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Thousands in three villages suffer for want of a bridge

Collapsed during 2012 flooding, yet to be rebuilt

ABM AMINUL Islam, Jamalpur
Thousands of people of three villages in Melandah upazila are suffering much as the bridge over Datbhanga river that collapsed during floods in 2012 is yet to be rebuilt.
Commuters from Amirti, Charalkandi and Charsaguna under Ghosherpara union are facing severe problems in reaching destinations through Amirti-Khayerpara-Beltoli Bazar road. They now use a 1.5km-long alternative way which is lengthy and more troublesome as villagers have to cross crop fields or walk by river bank.
Patients, school, college
students, kids and farmers who need to carry their agro-products to local markets for sale, are the worst sufferers because of the disrupted communication, locals said.
As Beltoli Government Primary School, Beltoli High School and a qawmi madrasa are located near the bazar, several hundred students of the villages often cannot attend classes on time due to the bad communication since the collapse of the bridge, said Gulzar Hossain and Mizanur Rahman, head teachers of the primary school and the high school respectively.
Villagers face an uphill task when they are in need of taking their patients,
particularly pregnant women and old-aged relatives, to the upazila health complex and to Jamalpur General Hospital for emergency treatment as no rickshawas or rickshaw-vans can ply through the alternative path, said local elite Abdullah master of Amirti village.
During a recent visit to the spot, farmers Motahar Hossain, 50, Toiyoz Uddin, 60 and Abdur Rouf , 40 of Amirti village told this correspondent that the growers of the three villages face untold sufferings while taking their products to Beltoli Bazar and Hazrabari Bazar for sale during weekly market days.
The bridge at Amirti must
be rebuilt soon as over 20 thousand people of the villages cannot bear the problem any more, said the sufferers.
Moreover, services provided by Ghosherpara union to the beneficiaries of the villages are being hampered for the situation, said the UP chairman Obaidur Rahman.
Contacted, Md. Mubarak Hossain, LGED engineer of the upazila, said the tenure of the scheme that was taken up by the government for constructing a bridge had already expired.
“We can now send a fresh proposal to the higher authorities concerned to build a bridge by extending time of the scheme, he said.