Local people have constructed a 700-yard bamboo-bridge over a channel of the River Arial
Kha at Muladi in Barisal,
spending Tk 10 lakh from their own fund.
This work was done to observe the 42nd
anniversary of the country’s independence.
‘As local administration failed to
provide fund, we could not set up a concrete bridge. We therefore generated a
fund on our own to construct the bamboo bridge,’ said Sattar,
one of the villagers.
Mezbahuddin
Farhad, local BNP lawmaker, praising the initiative, said as the locals elected
a lawmaker from the opposition party, they were often deprived of development
funds.
‘However I will
manage at least five tonnes of rice for maintenances
of the bridge,’ he added.
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