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For Leisang village in remote Kangpokpi district of Manipur, this tweet opened the floodgate of media attention to their extreme backwardness, deprivation, and difficult lives. For the last 46 years, they have literally lived in darkness, without connectivity, without water supply, without access to quality healthcare. For the children of Leisang, if it were not for the private schools in the neighboring villages, the right to education would have had no meaning. Mid Day Meal is an alien concept with the only accessible government primary school some 3kms away by foot and for the sick and ailing, the only Primary Health Centre is at Waichung, located 8kms away. On 25th April of this year, Leisang came under the national power grid and according to Prime Minister Modi’s Government, it became the last Indian village to be electrified under the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana.

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