On a Mud Strip Over an Unbridgeable River, Lalu is Vikas Purush

Villagers in the Diyara area have to either use a mud bridge or an expensive boat to cross the river.

Just a few minutes away from the wide four-lane streets of the Danapur Cantonment, less than a 100 meters of water has been causing havoc in the lives of 500,000 people. In Digha on the outskirts of Patna, a relatively small stretch of the Ganga has the local population at its mercy.

Across the river in the Diyara area, there are approximately fifty villages and around 50,000 people. For half the year, there is no way to cross the river except by a boat that charges Rs 10 per trip, a hefty amount for many of its passengers who often earn only Rs 100 a day.