Five bamboo bridges for flood-hit people

Fulchhari upazila administration has constructed five bamboo bridges on temporary basis on different roads, that got damaged following breach of Ratanpur flood control dyke at Singira, to restore communications between the upazila and district headquarters.

Of the bridges, one was constructed at Purbo Salua and two at Hatathpara on Fulchhari-Goonvari road, one at Hajirhat on Goonvari-Badiakhali road and another at Dhakkhin Burail on Kalirbazar-Machervita road.

During the last flood, breaches developed in the dyke on the bank of the river Jamuna, damaging 35 kilometres of roads. Five concrete bridges collapsed and a bailey bridge was affected partially due to high velocity of surging water.

Hasan Ali, a rickshaw-van puller of Purbo Salua village, said they had to face acute financial crisis as they could not ply the rickshaw-van in the area after collapse of the concrete bridges.

Upazila engineer of Local Government Engineering Department AKM Akhterul Ahsan said they have already written to the higher authorities for fund to construct new concrete bridges but to no effect yet.