Dilapidated for two years
Around five km of the busy Ujirpur- Harta road, connecting Barisal with several upazilas, have remained dilapidated for two years, causing sufferings to thousands of people.
The road connects the district town and different unions of Ujirpur upazila.
The 27 km Ujirpur-Harta road is in bad condition and the five km section from Dhamura College gate to Cherakhali has deteriorated over the last two years.
Due to heavy rainfall, mud, waterlogging and lack of maintenance by the authorities concerned, many cracks and potholes have developed on this part of the busy road.
The situation turned from bad to worse after heavy rainfall this year.
Thousands of passengers, especially women and patients, who travel through this section go through a bad experience due to the state of the road.
Plying of loaded trucks stopped one year ago due to the bad shape of the road, said a trader at Dhamura bazar.
Noton Das Gupta uses the road to go to college from his residence in Ujirpur. He said the road has become unusable and may cause accidents.
The vehicles get stuck in a gridlock on the road, sometimes throughout the day, since they need to ply slowly and take much time due to the dilapidated road.
Abdul Hakim, a freedom fighter in Dhamura union, said villagers appealed to the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Barisal one year ago to reconstruct the road, but did not get any response.
Miraj, supervisor of a local bus, said around 16 local buses and hundreds of three-wheelers ply the road every day, and traffic sometimes gets stuck due to the bad condition of the road.
The bus owners' association repaired the road temporarily with bricks and sand for continuation of bus service, he added.
Locals blamed the poor repair work that was done three years ago for the present situation.
District LGED Deputy Assistant Engineer Humayun Kabir said the government has planned to widen the road from10 feet to 16 feet and called a tender of Tk 4.5 core for repairing the five km dilapidated road.
He said repair work will start within three months.
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