Hundreds of flood-hit people were still moving to high land and schools, highways and embankments with their belongings and livestock.

At Manikganj town, the district jail, police lines, educational institutions including Debendra College, offices, shops and businesses have gone under knee to waist-deep water. The situation is likely to deteriorate day by day as water level is still rising.

On Dhaka-Aricha highway, the local authorities have stacked sandbags at some points as surging floodwaters were about to swamp the major highway that links the capital to southern and southwestern regions of the country.

The villages on both sides of the highway look afloat.

Mohammad Mohiuddin with his seven-member family from village Nayabari in Shibalaya upazila has taken shelter at Nayabari High School as his house went under water about two weeks ago.

Several hundred people from the same village have also moved to the school, now overcrowded with flood victims.

A number of families, who could not manage a place at the school, made makeshift shelters using plastic and bamboo on nearby Dhushar bus stoppage. As floodwater is still rising, they fear they might have to move elsewhere.

Mohiuddin considers himself fortunate as he got 10 kg of rice on Sunday from a local union parishad member. "It is not much for my seven-member family but I have to make do," he said.

But 55 year-old Minajuddin of village Basail is yet to get any relief.

"Distribution of relief often depends on whims of local union parishad members," he said.

Mihajudin and his six-member family are staying at a makeshift tent at Dhushar bus stoppage.

Another flood victim, Moslem, said, "I had to sell a cow only for Tk 7,000, which I could sell for Tk 12,000 at other times."

Meanwhile, making 'Kosha' (a small boat) is now a booming business in the flood-hit areas since it is the only mode of transport as road communication is snapped.