PROFILE of MITHAKALI UNION Upazila: Mongla District: Bagerhat
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P a g e | 1 PROFILE Of MITHAKALI UNION Temporary UP Office Upazila: Mongla 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 06 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 10 16. Union Parishad Functional Status 10 17. Table 1.1: Ward wise Sex disaggregated population data 12 18. Table 1.2: Age specific child population 13 19. Table 2.1: Ward wise number of Children fully immunized or left out 14 20. Table 2.2: Ward wise number of pregnant women with status of IFA intake 15 21. Table 2.3: Infrastructure and facilities/ Health & FP 16 22. Table 2.4 and 2.5: HR status of Health and FP 16 23. Table 3.1: Situation of birth registration child labour, disability 17 24. Table 4.1: Pre-primary Education coverage 18 25. Table 4.2: Primary Education coverage 19 26. Table 4.3: Secondary education coverage 20 27. Table 4.4: Infrastructure and facilities of Educational institution 20 28. Table 4.5: HR status of Institution 21 29. Table 5.1: Source of safe water and water Coverage 21 30. Table 5.2: Sanitation Coverage 22 31. Mapping of NGO Programmes 23 32. Civil Society: List of Key Influential peoples and their contact no. 24 33. Name and contact number of Chair persons of 5 key standing committees 24 34. List of Cyclone Shelter 24 35. Important Mobile number of Union Parishad 25 P a g e | 3 Map: Mithakhali Union P a g e | 4 Part A: General Information 1. Background, Socio-economic condition, Disaster vulnerability, Hard-to-reach area 1.1 Background Under Bagerhat district Mithakhali is a Union of Mongla Upazila. The Union was established in 1960. Once upon a time Mithakhali union was a part of the Sundarban forest area. It is 15 km away towards south-east from Mongla Upazila and 75 km from the district head quarter. The first Chairman of the union parishad was Mr. “Abu Bakar Siddique” came from Mithakhali village so the name of union is Mithakhali. Mr. Gazi Azher Ali is the present UP chairman and he has been performing the responsibility as up chairman from May’ 2011. Currently Union Parishad (Council) is consists of UP Chairman, nine ward members and three women members, was elected by direct vote of the people. The union has no a permanent UP office but they have a temporary office located at Goalir Math village which is in ward # 05. Total area of the union is 34.4237 sq. Km. 1.2 Socio-economic condition: Like other rural areas of Bagerhat district more than 60% (approx. by UP representatives) people are living below poverty line. Main occupations of the population are fishing, fish culture, day labor, agriculture and honey collection from the Sundarban forest. The main crops are paddy, vegetable; banana and main export item is Fish (Shrimp). Fishing and fish (shrimp) culture are considered as major livelihood; children are also engaged in those activities. Children are deprived from their rights which are the main hindrance case of their education. There is no government and private Bank in the Union but there are three big village markets. There are brac, CODEC, Dhaka Ahsania Mission, SHEBA, World Vision and some others NGOs who are involved in micro–credit/financing program. Overall the community people socio-economic condition is poor. 1.3 Geography: It lies bounded on the north by Sunaitala union, on the east by Morelgonj Upazilla, on the south by Sundorban union and on the west by Chandpai Union. 1.4. Disaster/Vulnérabilités: Mithakhali union is a disaster prone area and gets affected very often by Cyclone and tidal surge due to this union is close to Bay of Bangle. The “Mathertala” River is flowing through the east side of this union and the embankment are not reconstructed after 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 push them below P a g e | 5 poverty line. In the rainy season fish farmers loss their fishes due to overflow of water and paddy, vegetable and other crops usually inundate by water logging’. There are Twelve (12) Cyclone shelters with the capacity of only 15000 but there is no any earthen killa in the Union for the protection of Animal. Cyclone Preparedness Program (CPP) is working here from last year on cyclone preparedness and early warning system. 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 with 2.50 km carpeting road, 37.00 km brick soling road and 54.00 km earthen road. Earthen roads are totally unusable for Rickshaw/van even not possible to walk in the rainy season. Motor cycle and Rickshaw/van are usually used as vehicle within the union. People are to face difficulty to get health service sometimes 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 the middle of respective village) Ward Name of Village Distance from Mood of Communication # Union Parishad 1 Mithakhali 8.00 km Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle Purbo Datter Meth 10.00 km Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 2 Moukhali 9.50 km Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle Sonakhali 9.50 km Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle Pachim Datter Meth 7.00 km Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 3 Satghariya 8.00 km Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle Bashurkhanda 7.00 km Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 4 Shahebermeth 3.00 km Jeep /Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 5 Goalirmeth 1.00 km Jeep /Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 6 Khonkarer Ber 3.00 km Jeep /Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle Satpukuria 1.50 km Jeep /Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle Khasherdanga 2.00 km Jeep /Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 7 Khar khariya 3.00 km Jeep /Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle Dhan Khali 3.00 km Jeep /Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle Andariya 5.00 km Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 8 Totar Danga 4.50 KM Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle Nitakhali 2.00 km Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 9 Chouri Danga 3.00 km Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle P a g e | 6 2. Population Profile: 2.1 Population in general The total population of the Union is 17,139 and number of HH is 4292 (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 2013” which was conducted by union parishad itself, and number of HH is 4791. Union Parishad claimed that the holding assessment is updated. Around 64% population of this union are Muslim, 21% Hindus and 10% are from Christian religion. The details are shown in the Table 1.1 in the Annex I. Table 1.1: Ward wise Sex disaggregated population data 2.2 Child Population: According to the Census 2011 the total child population in the union from 0 to 19 years are 6,433 which is 36.80% of total population (0-4 is 1,289, 5-9 is 1,761, 10-14 is 2,033 and 15- 19 is 1,347). Community data provides more age specific information than census data and the total child population from 0 to 10 years are 3,474, 0-1 year is 283, 1 to 2 years 293, 5 to 6 years 253 and 6 to 10 years 2645. This gives an increased population number than Census as usual. Table 1.2: Age specific child population 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 94* 94* IFA tablets No. of pregnant mothers who have completed 4 ANC visits 94* 24* 70* No. of delivery take place in health centers (institutional delivery) 4* No. of 1 year old children having / not having birth certificates 258* 55** 203** No. of birth registration within 45 days of birth 00** No. of 1 year old children who have completed all the vaccines 258* 154* 104* and left out No. of children <5 with / without recommended weight and No data height No. of children in PPE/ out of PPE 329* 290* 39* No. of children in / out of school ( Primary) 1507* 1507* 0 No. of children in / out of school (Secondary) 1464* 0 No of children engaged in labor 46** Children with disabilities 319** No. of children not living with families 33** No. of children below 18 who are married 15** No. of households with / without access to safe water sources 4790** 1685** No. of households with / without sanitary latrines 4790** 2989** No. of female headed households No data *administrative data, **community data ***BRIS data as of January 2014 P a g e | 7 The union has 94 pregnant women and as of October 2014 all of them have visited the health center at least once for ANC checkup and all are received IFA tablet.