Though huge finds were spent to provide basic needs of life, the woes of the villagers living in bodering areas of Raighar block adjacent to Chhattisgarh remain unaltered.

The residents of Borahoguda and Gudipara under Gona panchayat  of Raighar block in Nabarangpur district are still deprived of minimum amenities.

The primary school situated at Gudipara village is the only one for five villages, Borahoguda, Bhatipara, Jampani and Pujharipara, from where students studying in this school.

There is only an 800-meter muddy pedestrian road being crossed by a stream, which is the only way of transportation to village Gudipara.

When rainy season comes, these villages get cut off from the block headquarters in absence of a bridge. Due to lack of communication, locals, including pregnant women, children, ailing persons and senior citizens are dependent on slings and other such modes of transportation to reach the nearby hospitals.

Incidents like pregnant women delivering on the way to hospital, death due to delayed medical facilities and students deprived of going to school are common affairs for the villagers  in rainy season. They said to have approached the local representatives and district administration to do the needful in this regard but in vain.

As communication woes worsened with the advent of monsoon, and the villagers constructed a wooden bridge on the stream by their own expenses.

The local denizens threatened to resort to agitation if their demands are not met early.

When contacted, Nabarangpur district Collector Dr Ajit Kumar Misra said he has sent an action plan to the Government and hopes that a concrete bridge would be constructed soon.