India, Feb. 9 -- Several villages in Odisha's Koraput district continue to live without electricity despite high-capacity power transmission lines passing overhead. Bedaguda village under Tankua panchayat in Jeypore block is located barely seven kilometres from the Upper Kolab hydropower project that supplies electricity to large parts of Odisha. Yet, the village itself remains in darkness.
Bedaguda, situated on a hilltop, is home to around 20 families. After repeated demands, electricity has remained a distant dream for the villagers. Four solar lights installed several years ago are now defunct. As a result, life in the village comes to a standstill after sunset.
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