Putting their lives at risk, around 40 students of the Padiari School in Astaranga block of Puri district had to take a ferry ride on a foggy morning to appear in the annual HSC Examination that began on Friday.
With no road connectivity due to the half-built Biju Setu over the Devi river at Talada, the students had no option but to take a boat ride to reach the examination centre at the Surendra Nath Vidyapeeth.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had laid the foundation-stone for the bridge in 2014. The project was scheduled for completion last year. But it is still lying incomplete for reasons best known to the officials concerned.
Once completed, the bridge would connect Jagatsinghpur and Puri districts.