Hardly a kilometre away from the Medical Faculty in Assam’s Nalbari city, the journey to Bardhanara village is a protracted and arduous voyage as there are not any roads connecting the village to the town. Sure, house to just one household, Bardhana is certainly one of India’s most distant villages.

Bimal Deka’s household is the lone household that lives on this village underneath the Ghograpar Circle of Nalbari.

In your strategy to this village, chances are high you’ll be greeted by Seuti, the youngest of the household.

“We don’t have any roads in our village. Within the wet season, we commute by boat and through dry occasions we stroll all by way of to highschool. I cycle midway after which take the boat trip to highschool. We desperately want a highway in our village” is her reply in case you ask about roads on this village.

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Deka, the pinnacle of the household, has been dwelling in a kutcha home on this remoted village for the previous 40 years. The household consists of Deka’s spouse Anima and three youngsters Naren, Dipali and Seuti.

“I’ve been right here on this village for the final 40 years. There have been different villagers, however they left. I couldn’t go as I didn’t have the sources to relocate. We’ve a ship to commute and attain the closest market or workplaces. Engineers and native degree officers did go to our village many occasions, they measured the land for the highway however sadly, the highway couldn’t be constructed. Our native consultant didn’t go to us” lamented Deka.

Throughout the wet season, Anima takes the boat, the one signifies that hyperlinks her household with the outer world to drop the kids on the nearest highway and assist them attain their colleges.

At the moment regardless of the challenges and a desolate life, the eldest son and the daughter are graduates and in search of greater training.

Some 12 km from Nalbari, this village was restricted to 16 folks within the 2011 census.

With the huge expanse of agricultural fields, the village was as soon as inhabited by a large inhabitants. Nonetheless, the dearth of a commutable highway pressured folks emigrate.

The household lives with out an electrical energy connection because it has not reached the village but. Arunodya is the one authorities scheme that has benefited the household so far.

Identified for top agricultural yield, former Chief Minister of Assam Bishnuram Medhi visited the Bardhanara village just a few many years again.

“I farm within the agricultural land and rear animals. That is our solely supply of earnings. I do really feel abandoned at occasions however I sincerely consider that if a highway comes up then this village can regain its previous glory” stated Bimal Deka.