SAHARSA/PURNEA, Feb. 9 -- Despite infrastructure in Bihar getting attention of both the central and state governments and being the focus of the "next stage development", the Kosi-Seemanchal region is still dependent on old-style bamboo bridges to combat annual flooding and facilitating transportation. The issue recently resonated in Parliament when an MP of ruling JD(U) raised it in the ongoing Budget Session.

On February 2, Lok Sabha MP from Madhepura Dinesh Chandra Yadav said on the floor of the House that one-km -long bamboo bridge over a catchment area of the turbulent Kosi river at Hatighat in Saharsa's Nauhatta block nothing but a blot in the face of developed India. He added that though such bridges are lifelines for locals as th...