Nearly two decades into the 21st Century, two villages in border area of Keran in the frontier district Kupwara are without electricity, residents say.
They say successive governments have ignored their consistent pleas. Among the residents of the two villages students suffer more acutely.
Ishtiyaq Ahmad of Dhani village said he recently shifted to Kupwara town miles away from home to be able to continue his studies.
“My studies are suffering as we have to use the old traditional ways of lighting our homes after dark falls,” Ahamad said, adding his village receives just three hours of electricity supplky a day from a generator set in two shifts. Residents are forced to live a primitive lifestyle without electricity supply in the modern digital age.
