Hardly a kilometre away from the Medical School in Assam’s Nalbari city, the journey to Bardhanara village is a protracted and arduous voyage as there aren’t any roads connecting the village to the town. Sure, residence to just one household, Bardhana is one in all India’s most distant villages.

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

In your solution to this village, chances are high you’ll first greeted by Seuti, the youngest of the household. She was getting back from her college.

“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 to highschool. I cycle midway after which take the boat journey to highschool. We desperately want a highway in our village” mentioned Seuti.

Deka, the pinnacle of the household, has been residing in a kutcha home on this remoted village for the previous forty years. The household consists of Deka’s spouse Anima and three kids 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 assets to relocate. Now we have a ship to commute and attain the closest market or workplaces. Engineer 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.

Through 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 faculties.

Right now regardless of the challenges and a desolate life, the eldest son and the daughter are graduates and searching for increased schooling.

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

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

Recognized for top agricultural yield, former Chief Minister of Assam Bishnuram Medhi visited the Bardhanara village just a few a long time 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” mentioned Bimal Deka.