Dhaka, June 16 -- In Khulna's Dumuria Upazila, a government river dredging project has buried not only land but the fragile hopes of more than a hundred homeless families, who once believed they had finally escaped a life of displacement.

Now, those same families from two Ashrayan housing projects are living in an open field beside Chuknagar cattle market, exposed to heat, rain and uncertainty after their homes were engulfed by soil excavated from the Buri-Bhadra River.

The crisis began when dredging work started along stretches of the river adjacent to the Chuknagar and Kathaltala Boratia government projects under Ashrayan-2, which had been established in 2021 to rehabilitate landless and homeless families across Dumuria.

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