"The flood has turned my life upside down, I now sit all alone on the roof and try to see water to the horizon," sighs Jobeda. "My son moved his children to his in-laws' house, he and his wife remain busy preparing food and I wait for them to join me," she adds.

At night, Jobeda tries to sleep through the anxiety on a lifted bed in her house.

Like Jobeda, floods have hit hard some 2,000 flood-affected families out of 2,500 in the neighbourhood while affecting half of the 1,500 families in the nearby Owajpur village.

"The river Turag rose about [15 to 22 feet] submerging one-third houses of the village," said boatman Samiuddin, a resident of Bachhila. "Floodwaters rose about a foot today, which is a bad news for Rayerbazar-Mohammadpur embankment," he added.

Residents of hundreds of houses have deserted the inundated area. The ground floors of the multistoried houses have gone totally under water while the floodwaters are about to reach the rooftops of the single-storied ones.

"We have had no choice but to drink the river water since all the tube-wells in the village are under water," said Sajol, a local. "We do not have any supply of contamination-free water from outsides, we are mixing alum with water and drinking it for last couple of days," he added.

Some flood-hit people moved to the city while some are living on mancha (platform on stilts), having sent their children to nearby villages.

"I have sent my kids to nearby Owajpur village and am living with my husband to guard the valuables," said Acchia, pumping out water from the only tubewell that has survived the deluge, so far.

Waterborne diseases are yet to spread in the village though most people are forced to go to the toilet in the open. Both the primary and high schools of Bachhila remained close since the floodwaters started pouring in and have been turned into shelter camps.