In Keonjhar, a vulnerable tribal group languishes without water, electricity

Bhubaneswar | Sunday | 31st March, 2019

Summary:

Other Juanga villages have better facilities than us, we don’t know why,” said Ramesh Juanga. Apart from a road that passes through the village, no other facility — including clean drinking water, electricity or healthcare — has touched it. Keonjhar: The members of the Juanga tribe, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), said netas visited them only before the elections and did a disappearing act in the years in between. They have schools and anganwadis in all villages and boring water facility has also been made available.” “We finish our work by evening and go to sleep as we don’t have an electricity connection..