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Road condition deplorable, business faces deadlock

From Our Correspondent
GAIBANDHA, Feb 17: They trade an'd commerce of the district has been facing a deadlock situation due to disruption of the road communi cation.
Out of seven upazllas. road link of four upazllas are still lying snapped with the district head quarters for their dilapidated condition. The road links of these upazllas were damaged due to natural calamities and turned deplorable for want of timely renovation.
Many bridges and culverts at different points along the roads collapsed long ago which could not be renovated due to fund constrain.
There arc only 20 roads in district. Of them seventy kilometers are metalled and remaining 62 kilometers are haring-bone roads. But a large portion of sakl roads are not worthy for the vehicular traffic.
From Our Correspondent:
In many places large scale pot holes and ditches have developed due to long absence of repairing.
Besides, a total of 31 bridges was damaged by the floods.
Moreover, there are Innumerable union parishad roads constructed under Food for Works Programme could not serve its purpose for unplanned construction.
The metalled and haring-bone roads were constructed 15 years back which is now. turned into a deplorable condition. These are: SundcrganJ-Bamondanga. Galbandha-Ramchandrapur and Gaibandha-Rosulpur roads tliat could not be renovated as yet. The bricks of said roads arc being lifted by the corrupt persons.
Roads and Highway Department undcrk a brick laying work In Gaibandha-
Mathcrhat-SunderganJ road sometimes past but during the tenure of four years the department completed only four-kilometre road.
Laxmlpur-Kamarjanl and Laxmipur-Shovaganj road link still lying disrupted due to damaging of two bridges at Lengakhal. flic people of those areas are facing untold suffering as the concerned authorities yet to undertake reconstruction work of collapsed bridges.
On the otherhand construction of Gaibandha-Nakaihat-Gobindaganj could not be started due to negligence of concerned authority.
The concerned authorities remained silent over the issue. The road construction programme should be geared up 1n the district with a view to creating normalcy of communication as well as the trade and commerce of the district.