Village in J&K’s Doda gets electricity for the first time

Ganouri-Tanta village in the mountainous Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir saw the light of an electric bulb for the first time on Sunday, ending the decades of darkness from the lives of the villagers.

The electrification work of the village was taken up on the order of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, after a group of locals put forward the demand before him at the last “LG Mulaqaat” programme, an official spokesperson said.

The LG asked the Doda district administration to ensure electrification of the village within a month.

Thanks to the quick action by the district administration, the herculean task of electrifying the remote village was completed in a record time of 15 days.