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Haluaghat (Mymensingh)

Local Gov

A northern border upazila at the foot of the Garo Hills along the Indian frontier, mixing plain agriculture with forest-edge tracts and an indigenous Garo population.

Wealth rank 89/452 (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. poverty Household wealth is well below average, with a mean Relative Wealth Index of -0.215 (national rank 89 of 452, second-poorest decile), among the poorest profiled in this cluster. So what: Deep deprivation in a remote border upazila limits access to services and resilient livelihoods. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)
  2. climate disaster Hill-fed rivers descending from the Garo Hills bring flash flooding to the plains below during heavy rainfall. So what: Sudden flash floods can wipe out crops and damage homes with little warning. Source: Department of Disaster Management
  3. environment Forest-edge tracts along the border face pressure from clearance and illegal logging, with associated human-elephant conflict. So what: Forest degradation worsens both biodiversity loss and crop-raiding risk for Garo farmers. Source: Bangladesh Forest Department

Probable solutions