By the year 2019, three villages in Varanasi will meet the ‘model’, or ‘adarsh’ village status; Or at least that is what was promised when they were adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In November 2014, a month after the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana was launched, the first village, Jayapur in Varanasi district, was adopted. This was followed by the Nagepur village in the same district in March 2016\. The third village, Kakrahia, was adopted in mid-July 2017.

So how are these villages in the PM’s home constituency faring? The Quint visited Jayapur and Nagepur villages to check if the goals outlined had tick marks against them.