Thousands in Morrelganj suffer from broken bridge

Bagerhat Correspondent :

Thousands of people of some ten remote villages like Chandipur, Purbo Chandipur, Bara Jamua, Choto Jamua, Kachiakata, Chargopalpur etc.

within Chingrakhali Union Parishad under Morrelganj Upazila in Bagerhat district have been suffering a lot of inconveniences to cross a broken iron bridge over the canal Daura was broken 4 months ago.

Just after breaking the bridge it was repaired by the villagers with betel-nut trees.

Then the villagers used to cross it (bridge) with risking their lives. But about one month ago the bridge was completely broken.

According to the LGED (The Local Government and Engineering Department), for want of allocation of money the broken bridge cannot be repaired or a new one cannot be constructed there.

So, thousands of villagers, school and Madrasa going girls and boys are forced to cross the canal Daura by boats and consequently, accidents are happened very often.

So, in these circumstances, the suffering villagers are strongly demanding for the repairing of the broken bridge or construction of a new one there without any delay to minimize the sufferings of the villagers and the students. Amena Khatun, a student of Chandipur Govt.

Primary School told, we are suffering a lot of inconveniences for the broken bridge and we are always afraid of accident every day at the time of crossing the canal by boats.

Only a few days ago one of friends fell into the canal from the boat.

Fortunately the boatman recovered her from the canal alive. One Sajib Jomaddar of the same village and a student of Class-X told, sometimes we do not find the boats. Then we are to cross the canal by swimming.

One Aslam Shaikh of village Chandipur told, thousands of people of 10 villages of the 2 sides of the canal Daura are suffering a lot of inconveniences for the broken bridge over the canal.

After breaking the bridge we raised money from the villagers and with the raised money we purchased betel-nut trees.

Then the villagers, somehow, repaired the bridge. But unfortunately that was also broken after a few months. At present boat is the only means for crossing the canal.

Jamal Shaikh, a member of the local Union Parishad told, the matter was brought to the notice of UP Chairman of Chingrakhali, UNO, Morrelganj Upazila and all other concerned authorities. Md. Sharifuzzaman, Executive Engineer of LGED (Local Government and Engineering Department), Bagerhat told, a new bridge will be constructed there in lieu of the broken one.

The Engineer added, all the pre-construction works including soil test were already completed and construction work of the bridge will be started just after the allocation of fund.