Dwarkuchi- Rangapani-Kaurbaha connecting bamboo bridge swept away in Tamulpur

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BAKSA: A bamboo bridge over Baroliya River at Lachighat near Dwarkuchi in Tamulpur subdivision was swept away on Saturday due to the flood water of Baraliya.

Thousands of people in areas of Tamulpur, Dwarkuchi, Lachi, Galbera, North Galbera, Rangapani, Kaurbaha, Gandhibari, Goreswar were blocked on Saturday as the bamboo bridge was swept away at Lachighat on Dwarkushi-Rangapani-Kaurbaha link road.

A few years ago there was a wooden bridge over the Barliya River in Lachighat but due to non-maintenance, it became shabby and communication was stopped due to overtaking of the Baraliya River.

The local people of the area on both sides of the river then made a bamboo bridge over the river and continued communication. Thousands of common people in many villages as well as school-college students and patients were stopped for their way in the first flood of the year today. At the same time, Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and BTC chief Pramod Boro have been requested to construct an RCC bridge on Dwarkuchi- Rangapani-Kaurbaha road by ABMSU general secretary Taison Hussain, Tamulpur district ABMSU president Badruddin Khan as well as local people in the area.

Hussain said, "For the last several years, we have been demanding construction of an RCC bridge over the Baroliya River. In the last 17 years, the BPF-led BTC government did not pay any importance to constructing an RCC bridge here. We hope that now BTC chief Pramod Boro will do the needful to construct an RCC bridge here and find a permanent solution to it."

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