Sunday, June 22, 2008

Ready to be plucked: A village full of virgin men in India

Power problems are big problems in India. But when it leads to a village full of virgin men (maybe?) then it is a seriously big problem.
Villagers of Anmolpur near Lucknow in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are bachelors because the village has no power supply.
This is 60 years after India became independent in a village 20 km from Lucknow, the parliamentary seat of former Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
"Marriage proposals do come but as soon as parents of prospective brides come to know that there is no electricity in the village, they never return," a member of the block development committee, Atul Awasthi said.
Over 75 per cent of the youth in Anmolpur are unmarried, according to residents.
The village has a population of around 1,500.
"An exercise to electrify the village was initiated in 1973 and electric poles were erected with power lines. But power supply was snapped after some years due to reasons unknown to us. There are only seven poles left now in the village," said Awasthi.

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