Perks, pitfalls of being Narendra Modi's adopted villages

Most of the villages in Varanasi now have tapped water, but wastage remains a big concern

Not often does a hamlet of a few hundred families get a prominent directional signboard, usually reserved for district headquarters and big cities on the highway. But Nagepur in the district of Varanasi isn’t an ordinary village. It’s one of the four adopted by Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi as part of a Central scheme named Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. Adopted in 2016, Modi sanctioned three major projects — an Ambedkar statue with a couple of benches emblazoned with the PM’s name, a water tank with a pipe to most households, and a creche for pre-schoolers called Nand Ghar.

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