Hazaribag village braces for annual monsoon ‘lockdown'
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Hazaribag: A total of 100 houses with around 600 residents in Pachanda, located in the Barkagaon block of Hazaribag district, are preparing a list of grocery items and medicines to store for the next three months as their village will be on a "lockdown" because of the monsoon.
Pachanda villagers will be forced inside their area for the next three months until the water level of the rain-fed Haharo River decreases, allowing the path to connect with the rest of the world, to resurface.
The villagers have been demanding a bridge for decades but their pleas went in vain.
Binod Besra, a resident, said, "Pachanda is a village of farmers and daily wage labourers. It has a school named Utkarmit Madhya Vidyalaya Pachanda where students study up to Standard 8.
From Class 9 and onwards, one has to go to Ango, 5 km away, crossing the rain-fed Haharo river. In case of any medical emergency, one has to take the risk of carrying the patients across the swollen river. Luckily, no untoward incident has taken place, so far.
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Mahendra Manjhi, the local mukhiya's representative, said the villagers get locked in the village during the monsoon. "We have another route through the forest area, but it is also blocked by the rain-fed Jhinjhor river during the monsoon, too," he said.
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Mukhiya Neelam Minz said she has taken up the matter regularly with the administration. "It's true that villagers are facing problems, especially during monsoon," she said.
Students Birji Kumari (Class 8) and Anu Besra (Class 4), said for three months during the monsoon, their school remains closed.
"Teachers fail to come due to the swollen river. So, we have a monsoon vacation for three months," they said.
Former Barkagaon MLA Amba Prasad laid the foundation for a bridge last year in August but the project is still to see the light of the day. "I will look into the delay and coordinate with the department to ensure that the work starts at the earliest," Prasad responded when TOI asked her about the status of the bridge.
Barkagaon BDO Jitendra Kumar said, "It is not clear why the bridge work has not started yet. But I will look into the matter."
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