Purbo Chhatnai-8 village situated from Dimla Upazila near about 12 Km distance. This village is nearer from Tista River. It is one of the remotest villages under Dimla Upazila and about 634 HHs are living in this village. More than 80% HHs depend on agriculture day labor. Most of the time this village effected by different disasters such as river erosion, flash flood, drought etc.
During the period of community consultation program staff made discussion with the community people in a small group & identify different issues of livelihood. Just at the time of community consultation with villagers by program staff. Then the villager’s find out their many communal problems, prioritize the problems, root cause analysis as a part of community consultation thorough using the PRA tools. The villager’s realize there major problem is communication problem.
They are decided to make a Bamboo bridge on the Ultavanga rivers of Mohantapara as an entry point. They also revealed that this problem is easily achievable with the efforts of community efforts. In the discussion forum they formed a 15 members implementation committee and responsibility distributed among the committee members considering the geographical pocket of the village. According to the segregation of responsibilities the committee members they collect bamboo from door to door visit, collect hand cash who have no option to donate bamboo to procure rope, GI wire and certain number of community people about 150 committed to pay their labor to make the bridge. As per requirement such as bamboo, rope, GI-wire, labor, the whole committee collected & managed the materials with reasonable hand cash of amounting TK. 440. As a quick win intervention namely 100 meter Bamboo Bridge successfully implemented by the community people of Mohantapara village with the facilitation of SHOUHARDO II Program, JSKS staffs mobilization. It is also an activity of community led approach.
Implementing materials as follows:
1. Big bamboo = 100 nos.
2. Small bamboo = 50 nos.
3. GI wire = 02 Kg
4. Rope = 02 Kg
5. Man days = 50 nos.
Expensed amount of Tk.
1. Big bamboo 100X150 Tk. = Tk. 15,000/-
2. Small bamboo 50X100 Tk. = Tk. 5,000/-
3. GI wire 02X100 Tk. = Tk. 200/-
4. Rope 02X120 Tk. = Tk. 240/-
5. Man days 50X150 Tk. = Tk. 7500/-
Total Tk. = 27,940/-
Purbo Chhatnai village is connected with 05 villages. The villagers are easily movement Kholoni Bazar,Tunir hat & Dimla Upazila .There are access to market and link with different SP’s. The community people are now able to receive different service from NBD.
In future the community people will easily mobilize & by proactive problem solver the community.
After the bamboo bridge is constructing, reflect others community. At a certain Period other’s community initiated the road repairing by community led approach.
