After waiting for years villagers build bamboo bridge over Kalapani River

A CORRESPONDENT

TANGLA: The 17 years of Bodoland People's Front (BPF) government could not change the fate of the villagers of Uttar Chabukdara, a hamlet under Khoirabari BTC constituency, as the villagers' repeated pleas of construction of a bridge fell into deaf ears. There is no bridge over Kalapani River which flows through the middle of the village owing to which the inhabitants of the village spent their hard-earned money to construct a bamboo bridge. "The villagers have formed a committee to construct the bamboo bridge and have collected money from households," said Bhabesh Rabha, a villager.

President of the construction committee, Sanjit Rabha said, "We grew up in this village and our childhood dream of a concerte bridge remains unfulfilled. The public representatives visit us and assure of the needful and even prepare proposal estimates but they never materialize."