NALCHAR: Exposing a stark reality of local administrative neglect, residents of Ward No. 5 in West Durlavnarayan, under the Nalchar Assembly constituency, have taken matters into their own hands. Frustrated by an eight-year-long official gridlock, local families pooled their own financial resources to reconstruct a crucial village road.
Local sources revealed that the road was last brick-soled years ago during the tenure of the previous Left Front government. However, since the current administration took charge, the stretch has faced absolute neglect, with not a single repair brick laid in nearly a decade. Despite the region being represented by an influential cabinet minister’s constituency, residents’ multi-year appeals and formal deputations to the Gram Panchayat Pradhan and local block administration yielded zero results.
Fed up with the unsafe, pothole-ridden commute, 50 local families launched a crowd-funding drive to buy repair materials. Anwar Hossain, Secretary of the DYFI Durlavnarayan Local Committee, joined hands to coordinate the manual labor. The self-funded, community-driven project has ignited sharp public debate, with residents openly questioning why citizens must pay out of pocket for basic infrastructure in a prominent VIP constituency.