The concrete bridge that started construction in 2068 is still not built
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Sunil Singh Rajput of Ratuwamai Municipality of Morang was waiting for a boat on the banks of the Kankai River on Sunday afternoon. He was confused when he was going to Jhapa Rural Municipality to give the wedding invitation. He said, "We don't know when the bridge will be built." There was a bamboo shoot, that too was washed away. Now we had to go by boat.
After a single day of rain last week followed by flash floods, people are now forced to board boats to cross the Kankai River, that too at a steep toll. Samirbabu Timsina of Sundar Haraicha left the east-west highway and chose the Hulaki road to travel to Bhadrapur in Jhapa. As the east-west highway expansion would be a lot of trouble, he chose Hulaki as the shortest road to reach Jhapa. When he was found in Kankai Bagar, he regretted and said, 'I came here because I thought there might be a flood of bamboo.'
He came on a motorcycle and crossed the river by boat. I had to pay two hundred rupees for myself and the motorcycle. "It used to be only five, now I have to pay two hundred," he complained. Gourigunj rural municipality gave a contract for the boat to the local Arun Mandal on the condition of paying two hundred and one hundred rupees annually. The same contractor used to collect the money on a bamboo raft, now he is collecting it from a boat. According to Birendra Khadka, information officer of the municipality, the contract will expire from next June. He said, "We are consulting with Jhapa Rural Municipality to build a bamboo bridge for free movement of the people, but the municipality has not yet reached a conclusion." The project costing 330 million is still incomplete even after five extensions. So far only 10 of the 19 spawns have been built. After the construction partner Pappu Company left responsibility in 2075, now Mahadev-Khimti Company is working alone.
Upendra Das, engineer of Postal Road Directorate, Itahari, said, 'Now, time has been requested till 2084. If this is done, the Bhadrapur-Viratnagar journey will be easy. But the local people are losing faith. This pain has been repeated for years in Gaurigunj-Jhapa Bazar section of Hulaki road. Panilal Rajwanshi of Jhapa Bazar, who was coming towards Gaurigunj by boat, said, "Had the bridge been built, the suffering of the people for years would have ended." But so far we are always suffering.'
