People in the flood-hit haor areas are facing extreme food-crisis as they have lost their crops, fishes, ducks and other necessaries during the recent flash floods.Boro crops on thousands of acres have been inundated due to the flash floods caused by incessant rain and the onrush of water from upstream just days before the harvesting.Many families with little children are starving as they haven’t enough food though the government provides rice and flour at Tk. 15 and Tk. 17 per kilogram respectively to the flood-affected people through Open Market Sale (OMS).Distressed people are flocking the OMS centres, but many people returned with empty hands as their names were not enlisted.“Waiting in line for about two and half hours, I have been sidelined as my name was not found in the list,” said Abur Rashid, who lost crops on 11 bighas of land and a resident in Matiana Haor area in Tahirpur upazila under Sunamganj district.He, got teary-eyed, said, “My little children have not eaten in the morning. I didn’t get rice from OMS yesterday as my name was not enlisted. I also missed it today.”Rashid, also a school teacher, alleged that all rice and wheat is being sold to the residents around Tahirpur Bazar.Sohel Mia, a farmer from Matiana Haor, expressed his anger, “The government said about relief. Where is the relief? We are getting nothing. Even I don’t get rice to buy from open market.”Tahirpur Bazar OMS dealer Jagodish Roy said, “I have sold rice and coarse flour to 200 people every day since the beginning of the flood. Demand is increasing day by day.”He said, “A total of 400 buyers will get food today, which may cover only half of the people who are waiting in line.”“They became distressed because of hunger. Even the police cannot keep the situation under control,” he added.Tahirpur upazila chairman Kamruzzaman Kamrul thinks that the government relief is not sufficient. He said, “The government provides a family 30 kgs of rice and Tk 500 for a month.”“One kg rice is not sufficient for a five-member family,” he added.(The article originally published in Bangla edition of Jagonews24.com is written in English by Zahidul Islam)