No Electricity In Up Villages

The flood situation in Bihar remained grim on Sunday with more than 80 lakh people across 16 districts affected. On the other end of the country, in Gujarat, several areas were pounded by heavy rain that swelled up rivers and put more than 100 dams on a high alert. Over 1,000 villages in 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh too have been affected by flood...

Protests erupted in two interior villages of Manipur demanding electrification of the areas reeling under darkness since Independence.

PC Mohanan grew up in a village without electricity, studied statistics at a public university, and then spent more than three decades crunching numbers for the government. But in the past week, the mild-mannered official has been caught up in a political storm that has threatened to undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government months before...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today announced that his government has extended electricity to all the 1.39 crore households in the state much ahead of the December 31 deadline, an achievement that will go a long way in empowering its residents.

When electricity finally arrived four months ago in the Kachan village in Sonbhadra, the second largest district of Uttar Pradesh, 35-year-old Mumtaz Hussain bought a freezer and started a soft drink shop.

While the electric poles were set up in Uttar Pradesh's Karela Village 10 years ago, electricity is yet to reach the villagers.

Uttar Pradesh Social Welfare Minister Gulabo Devi has ordered the registration of an FIR against two employees of a residential school in Sinhawali village in Sambhal after gross anomalies were found during an inspection.

For three months in 1995, Afaur village in Bihar's Saran district had electricity. Villagers fondly talk about fans that worked light at night and watching television much like they would recount the fleeting visit of a celebrity. Fleeting it was. One day they woke up to no electricity and for 17 years they have lived without.

Uttar Pradesh's failing healthcare system exposed once again. First there was the Babu Banarsi Das hospital in Bulandshahr where a ward boy and sweeper doubled up as doctors. They were filmed stitching up patients. Now Sardhana town's only primary healthcare centre which is the only hospital for 12 villages around it, has in its 5 years of existen...

The flood situation in Bihar remained grim on Sunday with more than 80 lakh people across 16 districts affected. On the other end of the country, in Gujarat, several areas were pounded by heavy rain that swelled up rivers and put more than 100 dams on a high alert. Over 1,000 villages in 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh too have been affected by flood...

Protests erupted in two interior villages of Manipur demanding electrification of the areas reeling under darkness since Independence.

PC Mohanan grew up in a village without electricity, studied statistics at a public university, and then spent more than three decades crunching numbers for the government. But in the past week, the mild-mannered official has been caught up in a political storm that has threatened to undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government months before...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today announced that his government has extended electricity to all the 1.39 crore households in the state much ahead of the December 31 deadline, an achievement that will go a long way in empowering its residents.

When electricity finally arrived four months ago in the Kachan village in Sonbhadra, the second largest district of Uttar Pradesh, 35-year-old Mumtaz Hussain bought a freezer and started a soft drink shop.

While the electric poles were set up in Uttar Pradesh's Karela Village 10 years ago, electricity is yet to reach the villagers.

Uttar Pradesh Social Welfare Minister Gulabo Devi has ordered the registration of an FIR against two employees of a residential school in Sinhawali village in Sambhal after gross anomalies were found during an inspection.

For three months in 1995, Afaur village in Bihar's Saran district had electricity. Villagers fondly talk about fans that worked light at night and watching television much like they would recount the fleeting visit of a celebrity. Fleeting it was. One day they woke up to no electricity and for 17 years they have lived without.

Uttar Pradesh's failing healthcare system exposed once again. First there was the Babu Banarsi Das hospital in Bulandshahr where a ward boy and sweeper doubled up as doctors. They were filmed stitching up patients. Now Sardhana town's only primary healthcare centre which is the only hospital for 12 villages around it, has in its 5 years of existen...