India, Sept. 17 -- Muzaffarabad [PoJK], September 17 (ANI) Residents of Bat Nara, a village in the Lachhrat constituency of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK), have voiced deep frustration over the absence of essential facilities, despite living just three kilometres from the Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project, one of Pakistan's major power-generating projects.

The villagers, numbering in the thousands, remain deprived of electricity, clean drinking water, health services, and functional educational institutions. Residents say the irony is striking: while the Neelum-Jhelum Project generates over 1,000 megawatts of electricity for the national grid, Bat Nara itself remains in darkness.

Education, in particular, is in cr...