'Build concrete bridge'
Due to the lack of a concrete bridge over the Lohagora-Kodomtoli canal, people, especially students and elderly people, of eight nearby villages have to cross a damaged bamboo bridge in the area at great risk.
The bridge is situated on the border of Jorgaca and Dikdair unions under Sonatola upazila.
Many students of Nurar Potal Government Primary School, elderly people, patients, traders and farmers of nearby Lohagora, Mohicharan, Nurar Potal, Katlahar, Chillipara, Koyalipara, Laxshinarayanpara and Korpurpara villages use the bridge.
Locals have been demanding construction of a concrete bridge over the canal, but their demand is yet to be fulfilled.
Alam Mia and Rebeka Afroj of Class IV and Keya Khatun and Debashis Roy of Class V of the school said they are afraid of crossing the bridge to go to school.
Aleya Khatun of Nurar Potal village said they send their children to school amid tension as a few students have fallen from the damaged bridge and got hurt.
Locals Mostafizar Rahman, Rafiqul Islam and Nazrul Islam said the bridge turns riskier during the rainy season as the connecting roads become unusable. Many students and elderly people have fallen from the bridge, they added.
Chairman of Jorgaca Union Rostom Ali Mondal said he will try to erect a concrete bridge over the canal during his tenure.
Upazila Engineer of Local Government Engineering Department of Sonatola Shaikat Das said that the construction of the bridge was a burning issue and he had informed the higher authorities about the matter.
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