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Kanker: Villagers Become 'Manjhi', Carve Mountain for Road in Remote Pusajhar
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News18•30-09-2026, 09:42
Kanker: Villagers Become 'Manjhi', Carve Mountain for Road in Remote Pusajhar
- •Pusajhar village in Kanker lacks basic facilities like roads, health, and education.
- •With 16 houses and 120 residents, this village awaits development, accessible only via a narrow, difficult path.
- •Once Naxal-affected, the area now faces a new hurdle to development: the absence of a proper road.
- •Villagers themselves carved a path through the mountain, but it's too narrow for construction material vehicles.
- •Dreams of concrete homes, health, and education remain unfulfilled due to the lack of a road; villagers plead for connectivity.
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Pusajhar village is a dependent village of Muragaon Panchayat located in North Bastar Kanker. It has about 16 houses and a population of approximately 120 people.
Due to a lack of government action, the villagers took matters into their own hands and used their own hard work, savings, and voluntary labor to cut through mountains and build a path.
Although the government approved housing for some families, the road built by the villagers is too narrow for tractors, large vehicles, and transport carrying cement, rebar, and sand to reach the village.
