No power, yet pay electricity bills.
This seems to be the fate of tribal villagers in Jharkhand’s four hamlets of Kashiapecha village under Chotta Nagra police station area in the dense Saranda forest of West Singhbhum district, around 190 km from state capital Ranchi.
Kasiapecha village head Singa Soren said that there are over 125 houses in the four hamlets of Pentotola, Mundatola, Kuntuburutola and Baisautola in the forest terrain.
“Electricity came to our village in 2016 but due to some or other reasons, electricity supply got disrupted barely a month after. There were some technical snags in the transformer or at some locations electricity wires got uprooted and were not repaired as state electricity department officials seldom come to the villages due to lack of proper roads.
