Remote char villagers build bamboo-bridge
Thursday, 4 November 2010
RANGPUR, Nov 3 (BSS) : People of extremely remote and hardly reachable Goytapara char village have set up an example by building a bamboo-made bridge on the river Zinziram resolving communication problems in Roumari Upazila of Kurigram.
Despite some positive changes in their socio-economic status in recent years, education of their children, marketing of the local agro-products and overall developments there remained severely affected for lack of a bridge on the river.
Hundreds of children of several surrounding char villages had been failing to attend their classes in the only educational institution of Goytapara Government Primary School (GPS) mainly due to absence of the bridge.
Under such circumstances, headmaster of Goytapara GPS Fazlul Haque brought the problem to the notice of Community Development Organiser (CDO) of Char Livelihood Programme (CLP) of RDRS Abu Zeyad Biplob working in the area.
Biplob then assessed the problem, started motivating the local people for resolving the issue togather at their own efforts by providing resources and labour, and assured them of all technical supports of CLP and RDRS.
Freedom Fighter Mobarak Ali, Headmaster Fazlul Haque, Assistant Teachers Abul Kalam Azad and Sobur Mian, union members Sobura Khatun and Abul Hossain, Imam Nur Islam and local community leader Afsar Ali also started motivating people.
Local people Rafikul Islam, Mostak Ahmed, Abdul Hakim, Abu Sama, Zahid Ali, Sahmsul Alam, Harunur Rashid, Lilly Begum, Momiron Nesa, Abdul Khaleque, Sadek Ali and many others also expressed their desire to participate in the initiative.
Finally, Abu Zeyad Biplob and his colleague Abul Kalam Azad conducted a final meeting with the local community people and decided to build the 210 feet in length and six feet in breadth bamboo-made bridge in only seven days. Accordingly, the local people donated Tk 19,500 and 1,000 pieces of bamboos and plastic ropes were purchased with the money when 70 labourers of the area worked without wages to complete the work yesterday.
Headmaster Fazlul Haque today told the news agency that five to six male and female students had been getting junior scholarships from his school every year in the past and now, the number will increase, as they would be able to attend classes for the bridge.
Side by side, the overall socio-economic advancements in all spheres in the remote char life would now continue improving because of the better communication facilities created following construction of the bridge on self-help basis, he hoped.
Despite some positive changes in their socio-economic status in recent years, education of their children, marketing of the local agro-products and overall developments there remained severely affected for lack of a bridge on the river.
Hundreds of children of several surrounding char villages had been failing to attend their classes in the only educational institution of Goytapara Government Primary School (GPS) mainly due to absence of the bridge.
Under such circumstances, headmaster of Goytapara GPS Fazlul Haque brought the problem to the notice of Community Development Organiser (CDO) of Char Livelihood Programme (CLP) of RDRS Abu Zeyad Biplob working in the area.
Biplob then assessed the problem, started motivating the local people for resolving the issue togather at their own efforts by providing resources and labour, and assured them of all technical supports of CLP and RDRS.
Freedom Fighter Mobarak Ali, Headmaster Fazlul Haque, Assistant Teachers Abul Kalam Azad and Sobur Mian, union members Sobura Khatun and Abul Hossain, Imam Nur Islam and local community leader Afsar Ali also started motivating people.
Local people Rafikul Islam, Mostak Ahmed, Abdul Hakim, Abu Sama, Zahid Ali, Sahmsul Alam, Harunur Rashid, Lilly Begum, Momiron Nesa, Abdul Khaleque, Sadek Ali and many others also expressed their desire to participate in the initiative.
Finally, Abu Zeyad Biplob and his colleague Abul Kalam Azad conducted a final meeting with the local community people and decided to build the 210 feet in length and six feet in breadth bamboo-made bridge in only seven days. Accordingly, the local people donated Tk 19,500 and 1,000 pieces of bamboos and plastic ropes were purchased with the money when 70 labourers of the area worked without wages to complete the work yesterday.
Headmaster Fazlul Haque today told the news agency that five to six male and female students had been getting junior scholarships from his school every year in the past and now, the number will increase, as they would be able to attend classes for the bridge.
Side by side, the overall socio-economic advancements in all spheres in the remote char life would now continue improving because of the better communication facilities created following construction of the bridge on self-help basis, he hoped.