Only Statue, No Development, Say Locals At PM Modi's Adopted Village

A plush urban park with a statue of Bhim Rao Ambedkar: That's the biggest thing the Dalit settlement of Uttar Pradesh's Nagepur claim they have received from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The village, 10 km from Varanasi, is the second one adopted by the PM under the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, launched in 2014. "Only this statue has come up, but nothing else. For instance, toilets have not been built in our locality at all," said Ram Raj, earlier a weaver of Banarasi sarees, now a farm-labourer.