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The collapsed bridge on the Pasimuthan canal in Thillainayagapuram village near Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu has not yet been reconstructed, even after 13 years of the bridge collapse. When the rainy season arrives villagers of North Thillainayagapuram are virtually cut off from rest of the world as they don't have any alternative bridge to cross the canal.

The villagers urged the authorities concerned to construct a bridge immediately on the canal and make a link to the outer world. If this bridge is constructed, it will be easy for us as well as for our children to go to school, say the villagers.

Now, the residents of the village scared to send their children to school because of lack of a safe passage across the Pasimuthan canal. North Thillainayagapuram village near Chidambaram houses about 50 families at the opposite side of the canal. After the collapse of the bridge the residents of the village are forced to cross the canal by wading through the waters.

But during the rainy season, they cannot go to shops, schools or to any place If they want to go compulsorily they have to cross a four kilometer-stretch through Manalur village. It is difficult and also dangerous to cross the canal floods during rainy season.