residents face rising local air-pollution exposure. Source: Department of Environment

Probable solutions

• Enforce floodplain-sensitive land-use planning for Rajbari town and the Daulatdia corridor to steer built-up growth off productive and erosion-prone land Responsible: Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) · policy proposal
• Construct and maintain bank-protection revetments and geo-bag works along the Padma erosion front at the sadar Responsible: Bangladesh Water Development Board · policy proposal