Jharkhand women use state grant to build road, solve longstanding village crisis

RANCHI: In a first-of-its-kind initiative in Jharkhand, a group of women from Pichulia Tola in Langritanr, under Kanchanpur Block in Palamu district, used part of the financial support provided by the state government under the Maiyan Samman Yojana to construct a 1.5 km approach road to their village.

The women explained they had long struggled due to the lack of proper road access. Vehicles refused to enter the village, forcing residents to walk the entire 1.5 km stretch from the main road. Even bikes found it difficult to traverse the path, and in emergencies, patients, including women in labour, had to be carried on cots suspended from bamboo poles to reach the main road, as ambulances could not access the village.