PROFILE of SONAILTALA UNION Mongla: Upazila District: Bagerhat
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P a g e | 1 PROFILE Of SONAILTALA UNION Mongla: Upazila District: Bagerhat November-2014 P a g e | 2 Table of Content Sl # Content Page # 1. Union Map 03 2. Background, Socio-economic conditions , Disaster Vulnerabilities 04 3. Socio-economic condition 04 4. Geography 04 5. Disaster/ Vulnérabilités 04 6. Hard-to-Reach Areas. 05 7. Population in general 05 8. Child Population 05 9. Snapshot of situation of children and women in the union 06 10. Health and Nutrition 07 11. Situation of Birth Registration, Disability and Child Marriage 08 12. Child Labour 08 13. Education: Pre Primary, Primary and Secondary level 08 14. Water and Sanitation 09 15. Service by NGOs 09 16. Union Parishad Functional Status 09 17. Table 1.1: Ward wise Sex disaggregated population data 11 18. Table 1.2: Age specific child population 11 19. Table 2.1: Ward wise number of Children fully immunized or left out 12 20. Table 2.2: Ward wise number of pregnant women with status of IFA intake 12 21. Table 2.3: Infrastructure and facilities/ Health & FP 13 22. Table 2.4 and 2.5: HR status of Health and FP 13 23. Table 3.1: Situation of birth registration child labour, disability 14 24. Table 4.1: Pre-primary Education coverage 14 25. Table 4.2: Primary Education coverage 15 26. Table 4.3: Secondary education coverage 15 27. Table 4.4: Infrastructure and facilities of Educational institution 16 28. Table 4.5: HR status of Institution 16 29. Table 5.1: Source of safe water and water Coverage 17 30. Table 5.2: Sanitation Coverage 17 31. Mapping of NGO Programmes 18 32. List of Cyclone Shelter 18 33. Civil Society: List of Key Influential peoples and their contact no. 19 34. Name and contact number of Chair persons of 5 key standing committees 19 35. Important Mobile number of Union Parishad 19 P a g e | 3 Map: Sonailtala Union of Mongla Upazila P a g e | 4 Part A: General Information 1. Background, Socio-economic condition, Disaster vulnerability, Hard-to-reach area 1.1 Background Sonailtala is a Union of Mongla Upazila under Bagerhat district. The Union was established in 1960. It is bounded on the north and east by Rampal upazila, on the south by Mithakhali and Chandpai union and on the west by Chandpai union and Mongla River. It is 11 km away towards north-east from Mongla Upazila head quarter and 72 km from district HQ. The present UP chairman is Nurgena Begum and she has been observing the responsibility with proper care. The union Parishad is consists of UP Chairman, nine ward members and three women members; they are elected by direct peoples vote. The union has a permanent UP office (union complex building) but the relevant GOB section staffs are not seating in the union complex building. Total area of the union is 15.4554 sq. Km. This union is moderate disaster prone area for Cyclone. 1.2 Socio-economic condition: More than 55% (approx. by UP representatives) of the inhabitants of the Union have been living below poverty line which is more or less same as other rural areas of Bagerhat district. Main occupations of the population are fish culture, fishing, day labor, agriculture, and honey collection from the Sundarban forest. The main crops are paddy, vegetable and main export item is Fish (Shrimp). Fish (shrimp) culture and daily labor are considered as major livelihood and children are engaged in those activities. The main concern of education for Children is their deprivation from their rights. There is no government and private Bank but there is one village market in the Union. brac, Rupantar, Dhaka Ahsania Mission, World Vision and some others NGOs are involved in micro–credit/financing program in the Union. The overall socio-economic condition of the community people is not good at all. 1.3 Geography: The union is located in the east bank of Passur River and very close to Mongla (Chalna) Sea port. It lies bounded on the north by Rampal Upzila, on the east by Mithakhali union, on the south by Sundarban union and on the west by Chandpai Union. 1.4 Disaster/Vulnérabilités: Sonailtala union is moderately disaster prone area for Cyclone and tidal surge due to this union is close to Bay of Bangle. It is Situated by the bank of the big river passsure but the enbankment was washout during disaster AILA 25 May’ 2009. Cyclone and tidal wave hits almost every year and affects the people, damages their houses and crops and increase their sufferings which make them poor/ultra-poor. In the rainy season fish farmers loss their fishes due to overflow of water and paddy, vegetable and other crops usually get ruined for water logging’. There are three (03) Cyclone shelters and capacity is 1450 only but they have no any killa(fort) for animal protection. Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) is working here from last year on cyclone preparedness and early warning system. They have 9 units of trained and well equip volunteer (male-90 and female 45) P a g e | 5 1.5 Hard-to-Reach Areas, villages and communities: There is no hard to reach area in this union. Internal communication is almost good in dry season but not so good in rainy season. The union has 7.00 km carpeting road, 6 km brick soling road and 40 km earthen road. Earthen roads are totally non useable for Rickshaw/van even not possible to walk in the rainy season. Motor cycle, Tom tom, and Rickshaw/van are usually used as vehicle within the union. Sometimes people face difficulty to get health service specially ANC service due to long distance in between FWC, CC and community. Distance and communication mood are as below; (Distance are counted from UP office to middle of the respective village) Ward Name of Village Distance from Mood of Communication # Union Parishad 1 Bara Sunailtala 2.00 km Jeep/Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle (Sunailtala) 2 Chotto Sunailtala 1.50 km Jeep/Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle (Shiki Sunailtala) 3 Bakultala 3.00 km Jeep/Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 4 Amratala East side 1.00 km Jeep/Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 5 Amratala Middle side 0.50 km Jeep/Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle Amratala west side 0.50 km Jeep/Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 6 Chapra 1.50 km Jeep/Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 7 Ulubunia 2.50 km Jeep/Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 8 Ulubunia (Joykhan) 4.00 km Jeep/Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 9 Joykha 6.00 km Jeep/Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 2. Population Profile: 2.1 Population in general The union has a total of 8832 populations in 2439 households (Census 2011), and population density is 1024 per Sq Km. But there is a variation on the number of HH of the Union as “the holding assessment 2012-2013” which was conducted by union council itself, and number of HH is 2745. Union Parishad claimed that the holding assessment is updated. Around 60% population of this union are Muslim, 25% Hindus and 15% are from Christian religion. The details are shown in the Table 1.1 in the Annex I. 2.2 Child Population: According to the Census 2011, total number of child in the union from 0 to 19 years are 3335 which is 37.8% of total population (0-4 is 713, 5-9 is 922, 10-14 is 1047 and 15-19 is 653). Community data provides more age specific information than census data and the total child population from 0 to 18 years are 3420, 0-1 year is 186, 1 to 2 years 182, 5 to 6 years 852 and 6 to 10 years 190. This gives an increased population number than Census as usual. Table 1.2 shows the details P a g e | 6 Part B: Situation of Children and Women The following chapters describe the sector wise facilities and situation of children and women in the Union. The following table gives a snapshot of the situation of children and women in the union: Table 1: Snapshot of Situation of children and women in the union Indicators Total Received Not Received Number of pregnant women who have received / not received 65* 65* - IFA tablets No. of pregnant mothers who have completed 4 ANC visits 65* 4* 61* No. of delivery take place in health centers (institutional delivery) No data No. of 1 year old children having / not having birth certificates 155* 96** 59** No. of birth registration within 45 days of birth 20** No. of 1 year old children who have completed all the vaccines 155* 95* 60* and left out No. of children <5 with / without recommended weight and No data height No. of children in PPE/ out of PPE 167* 133* 34* No. of children in / out of school ( Primary) 732* 732* 0 No. of children in / out of school (Secondary) 458* No of children engaged in labor 32** Children with disabilities 30** No. of children not living with families No data No. of children below 18 who are married 0 ** No. of households with / without access to safe water sources 2745** 1647** 1098** No. of households with / without sanitary latrines 2745** 2378** 367** No. of female headed households No data *administrative data, **community data ***BRIS data as of January 2014 The union has 10065 pregnant women and as of October 2014 all of them have visited the health center at least once for checkup and received IFA tablet. Out of them only 4 Pregnant Women have completed 4 ANC visits and 61 did not receive the full package of service due to lack of knowledge and some are not eligible for 4 ANC.