DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17730051
title: Table 8 - 3 in Saidabad Water Treatment Plant Project, Phase III

description: Table 8-3: Findings of FGDs
Source of IncomeSource of waterElectricityEnergy/GasEducationHealthNGO serviceImpact of DWASA work› The source of income is litchi garden. › Most of the men in the area go to Dhaka to work. They go in the morning and come in the afternoon. › There is a service general hospital and a family health clinic in Haria Chowdhury Para where some local people have master roll basis employment › There is a market in Anandabazar and every morning they can by fresh vegetables and other needful things. › Everything you need is available there.› There are deep tube wells as the only source of water in the village near the Meghna River. › All the work including bathing and cooking is done in the water of the tube well. › A total of 6 people in their family, including 2 daughters, have been using tube-wells for 2 years, there is no arsenic in the water but there is iron in the water.› 100% of the locality surveyed have electricity connections › In the rural part they pay the electricity bill by card or meter and their electric connect is legal. › There is a power line, the bill comes through the meter. › The bill increased during summer season which is 3 times more› There is illegal gas line. connections. They don’t pay monthly bill; every 2/3 years the authority cut the line then ask for a certain amount i.e. 5000 to 10000 taka per household for reconnection of the illegal connections. › They paid 80,000 per households for the first-time connection without any money receipt;› The people are aware of education and send their children to schools or madrashas. › Girls’ education rate is good, and mothers are concern for their daughters’ education. › Suraiya Akhter said there are several kindergartens and madrasas in the area. › Donia University College, A.K. High School and College, Shampur Model School and College,› Local people are aware of health care and go to doctors for treatment. › Most of them go to government hospital as that is free and give medicine for free of cost. › The people are better in economic condition, they go to private clinics for good services. › There is a clinic in Darpat where medicine is also provided free of cost. › Gynaecologists come here on› NGOs works are not very popular here. › NGOs have not much welfare programs here except micro-credit. › The NGOs are working here named ASA, BRAC, Social Islami Bank, Palli Mangal, PROSHIKA, and some more but they could not give the names just said several NGOs work here. › Necessary consumer goods are available in› Many of the houses, crops, lands, plants and gardens will be damaged due to the DWASA water supply pipeline from Sonargaon to Dhaka. › The amount of money for land we have received from the government is much less than the local market price.6 › That amount of we received that cannot be used to buy new land in the same locality as because now the price of land is higher than before. › So, we want the government to› Some of them have fish farms & and raises cows. › An auto driver can earn 10/15 thousand taka per month. › Nazrul Islam is earning Taka 8,000 to 10,000 a month who is a van driver. › Some have poultry farms, some have cattle farms, litchi gardens and agriculture farming. › Many people work in agriculture. Paddy, maize etc. are cultivated. There is also income from litchi garden. › The people here mostly run small businesses, some have jobs, many have house owners who earn by renting the houses.› Few cases have Deep tube well. › Some people use ponds while collect drinking water from the Masjid’s deep tube well. › In the market area and the urban sides, they have access to DWASA pipelines connections but complain about water quality. › During last Ramadan they suffered due to scarcity of water. They received water at midnight ofof winter season. › Frequent load shading is a big problem which disturb daily life mostly children’s education.they said your gas line is the receipt for you. › Many of the households use cylinder gas but it is very expensive for them. › Some of them has no gas line or Cylinder who is firewood in the traditional mud-cooker. › In some cases, they have Improved Cook Stove while less consumption of firewood that reduce the cost. › Some of them use Cylinder gas duringBarnamala Adarsh High School. › There are primary schools, secondary schools, and madrasas. › The area has primary schools, secondary schools and madrasas and kindergartens. › There are schools and madrasas in the village. › The old people are mostly illiterate, more specifically old women are not literate.Tuesdays and Wednesdays. › There is also a doctor here every day › There are some pharmacies in the local market and in the village, there are also family clinics. › The treatment is not good, there are some local clinics. › The biggest problem is to take the patient to Narayanganj city or Dhaka. › The medical system is not so good. There are drug pharmacies.the rural market, and they can by instalments basis, so they do not bother about NGO service. › NGOs loan is high interest and every week they come for kisti (instalments) so unless emergency they do not like to take loan from NGOs.give us some more money. › The people present in the meeting said that the new pipeline of DWASA for fetching water from the Meghna River has passed over their houses. They must move from the locality and loose the social connections with neighbourhood and relatives. › There is WASA pipeline connections exists but sometimes water comes less, dirty water also comes with bad smell. › We want good quality water from new connections.every alternative day which was not sufficient for them.emergency but mostly cook by firewood.
6 These PAPs were eligible and will receive top-up after RAP implementation consultant's assessment.
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