Short bridges responsible for river choking
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The news item, 'low bridges choke rivers' published in your daily on 9 February, 2011, has drawn my attention. In fact, short bridges, shorter in length than the width of the rivers and canals on which they are constructed, are more responsible than the low bridges for the choking of the rivers and canals. It has become a practice in Bangladesh that when a bridge is constructed over a river or a canal, to save some money or whatever the reason, it is made shorter in length than the actual width of the river or the canal; then the bridge is connected to the road by earth filling on both sides, and thus choking of the river or canal starts.
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