Dr. Rajendra Prasad's Home Crumbles: First President's Village Neglected

• Dr. Rajendra Prasad's ancestral home in Ziradei, Siwan, under Archaeological Survey of India, is in severe disrepair.
• Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's 2010 promise to develop it as a tourist spot remains unfulfilled after 15 years.
• The historic site, visited by Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and others, lacks basic maintenance, security, and traditional worship has stopped.
• Ziradei, despite being a designated tourist destination, lacks basic facilities like toilets, exposing systemic failure.
• The village suffers from a severe lack of higher education, with no government degree college, forcing girls to drop out after Plus Two.

Why It Matters: India's first President's birthplace, Ziradei, faces severe neglect, lacking preservation and basic development.