A three-year wait for clearance from the Narendra Modi government for a bridge to connect Gadkhali and Gosaba in South 24-Parganas has become a major issue in the Gosaba bypoll on October 30.
The proposed bridge over the confluence of four rivers, Durgaduani, Hogol, Vidyadhari and Kartoa is expected to overhaul the socio-economic scenario in remote Sunderbans. Right now, it takes around 30 minutes to cross the confluence of four rivers and reach Gosaba from Gadkhali. Once the bridge gets constructed, travel time will be cut down to three minutes.
The bypoll in Gosaba was necessitated as victorious Trinamul MLA Jayanta Naskar died of Covid in June this year. Naskar had defeated his closest rival, Barun Pramanik of the BJP, by over 23,000 votes.
