CANACONA, April 22 -- Around 20 families from Endre and Keri of Cotigao Village Panchayat nestled within the Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary live without power or piped water supply and do not even have a proper road!

Despite several promises over the years, these families are compelled to cling to their ancestral ways of living, relying upon jungle deities in the absence of any modern amenities.

Being in the midst of Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary, the panchayat is hamstrung as an approval from the Wildlife Board is mandated even to provide basic amenities thereby leaving the villagers to the mercy of bureaucratic intricacies.

Education is a pipedream for children as the school is at a distance and going there is arduous. That residents of Ker...