Story of two By-products

Harpur Bochhan is a panchayat of Vidyapatinagar block, Samastipur. There is a railway line bisecting the habitants of the panchayat and their agriculture field. Because of the railway line, peasants used to face problems in carrying crops. In gramsabha meetings peasants emphasized on the scheme for making roads to carry their crops. To connect the hamlet to the farms scheme no. 145/16-17 was taken with the estimated cost of Rs 829300. The location selected, was near a canal type structure which was silted. To make the road it was decided to take the excavation from the canal itself. The road was measured to be of 1,800 feets in length. Making this road created a space of about 21,600 cubic feets for water conservation free of cost. This was how the job of making road from the village to the railway line was completed in the first phase.

Then in the following financial year, i.e the current year (17-18) scheme no. 3/17-18 was taken with the estimated cost of Rs. 935900 to make the road connecting the railway line to the agricultural fields located  about 2000 feets apart, which was also besides a canal type structure. Following the same process of making road, the canal structure was renovated in about 2,000 feets. In this way, in the second phase a space of about 24,000 cubic feets was created for water conservation.  

Ultimately, in making the road to connect the residential area of the village to the agricultural fields an additional space of about 36,6T00 cubic feet was made to conserve water, absolutely free of cost.