UP set to demolish Nepal border bridges
The Akhilesh Yadav government has ordered that all illegal wooden bridges, along the porous UP-Nepal border, used to smuggle goods, should be dismantled at the earliest.
These wooden bridges, built by the local residents, are used to smuggle fertilisers, cement and foodgrains across the border.
Majority of these bridges are built on the Mohana river which demarcates the borders between Lakhimpur Kheri and Nepal. Tractor trolleys, loaded with goods, were recently caught on camera, wading through the shallow waters of the Mohana.
“For years, we have been asking the government to build a bridge and finally we did it ourselves. We have to cross the river several times a day because people go across to collect firewood, take cattle for grazing and some even go there to work as labourers. A large number of people come from the other side to work here. Dismantling the bridges will only earn the wrath of the local people and will not solve the problem as the river is quite shallow except in monsoon,” said a local resident.
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