A boy in Bangor village in Bihar's Saharsa district holds homemade lamps called dibiya in the local language. The make is similar to a Molotov cocktail. The village is on a large sand bar in the middle of the Kosi river. Over 100 villages in the the sand bar do not have power supply.
A boy in Bangor village in Bihar's Saharsa district holds homemade lamps called dibiya in the local language. The make is similar to a Molotov cocktail. The village is on a large sand bar in the middle of the Kosi river. Over 100 villages in the the sand bar do not have power supply.
A boy in Bangor village in Bihar's Saharsa district holds homemade lamps called dibiya in the local language. The make is similar to a Molotov cocktail. The village is on a large sand bar in the middle of the Kosi river. Over 100 villages in the the sand bar do not have power supply.
Ramkali, 55, a Gond woman from Chandragarh village in Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh, cooks on a chulha or clay oven despite being a beneficiary of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, the government's welfare scheme which aims at providing 50 million LPG connections to women from families below the poverty line. Ramkali's LPG cylinder has been lying in one corner of the kitchen for the past three months as it has been eshausted. She is not refilling as it is expensive.