Odisha driver pawns wife’s jewellery to build bridge that village needed

BHUBANESWAR: For the last two elections, Ranjit Nayak, a 26-year-old truck driver in Gunjarampanjara village under Kashipur block of Rayagada district heard the local politicians promise about building a permanent bridge over a nearby river that would give the villagers easy access to a government hospital in neighbouring Kalahandi district. Like most villagers, he hoped that the politicians would keep their promise to build a bridge over the Bichhla river that would help his tiny village of 100 families.