<i>Self-help still the best help</i>
Jhenidah villagers raise fund and repair their road themselves
People of Ullah village in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenidah join hands to repair a local road themselves and at their own cost.Photo: STAR
People of Ullah village under Kaliganj upazila of the district have started repairing a dilapidated road at the village on a voluntary basis. Failing to get money from the government, the villagers raised a fund and purchased bricks, sand and other materials to rebuild the road. While visiting the area yesterday, this correspondent saw several hundred villagers kept themselves engaged in repairing nearly a one kilometer road from Dighirpar to Ullah Madrasa. “We repeatedly appealed to the upazila administration to allocate fund for this road, but to no effect. As the road needs urgent repair before full-scale onset of the monsoon, we have joined hands to do the job,” the villagers said. When it rains, the road gets muddy and dangerous for the school kids and the villagers. It develops big holes and becomes tough for the villagers to carry vegetables and paddy to the upazila market for sale. Manik Joarder of Ullah village said farmers face great trouble in carrying goods to market as shallow engine-driven tractors and rickshaw vans cannot ply the road during the rainy season. “Since we cannot wait for long for allocation of fund, we have started rebuilding the road on self-help basis,” Joarder said. Local UP chairman Shahidul Islam said the people of Ullah village have taken a novel initiative without depending on the government. He thanked the villagers and assured them of all-out cooperation.
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