As the people of Satpakhali, a model village adopted by Gauhati MP Bijoya Chakravarty under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, get ready to vote, unfulfilled promises weigh heavy on their minds. The Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first Independence Day speech from the Red Fort in 2014. Chakravarty had adopted it as a model village in November 2014 but residents feel the tag is “a travesty of truth”. Echoing him, Deepjyoti Das, a student, said, “When our village was chosen as a model village, our hopes had soared. Jyotish Das, a 50-year-old tea stall owner, said the health sub-centre remained closed on most days of the week.

Source: The Telegraph April 20, 2019 19:18 UTC