“…Other places in Assam along the Brahmaputra River (Sharma et al, 2010) and districts like Barpeta (Khan, 2012) and Golaghat (Mili, Acharjee, & Konwar, 2013) faced destructions of road networks, educational infrastructure, homes and agricultural lands. Heavy losses in terms of crops, crop lands, homesteads, livestock and personal property were recorded in the Indian states of Assam (Dekaraja & Mahanta, 2021;Dutta et al, 2020) and Shantipur, West Bengal (Chatterjee & Mistri, 2013) and Bangladesh's Bhola , Mymensingh (Islam, Parvin, & Farukh, 2017), Satkhira, Bagerhat (Islam, 2012b) and Sirajgonj (Rabbi, Saifullah, Sheikh, Sarker, & Bhowmick, 2013) districts, Radhanagar, Bashuria (Islam, Parvin, Emu, & Kabir, 2019a) and Nolian villages (Khan, Nabia, & Rahman, 2018), Durgapasha union (Roy et al, 2017), Kazipur (Haque, 1997;Haque & Zaman, 1989), the Lower Teesta Basin (Ferdous & Mallick, 2019) and floodplains and coastal areas of Bangladesh (Islam et al, 2019b). The vulnerability of the char lands in Bangladesh was underlined by Islam, Singh, Shaheed, & Wei (2010) and Poncelet, Gemenne, Martiniello, & Bousetta (2010) where settlements, various infrastructure and most of all, agricultural lands were lost.…”