Haldibeda, a remote village, surrounded by forests and hills in Gurundia block, with 120 residents, does not have an all-weather road and access to drinking water facility.
The children of the village walk almost 3km to Kedughati village to attend their school. Similarly, the villagers also walk down to the same village to procure their daily consumables.
Significantly, there is not a single tube well in the village, due to which the villagers depend on traditional wells and streams.
In Sanburda village in Jarda panchayat of the block, where 50 families live, there is no road, too. The residents have to cross a stream over an electric pole to move outside.
According to sources, the nalla is 200 meter wide and due to non availability of a check dam and a bridge over it, the villagers have little option than to fall back on the electric pole to reach their panchayat office and outside areas. The elderly persons are particularly vulnerable to the situation as they can’t reach to the panchayat office to get old age pension.
There are also some other villages such as Kantamunda and Ulundajharan village in Sole panchayat, Kunjar village in Tamparkela panchayat, where the villagers are facing difficulties due non availability of a proper road to go to their panchayat for their day-to-day work.
Rankey village in Pankadih panchayat and Padmapur village in Chandiposh panchayat have also no proper road. There is also one Taldihi village which is one of the most inaccessible areas of the district. Significantly, about two months ago, one pregnant woman had been lifted on a stretcher by her family members and villagers for about 5km to a PHC for her delivery.
Significantly, about two months ago, Sundargarh Collector SK Meena had visited a few inaccessible areas in Tangerpali and Lepripada blocks in a bike as a pillion rider to interact with the villagers to provide them basic facilities.