‘Matter Of Nice Pleasure’: THIS Indian Village Sheds Darkness, Will get Electrical energy For First Time After Independence | India Information

In a major milestone, a distant village in Chhattisgarh lastly acquired electrical energy for the primary time for the reason that nation’s independence. Chilkapalli village, situated about 50 km from the Bijapur district headquarters, had been with out electrical energy since independence. Chilkapalli village was electrified beneath the Niyad Nellanar Yojana. That is the sixth village in Bijapur to be electrified beneath the scheme. 

Expressing pleasure over the electrification of the village, Bijapur Collector Sambit Mishra said that the electrification of extra villages is deliberate within the coming months. Bijapur Collector Sambit Mishra informed ANI, “It’s a matter of nice pleasure that electrification came about in Chilkapalli village on January 23. That is the sixth village the place we’ve accomplished electrification, and we hope that within the subsequent few months, we are going to electrify extra villages systematically as quickly as potential.”

The electrification of Chilkapalli village is a part of the Chhattisgarh authorities’s ‘Niyad Nellanar’ Yojana beneath Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai. It goals at offering fundamental facilities to tribal villages in distant areas. This initiative seeks to make these villages “perfect villages” by offering important companies akin to housing, electrical energy, ingesting water, roads, bridges, and faculties.

For the residents of Chilkapalli, electrical energy has considerably improved their day by day lives. “Earlier there was no electrical energy right here. Now electrical energy has come, it’s good for cooking meals, it is usually good for youngsters to review at evening,” stated a tribal girl, as quoted by ANI.

One other resident of Chilkapalli village expressed her pleasure over her village getting electrical energy saying, “Now that we’ve electrical energy, we will watch TV, cook dinner, and even enterprise out at evening with out worry.” The village is about 50 km from the Bijapur district headquarters and is a part of the Phutkel Panchayat. Till now, a paved highway has not linked the village.

An worker of the electrical energy division in Bijapur, Faldoor, said that commuting to arrange electrical energy in Chilkapalli village was troublesome, and it took 3-4 months for electrical energy to achieve there. “Commute was troublesome (with out electrical energy). The federal government officers talked to the villagers after which arrange electrical energy right here. The villagers say that now that the federal government has offered electrical energy, they’ll defend themselves from snakes and scorpions. It took 3-4 months for electrical energy to achieve right here,” Faldoor stated.

Not solely has electrical energy lastly reached this inaccessible village surrounded by Naxal issues, however the deployment of the CRPF has additionally eliminated the darkish shadow of Maoism, which had beforehand plagued the realm. Notably, Sai had earlier reaffirmed the state’s sturdy stance in eradicating Maoism, describing it as most cancers to society.

“Our troopers have achieved enormous success and our authorities is working to finish the Naxalism. Maoism is sort of a most cancers and we are going to achieve destroying it utterly. We’ll fulfil the decision of the PM and the HM. I salute the braveness of our safety pressure personnel and reward them… Naxalism is taking its final breath and we are going to finish it by 31 March 2026,” stated Sai.

(With ANI Inputs)