The flood affected people in eastern, south-eastern and north-eastern Bangladesh are continuing to suffer as roads, other infrastructures and homesteads are severely damaged in the flood.
Thousands of families have lost their livestock like cows, goats, chickens and ducks also in the flood.
Many flood-affected people in Feni and Noakhali districts alleged that they got hardly any or very insufficient relief.
The death toll in the flood is so far 71 with no new deaths recorded on Wednesday.
The number of marooned families in the 11 affected districts stood at 5.82 lakh and people stood at 50.24 lakh till Tuesday, as per the flood situation report issued by the disaster management and relief ministry.
A rapid assessment by Oxfam in Bangladesh issued on Tuesday showed that over 90 per cent of the population in Feni and Noakhali has been severely affected, with nearly all shelters submerged, 48 per cent completely destroyed, and 100 per cent of sanitation and water facilities rendered unusable.
With the loss of livelihoods, food insecurity is a growing concern, with 72 per cent of affected families only able to eat twice a day, often insufficiently, it added.
Out of six flood affected upazilas of Feni, the most affected upazilas are Phulgazi and Parshuram.
In Phulgazi upazila, there was no vehicular movement for the past 13 days as different stretches of the road from Notun Munshirhat to Amzadhat under Munshirhat union broke in flood.
Dakkhin Boraiya village鈥檚 honours student Akhtaruzzaman Bijoy said that flood water broke the embankment along the river Muhuri at Boraiya and Jagatpur villages and also flooded shops and houses adjacent to the roads.
There was same scenario in Parshuram upazila where the road from Porshuram Bazar to Uttar Kaoke village under Mirzanagar union was heavily damaged in flood.
According to the Local Government Engineering Department and the Roads and Highways Department the cost of damages to the roads in the district amounted at around Tk聽140.48 crore.聽
Parshuram upazila nirbahi officer Afruza Habib Shapla said that the roads would be repaired soon.
As per the Feni district livestock officer Md Mozammel Haque, so far the damages to the livestock sector had been estimated at Tk聽396.09 crore.
Shakhawat Hossain Pintu and Gias Uddin, both residents of Boro Dholia Mollar Takiya village under Feni sadar upazila, had three farms with 9,000 chickens and a factory to make chicken feeds.
They only could save around 1,000 broilers while the rest died in flash flood which also damaged everything in the factory.
Now they incurred in losses over Tk聽2 crore and they had lakhs of taka loan in different banks.
Same thing happened with Fakhrul Islam Mashuk from Baghaiya village under Motbi union in sadar upazila who lost his all fish farms and incurred over Tk 1.5 crore in losses.
Noakhali district relief and rehabilitation office sources said on Wednesday that 16.04 lakh people in Noakhali were still stranded in the water while 1.68 lakh people were living in 901 shelters.
The government distributed Tk聽45 lakh, 1,718 metric tonnes of rice, 1,000 packets of dry food, baby foods worth Tk 5 lakh and fodder worth Tk 5 lakh, they added.
In Monohorganj upazila of Cumilla, many houses and roads are still under water and around one and a half million people are living an inhumane life being trapped in water without relief.
Local people mentioned that the flood water entered the upazila 15 days ago after the dam in several places of Cumilla, neighbouring district Noakhali along Dakatiya river broke.
Monohorganj upazila executive officer Ujala Rani Chakma said that it may take another week for the water to subside in the upazila.
He also said that 108 shelters have been opened for the flood-affected people and foods were being distributed among the people stranded in remote areas.