In the voice of a song, 22-year-old Leela Sahu smiles on camera and answers the offscreen question of a relative- “Leela, what is its name Rakhe?“(Leela, what name you have given her?). Without any hesitation, she replies:” Aradya “. In the reel she uploaded on Instagram, she adds fickleness:” There is Pihu, angel, beauty in the house “.
The child is not in her arms, but her sister-in-law’s newborn daughter is the first girl born in the family in 11 years. But in the birth of Aradhya, Bagheli YouTuber of Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh, Leela, has an emotional result of a one-year public campaign, who attracted national attention to the broken, uninteresting roads, which made the emergency healthcare in the girl almost inaccessible to pregnant women.
“She was born healthy. The ambulance came about an hour after us, and it took another hour to reach the hospital,” Leela said The Indian Express“My fixed date is 2 August. My only hope is that the ambulance will come on time.”
Leela said it was the first child in the family in the last 11 years. “That’s why I gave him many names, Aradya, Pari, Sundaria,” he said.
As her own delivery date approach, Leela says she will not give up. There are six pregnant women who are expecting to distribute in the coming months, and a road is important for access to healthcare.
“My work was not done just because construction started. I will keep raising my voice until the entire road is built. Because it is not just about an ambulance, or a child. It is also about another woman.”
Road, or at least some parts of it have finally started taking shape.
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At the end of July, after months of public pressure and viral video, construction work began in Khaddi Kurd under the initiative of local Congress MLA Ajay Singh Rahul, who stepped up after the comments of BJP MP Rajesh Mishra. The Congress leader said that he was shifted to work after seeing this, how the local MP dismissed Leela’s concerns that she would take personally pregnant women to the hospital on their fixed dates.
This moment’s path began in July 2023, when Leela, then in his first quarter, a video tagging was posted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“You met all 29 MPs from Madhya Pradesh, Modi ji. Can’t you give us a road at least a road?” He had said, speaking in Bagheli Boli from his mud-brick house in Khaddi Kurd. His message resonated in platforms, attracts attention to the infrastructure collapsing of the region, where pregnant women were taken regularly by tractors and stretchers due to inaccessible roads.
In March 2025, officials of the Madhya Pradesh Rural Road Development Authority confirmed that a five -kilometer road was surveyed under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana and they were surveyed for state approval.
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