By Newsgram Staff Writer

After the village transformer stopped working 14 years ago, about 500 people of the Chakshyam village in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district, had to travel more than 1km to charge their cell phone till recent days. Now under the Dr Ram Manoha Lohia Samagra Gram Vikas Yojna, the village has finally got its electricity back, reported an English newspaper

The houses in this village are now being powered by the solar energy."For 60 people living in huts pucca houses, solar panels are being fitted and also roads are being constructed in the village as part of the Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Samagra Gram Vikas Yojna," a state government employee said.

He also mentioned that the majority of the youth are well educated, but they are lagging behind due to the unavailability of electricity.

The people in the village got an opportunity to light their homes in mid 2000 but after three months the transformer stopped working. The power department later fixed it but two months after that it was again out of order, the Times of India report said.

Gram Pradhan Shiv Babu Gupta said, "In these 14 years we complained all the way from the power department authorities to the local MLA but we only got assurances. We had stopped complaining when six months ago officials started visiting our village, and then we got to know that our village has been selected under a state government scheme for solar power."