Broken wooden bridge only means
More than three hundred families of five villages in Sadar upazila under the municipality are suffering a lot as the only wooden bridge at Uluchara is badly damaged.
The people of Uluchara, Katachari, Alutila, Notun Para and Bidya Nagar villages use the bridge to go to their destinations for daily work.
On a visit to the spot a couple of days ago, this correspondent saw about 150 people of the five villages repairing the bridge.
The villagers said they have been working for nearly one week to temporarily repair the 320-foot-long and 20-foot-wide bridge with wood and bamboo.
Robi Dhan Chakma, karbari (chief of village), said they are repairing the bridge without waiting for any government aid because of the suffering of the villagers.
“Rangamati Hill District Council built the bridge in the 2015-16 fiscal year, but they did not repair it when it was damaged due to the heavy rainfall and landslide last year. So we decided to repair it on our own,” he added.
Binodini Chakma, 45, of Katachari said the children go to school about two kilometres from their village using the bridge, and they are suffering a lot as it is broken.
Romel Chakma, a Class VI student of Moanohar Residential School, said some students were injured while crossing the bridge.
Mayor Akbar Hossain Chowdhury said the zila parishad has allocated funds and work to build a concrete bridge will begin soon.
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