Reckongpeo (Kinnaur/Himachal Pradesh), April 30 -- After 75 years of independence, not a single inch of motorable road has been constructed in the Choura panchayat, located at the gateway to Himachal Pradesh's tribal district of Kinnaur.
Ironically, the historic Hindustan-Tibet Road, built during the British rule, is now under threat of destruction as pipelines are being laid and water chambers constructed along its route.
Locals lament that while post-independence governments failed to provide road connectivity, what the British had built is also being snatched away.
Villages such as Kafoor, Shilani, Choura, Upper Choura, Saudaar, Monyat, and Kaipri within the Choura Panchayat had once hoped to benefit from their strategic location.
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