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Sakhipur (Tangail)

Local Gov

An upland upazila in the Madhupur sal-forest tract of eastern Tangail, where forest, plantation and settlement compete for the same red-soil terrain.

Wealth rank 333/452 (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. environment Lying within the Madhupur sal-forest tract, Sakhipur is exposed to the district's documented forest loss as sal cover is converted to plantation and settlement. So what: Degradation of the sal forest erodes biodiversity and the natural buffer against soil loss. Source: Bangladesh Forest Department
  2. urbanization Settlement and cultivation continue to expand onto the Madhupur tract here, encroaching on remaining tree cover and farmland margins. So what: Land-use conversion further fragments the forest and reduces ecological resilience. Source: Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
  3. poverty Sakhipur's RWI mean of 0.056 sits in the upper-middle wealth deciles among upazilas, indicating modest rather than acute wealth. So what: Limited household surplus constrains private investment in land restoration and off-farm enterprise. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)

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