Adopted by Islamabad to be developed as a model village, it gets solar electricity due to initiatives by The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), more roads and even an irrigation project.
While much has been made of this goodwill gesture by the Pakistani government, the Indian government's record of taking care of prime ministerial villages leaves much to be desired.
The government has lovingly preserved the Nehru-Gandhi family's ancestral house Anand Bhawan and turned it into a memorial. But a few kilometers away, Lal Bahadur Shastri's birthplace in Ramnagar in Mughalsarai district of Uttar Pradesh remains the humble town it was.
"Nothing has changed in the village
