In April 2025, when the bodies from the Pahalgam terror attack returned home, governments across India promised swift help to grieving families. But months later, some of those promises remain stuck in files.

In Odisha’s Balasore district, Priyadarshini Acharya – whose husband Prashant Kumar Satpathy was among the 26 killed in the attack – is still waiting for the government job the state promised her.

Satpathy worked as an accounts assistant at the Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) in Balasore. He had travelled to Pahalgam on vacation with his wife and child. After he was killed, Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Manjhi visited the family’s village, Isani,........

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