Sawalkote Gives Ramban a Reason to Believe Again

The hills of Ramban rise and fall like long waves, carrying the Chenab River in their folds. Pogal, Paristan, and Neel sit deep inside these folds.

- Er Navaid Runyal

Life here has moved at its own pace, far from the attention that other parts of Jammu and Kashmir receive.

Roads remained incomplete. Bridges held on through storms, Electricity flickered more than it flowed. Many projects, from rail lines to highway upgrades, passed these valleys without touching them. Families learned to expect very little from the world outside.

A fresh sense of hope arrived recently when the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change cleared the 1856 MW Sawalkote Hydroelectric Project in village Tanger. The site stands miles away, but the impact reached these remote communities at once.

It felt like an acknowledgment that Ramban’s most distant villages matter.