Bangladesh
has only one seaward island in the Bay of Bengal that
can be considered as a Coral-ringed island. It is the Narikeljinjira or St.
Martin's Island. It lies at the
south-easternmost corner of the nation.
Jinjira is only 8 square kilometers in stature, around 8 km by 1 km. Notwithstanding, in spots like the
Galachipa, it is close to 60m in width. The island is a somewhat
dumbbell-formed one lying generally in a north to southeast course. It is
differentiated from the south-easternmost tip of Bangladesh,
the Shapurirdwip, by a channel of 10 to 12
km in width. The largest piece of the island is at the
north and it is called Uttar Para, importance northern town. At that point we
have focal share or Maddhya Para, southern parcel as Dakshin Para and a
lengthened southwestern part. At the current time there are human abodes in all
aspects of the island on the grounds that numerous non-local people have
acquired land and changed over those into vacationer lodges or are being utilized
for cultivating.
Past the south-easternmost corner of the island, there are
three littler islands that are differentiated from each other and the
fundamental island amid high tide. Anyhow at ebb, all get to be joined. All
these three islands joined are called Siradia or differentiated islands. There
is no human residence here in spite of the fact that individuals attempted to
offer and involve these previously. As of late drift watch has made a
provisional camp here to control the invasion of the Rohingas…
Presented plants, for example, Coconut command the
vegetation on the island. Most predominant characteristically happening species
is the Screwpinepandanusodoratissimus, generally called Keora. Other presented
trees incorporate Figs, Mandar or Coral Tree, Palash or Flame of the Forest,
Shimul or Red Silk Cotton, Mango, Raintree, Shiris, Pongam, Jiolbhadi, Bamboo,
Cane, Supari or Betel Nut, Kath Badam or Indian Almond, Casuarina, Custard
Apple, Jackfruit, Bandorlathi or Cassia, Sheora or Sandpaper, and so forth.
It is said the island is framed of an immense stony
structure that is saucer molded. Over it there is the testimony of soil and
sand. There used to be immense stones of both sand stone and coral spread
practically on top of it. Individuals have uprooted bigger stones in the course
of recent decades or something like that. On the other hand, stones of the
measure of a bathtub are not remarkable. More than 50 every penny of the island
is stony. In a few spots, stones could be discovered just under a meter
profundity. There used to be no less than three tidal ponds previously.
All the men are fundamentally fisher society and/or a
significant number of them are hapless acting as workers in this industry. The
womenfolk essentially minds the family undertakings, helps the little farming
honed in the island and some tune in gathering the minor wetland assets. Simply
a modest bunch of the islanders are included in the shop-keeping and with the
tourism business. 
Through the decades the islanders and angling groups from
the territory have drained the fish stock from inside 10 to 20 square
kilometers of the Bay of Bengal encompassing the Jinjira
Island. So this industry has ended
up unsustainable.
In addition, the activities executed for the sake of the Jinjira
Island hadn't included the
islanders. Concerning sample, the main government financed, vast scale
undertaking of generally Taka 150 million had utilized only 4 least level
workers amid the residency of 5 years or thereabouts. The national and global
Ngos showed improvement over the legislature activities.
Accordingly the islanders are getting to be more subject to
the seaside assets for their subsistence survival by concentrating assets that
had stayed untouched even two decades back. Concerning sample, they are getting
fishes from splits and fissure of rocks, stones and coral framing zones from
where I have recorded six new types of fishes that had never been accounted for
by any researcher from Bangladesh.
I have the seventh species, Puntam Goby Gobiuspuntamin the coral stones a
couple of years back. All these 7 species are uncommon in our marine
surroundings.
Hence the islanders are bound to accomplish more mischief
than profit to the current seaside wetland encompassing the Jinjira
Island by draining the number of
inhabitants in plants creatures still present there.
In this way, there can be no practical administration of the
wetland recourses of the seaside wetland bordering the Narikeljinjira without
the dynamic interest of the huge portion of the occupant islanders.
Perhaps 25 every penny range of the island is suitable for
development. Notwithstanding paddy, cucumber, pumpkin, snake gourd, astringent
gourd, watermelon, onion, green stew, radish, beans, eggplant, potato and
tomato are developed regularly. There are an apparent number of cows, goats,
poultry, ducks, and pigeons as tamed creatures.
The island is populated by in the ballpark of 4600
individuals according to the preparatory aftereffect of the national populace
statistics sorted out amid the last January 2000 and 6000 according to the
pilot undertaking report of the NCS Implementation Phase-I. It might be
specified here that the populace was short of what 2500 amid the 1980 when I
initially went to the island. It implies that the populace has been multiplied
amid the previous 22 years.
Primary calling of the islanders is angling that is limited
in the middle of October and March. Some function as homestead workers and
businesspeople. There are other people who act as boatmen. The ladies and kids
to a great extent deal with agribusiness. Occasionally green coconuts (Dab);
Watermelon (Tormuz) and Cucumber (Khira) are sold in the neighborhood bazaar
and to merchants who make wholesale buys of these things for transporting these
out of the island. Chickens have a readymade neighborhood market, as about six
restaurants need bunches of mea.
