Students of different educational instituions have started working to repair dilapidated roads with a view to minimising the sufferings of the people in Panchagarh. With self-financing, they brought brick chips to fill the pothholes.
The students repaired around half-kilometer road by filling brick chips from Upazila Parishad gate to Bir Muktijoddha Sirajul Islam Stadium in the municipality area on Sunday. Other important roads will be repaiered gradually, they said.
Honours student of Panchagarh Mokbular Rahman Government College and Kayet Para Jubo Songho representative Habibur Rahman Habib said with the initiative Kayet Para Jubo Songho we the students are working to repair roads. Hundreds of people and vehicle move on Upazila Parishad-Stadium road of Kayet Para. As municipality authorities did not repair the road for 10 years, several pothholes were created in several places of the road. So, people suffer due to this. The situation deteriorates in the rainy season. Pedestrains suffer as the pothholes fill with rainwater. Upazila Parishad can not repair the road as it is a municipality area. We have taken the initiative to repair the roads of the municipality area.
Student Safik Islam Badhan said locals, including students, expressed unity with our operation. Hopefully, with the assistance of everyone, we will newly beautify the country.
Shiuli Begum Hena, a housewife of Kayet Para, said we have been using this road for a long time. The road has become unsuitable for vehicular movement as municipality did not repair the road on time. We welcome this initiative of the students. The students will beside with good work if we support them.
