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Eighty-year-old Narayan Chandra Jena, a two-time Sarpanch of Barasahi village under Oarati Panchayat, Nischintakoili block in Cuttack, sits beneath a roof patched with straw and hope, one that leaks with every rainfall and threatens to collapse at any time.
Once a community leader who enabled housing and pension schemes for others, Jena today finds himself excluded from the very systems he once helped implement, according to reports.
Despite having led his panchayat twice and overseeing a range of welfare initiatives from ensuring Indira Awas Yojana homes for the poor to facilitating old-age pensions, Jena now lives in a dilapi...