There are about six rice-husking plant controlled by diesel
engine. After the devastation of a legislature generator for the electric
supply at present private gatherings are working diesel pumps for era of power
to the shopping ranges at the beachfront of the Uttar Para. The power is
supplied from 5 PM to 10 PM on a day by day rental premise. A few
shops and the whole island people use lamp fuel lamps in their homes. Rest of
the houses has their own particular era of power either through sun oriented
force or diesel motors.
Very nearly each one lodging unit or a group of few houses
has a scaled down lake; dump that serve as the main wellspring of freshwater.
There is huge group lake at Uttar Para. Likewise, a few houses have tube wells
for the supply of drinking water. All the rest houses use generator for their
water supply. Islanders use Kutchcha or semi-pucca toilets with or without a cement
security tank to store the surge of the toilets.
Minor produce of the island that are by and large frequently
used by a portion of the islanders include:
(i) Removal of living and dead shells of all types of
mollusks accessible along the shoreline and rough shores.
(ii) Coral Shells assembled from the shoreline and also from
close shore by swooping without any plunging contraptions.
(iii) Slate-like stone sheet for making circular circles to
be utilized as weight for angling net. These are utilized as a part of spot of
cast iron or lead weights.
(iv) Coral rocks for concentrating calcium carbonate.
(v) Flat Sand stones for making Grinding Stone (Shil-Nora).
(vi) Boulders from the island and from the rough shore for
house building, making obstructions, and for making totals utilized as a part
of the development of streets or dividers, and structures.
(vii) Keora or Screwpine tree trunks are bountifully
utilized as shafts for wall and making thatched houses.
(viii) Branches from Nishinda (Vitexnigunda) and mangrove
bushes and trees are for fencing. A few trees are utilized for house
fabricating too.
(ix) Red green growth from the shoreline for drying and
after that offering to Rakhain (Mogh) individuals of Myanmar
(x) Occasional utilization of marine turtle eggs by a couple
of islanders, who offer these to Rakhain individuals.
(xi) A couple of individuals likewise known to shoot
feathered creatures and consume their meat.
(xii) Some use dead trees, extensions, bushes, herbs, and
vines as fuel wood.
(xiii) Some uncover clayey soil for utilization in heater
making, utilizing as glue for roughage wall, and so forth.
A couple of uncover crabs for utilizing these as angling
snares.
Aggregate sum of crisp water of the island is the most
restricted common asset. Whatever rainwater gets collected over the
saucer-molded rough plate is the main wellspring of freshwater.
Notwithstanding changeless inhabitants of the island, around
500 individuals touch base with angling and cultivating seasons to act as
workers and as fish dealers or those works in fish transforming homesteads.
As a rule 5000 travelers, visit the island every day from
November to February. On a few weekends guest figures even cross 8000
individuals. Most voyagers come in the morning and leave the islands by
nighttime. However the individuals who aim to get a weekend they touch base by
mid-day used no less than one night and leave the island taking after evening.
Few voyagers stay on the island more than two days.
At the late time, numerous government authorities began
going by the island. Some of them go there for their authority obligations and
others for no particular reason. Indeed the Prime Minister of the nation paid a
short visit in 2000.
Northeastern corner of the island, that is absolutely sandy,
frequently experiences land disintegration from the wave activities or sporadic
water momentums. A couple of other sandy zones of the island, particularly
close Golachipa, additionally experience the ill effects of disintegration.
Amid the most recent two decades, islanders have set up stone dikes close to
all the towns to avert disintegration. They utilized rocks from the shorelines
and from the fundamental island itself.
Dangers to island are impending more structure the visitors
and visitor related framework advancement. For the sake of nature preservation
Environment office has made an immense office complex exactly at the most
delicate part the GOLACHIPA, short of what 100 meters in width. Essentially
Navy, Coast Guard, other government divisions have secured colossal structures
without doing any legitimate Environmental Impact Assessment. Lodging and
visitor industry building solid structures all over the place despite Govt.
environment division boycott on such structures.
As the island has extremely constrained freshwater and waste
water discharged by the villagers and the voyagers can't escape from eh island
on the grounds that the island sits on a saucer-molded stone through which
nothing permeates into the ocean. Thus, in a matter of decade the island
soil-water will get to be super soaked with sympathetic waste, particularly
excreta and pee. Somebody ought to study the nature of water that is frequently
devoured by the islanders for all their residential errands and drinking, and
god alone recognizes what sway they are having on their body from the
utilization of this debased water.
Government should instantly quit constructing all solid
structures uproot those assembled unlawfully, quit staying sightseers overnight
by constraining the on season standard to only 200 individuals when permitting
daytime visit of 10000 guests amid the crest season from November to February.
Procurement must be made for expelling all strong waste from the island to the
Shapurirdwip or some other landfill to be secured by the legislature.
Offices to be implicit Shapurirdwip and Teknaf and
government ought to urge individuals to there and make day treks to the island.
Govt itself avoid building structures and boycott all new
structures. It ought to quickly make waste reusing plant and power supply. Govt
must make it required for all undertakings identified with the Narikeljinjira
must have procurement of using half of the task cash on the island and for the
islanders. It should likewise guarantee elective pay era for the islanders.
Source: thedailystar.net
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