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1.58 lakh hectares devoured, 20 lakh rendered homeless in 36 years by 3 major rivers [1]

Three major rivers of the country---the Jamuna, the Ganges and the Padma---devoured 1,58,780 hectares of land, rendering about 20 lakh people homeless since 1973, a research organisation working with river and water resources said here on Wednesday.

Publication Date: 
24/07/2009
New Nation (Bangladesh) [2]
Tags:
Soil Erosion [3], Water Resources [4], Rivers [5], Ganga [6], Padma [7], Natural Disasters [8], Displacement [9], Bangladesh [10]

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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/displacement
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