Poor roads in Bihar bane of farmers

  • 12/02/2005

  • Tribune (New Delhi)

Two farmers have allegedly committed suicide, as their banana cash crop could not be transported to markets in Varanasi, Patna and other parts of the state, a banana grower Sudish Gupta said Kodha in a choked voice.Poor condition of the National Highway No 31 here has forced farmers of the town to lead a miserable life."We have come under heavy debt as we could not take our crop to markets as the condition of highway from Barauni to Guwahati in Bihar has became so bad that trucks could not transport our crop to the markets', vice-chairman of Simaria panchayat Sushil Kumar Bhagat, alias Ramaji, said.The state government has not done anything to bring us out of the misery, Ramaji stressed.