Chandpai Union

P a g e | 1 PROFILE Of CHANDPAI UNION 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 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 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 12 19. Table 2.1: Ward wise number of Children fully immunized or left out 13 20. Table 2.2: Ward wise number of pregnant women with status of IFA intake 13 21. Table 2.3: Infrastructure and facilities/ Health & FP 14 22. Table 2.4 and 2.5: HR status of Health and FP 14 23. Table 3.1: Situation of birth registration child labour, disability 15 24. Table 4.1: Pre-primary Education coverage 15 25. Table 4.2: Primary Education coverage 16 26. Table 4.3: Secondary education coverage 16 27. Table 4.4: Infrastructure and facilities of Educational institution 17 28. Table 4.5: HR status of Institution 17 29. Table 5.1: Source of safe water and water Coverage 18 30. Table 5.2: Sanitation Coverage 18 31. Mapping of NGO Programmes 19 32. Civil Society: List of Key Influential peoples and their contact no. 20 33. Name and contact number of Chair persons of 5 key standing committees 20 34. List of Cyclone Shelter 21 35. Important Mobile number of Union Parishad 21 P a g e | 3 Map: Chandpai Union P a g e | 4 Part A: General Information 1. Background, Socio-economic condition, Disaster vulnerability, Hard-to-reach area 1.1 Background Chandpai is a Union of Mongla Upazila under Bagerhat district. The Union was established in 1954. Once upon a time Chandpai was the part of the Sundraban. It is only three km away towards south from Mongla Upazila head quarter and 65 km from district HQ. Mr. Mollah Mohammed Tariqul Islam is the present UP chairman, have been elected for the 3rd term at a row from 24 March’ 1998. Total area of the union is 20.55 sq. Km. 1.2 Socio-economic condition: Like other rural areas of Bagerhat district about 55% (approx.by UP representatives) people are living below poverty line. Main occupations of the population are fishing, fish culture, day labor, port labor, agriculture, honey collection from Sundarban. The main crops are paddy, vegetable, banana and main export item are Fish (Shrimp) and honey. Fishing and fish (shrimp) culture are considered as major livelihood; children are engaged in those activities. Children are deprivation of their rights and those are the main concern of education. There are brac,ASHA,Grameen Bank and some others NGOs who are involved in micro–credit program. Overall the community people socio-economic condition is not good. 1.3 Geography: The union is located in east bank of Passur River and very close to Mongla (Chalna) Sea port. It lies bounded on the north by Sunaitala union, on the east by Mithakhali union, on the south by Chila union and on the west by Monla Port Pourashava and Passur River 1.4 Disaster/ Vulnérabilités: Chandpai union is a highly disaster prone area and get affected very often by Cyclone and tidal surge due to this area is very close to Bay of Bangle. It is situated in the bank of the big River Passure but the embankment was washout at many places 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 push them away towards below poverty line. In the rainy season paddy, vegetable and other crops usually inundate by water logging and fish farmers loss their fishes due to overflow of water. There are 9 Cyclone shelters with the capacity of 7000 only but they have no any killa for protection of Animal. Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) is working on cyclone preparedness and early warning system. They have 9 units with 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 areas in this union. Internal communication is almost good with 13 km carpeting road, 45 km brick soling road, 16 km earthen road and 8 km embankment. Motor cycle and Rickshaw/van are usually used as vehicle within the union. Sometimes people can 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; (Distances are counted from the UP office to the middle of the respective village) Ward Name of Village Distance from Mood of Communication # UP Office 1 Uttar Chandpai 5.00 KM Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 2 Dakhin Chandpai 4.00 Km Jeep, Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 3 Makordone 3.00 KM Jeep, Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 4 Brahmanmath 3.50 KM Jeep, Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 5 Malgazi 3.50 KM Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 6 Uttar Kaimari 0.50 KM Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 7 Kanainagar 3.00 KM Jeep, Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 8 Kalikabari 3.50 KM Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 9 Dakhin Kaimari 2.50 KM Rickshaw/van, Motor Cycle 2. Population Profile: 2.1 Population in general The total population of the union is 17,662 in 4248 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 parishad itself, and number of HH is 4482. 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. 2.2 Child Population: According to the Census 2011, total child population in the union from 0 to 19 years of age are 6,770 which is 38.33% of the total population (from 0 to 4 is 1,360, 5-9 is 1,678, 10-14 is 2,066 and from 15 to 19 is 1,666). Community data provides more age specific information than census data and the total child population from 0 to 18 years of age is 5,542, from 0 to1 year is 386, 1 to 2 years 298, 5 to 6 years 470 and 6 to 10 years 1429. This provides an increased number of populations than Census as usual. Table 1.2 shows the details The details are shown in the Table 1.2 in the Annex I. 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 100* 100* IFA tablets No. of pregnant mothers who have completed 4 ANC visits 100* 97* 03* No. of delivery take place in health centers (institutional delivery) No data No. of 1 year old children having / not having birth certificates 142** 126** 16* No. of birth registration within 45 days of birth 105** No. of 1 year old children who have completed all the vaccines 142* 125 17 and left out No. of children <5 with / without recommended weight and No data height No. of children in PPE/ out of PPE 310* 103* 207* No. of children in / out of school ( Primary) 689* 689* 0* No. of children in / out of school (Secondary) 1384* No. of children engaged in labor 44 ** Children with disabilities 65** No. of children not living with families 27** No. of children below 18 who are married 0 ** No. of households with / without access to safe water sources 4482** 2111** No. of households with / without sanitary latrines 4482** 986** No. of female headed households No data *administrative data, **community data ***BRIS data as of January 2014 The union has 100 pregnant women and as of September 2014 all of them have visited the health center at least once for checkup. However, 97 Pregnant Women have completed 4 ANC visits and only three pregnant women did not receive the full package of the service. None of the health centers in the union have any facility for deliver so no administrative data is available on this indicator. The table above shows that 17 children do not have full coverage of vaccination out of 142 children (Community data). Data are not available on nutritional status of children in any form. Community do not have much idea on this however, they identify healthy (fatty) and unhealthy (thin) children and think that most of the children are healthy. Health centers do not record the height or weight of the children. The table above shows that 16 children of 1 year of age do not have birth certificate out of 142 children (Community data).

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