Residents of the remote and backward gram panchayat, Hadal, in this subdivision had dreamt of getting a facelift under the "model village scheme' on December 10, 2001, when former Union Minister of Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs. Shanta Kumar had laid the foundation stone of the model village scheme. The Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) had sponsored the scheme. Although the project was announced to be completed within six months, it is still hanging in the balance. Inquiries made from the office of the Block Development Officer (BDO), Nurpur, which has been executing the much-publicised model village scheme, reveal that Rs 70 lakh had to be spent on the overall development of the panchayat. HUDCO and the state government had to share Rs 35 lakh each on the facelift project of the panchayat. The project had to provide the basic infrastructure like water, electricity, civil and veterinary dispensaries, pucca village paths and houses to poor families and community centres in the panchayat.