Baripada: The State Government has completed electrification in a portion of Uparbeda, the ancestral village of NDA presidential candidate, Draupadi Murmu, in Mayurbhanj district. The action was expedited following media reports about people in the village living without electricity.
Murmu does not stay in the village and has shifted to Rairangpur, 20 kms away from her native Dungurisahi in Uparbeda.
As per reports, Tata Power North Odisha Distribution Limited (TPNODL) officials arrived at Uparbeda with thirty-eight electric poles and 900-meter cables, conductors, and transformers with machines on Saturday to carry out electrification work.
The Uparbeda village in Kusumi block has two villages Badasahi and Dungurisahi. While Badasahi is fully electrified, Dungursahi was yet to get electrified.
Murmu’s nephew Biranchi Narayan Tudu who lives at Dungursahi village along with his wife and two children, said they had requested authorities to provide electricity to Dungursahi where about 20 families live.
