SP patriarch's 'Adarsh Village' sees no development!

The residents of Tamauli village from UP's Azamgarh, which was adopted by Mulayam Singh Yadav in 2014, claimed that they haven't seen any development in the past five years. The villagers said that issues for proper sanitation, schools and roads still continue to haunt the village.

Azamgarh: This little village from Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh was adopted by the Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana in the year 2014. However, the village has hardly witnessed any development in the past five years. Yadav had then contested Lok Sabha elections from the Azamgarh district.

People from Tamauli village claim that though the village had been adopted by UP's former CM, not a speck of development has taken place. The village, which houses around 3,633 people, is far from being an 'Adarsh Village', the villagers lament.

Expressed disappointment over Yadav's work, a villager said that the former CM had initially set up a milk dairy in the village that worked for merely two months.

When ETV Bharat asked the villagers about other developmental aspects, it came to fore that the sanitation work and road construction is still under process. A villager, Varun, informed that houses with no toilets still resort to defecating in the open.

A class 11 student from the village revealed that roads to the nearby schools and colleges were ramshackle. Also, with no schools in the village, children walk a distance of almost 3 km to reach there.

People here said they expected all-round development of the village when Yadav adopted the village under the Central government's scheme, but in vain.