The old man sat pensively indifferent throughout our "inspection visit" at his village. A few minutes of casual street-talk with him revealed that what we were shown was just the terminal head of the village (declared to be connected to the national highway), the bulk of the village remained inaccessible on foot due to the terrible sewage conditions that has left all its streets in a mess of human excreta. This is the "effectiveness" of visits by senior officials! — in Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh.
