“No drinking water connection has been provided to the villages. No garbage collection takes place and sewage overflow is a perennial issue,” said Rampal Singh, a landowner from Dhana.
On April 18, the women wrote a letter to chief minister Raghubar Das, saying they had decided not to vote and go on an indefinite hunger strike to fight the injustice.
The notices were served to meet the directive of a February 8 Supreme Court order to reverse the compensation amount in a time-bound manner by June 30.