Women carry water stuffed with water.
Water is life… This slogan tells how essential water is to reside life. To get this ‘life’, a village in Rajasthan is craving. The individuals of the village on the hill have to return 2 kilometers under on foot to quench their thirst. The age of the ladies of the village is passing on to rearrange water. Now Alam is that it’s changing into tough to get the bride for the youth of the village. No one desires to marry his daughter on this village.
This unlucky village is legendary in Banswara, referred to as Cherrapunji and So island’s metropolis. The title of the village is the coil and the misfortune is that regardless of the unfathomable water of the Mahi river, there’s a fierce water scarcity within the small Saravan subdivision, on account of which the lifetime of the villagers has change into hell. In the scorching warmth, a inhabitants of 300 village travels 1-2 kilometers for 2 drops of water.
No bride coming to the village
This lack of water has additionally affected social life within the village, the place individuals shrink back from getting their daughters married in Kundal village. The educated youth of the village say that their marriage is caught until their marriage on account of water scarcity. A graduate younger man mentioned, “When someone brings a relationship, people refuse to marry the daughter after seeing the problem of water.”
300 individuals and a hand pump
This village with 70 homes has just one hand pump, the place one has to attend for hours. This hand pump not solely quenches the thirst of 300 individuals, however a whole lot of cattle additionally rely on it. The reservoirs dry up as quickly because the summer time begins on this village, located on the excessive hill. The wells and rivers have dried up utterly and a lot of the hand pumps are dangerous. Every home faucet scheme has been diminished to paper solely. Villagers mentioned that the PHED division complained a number of instances in regards to the water drawback, however no answer was discovered.
Fill water and put the lock within the drum
Women touring 1-2 kilometers from the hill looking for water have uncovered the leaders and authorities methods. Villagers say that “leaders only come to the elections to take votes, later no one comes to take care of us.” The villagers warned that the Panchayati Raj won’t permit the leaders to enter the village within the election. After the reservoirs have dried up throughout the summer time days, the villagers convey water from far and extensive and preserve it in lock.
Anger in ladies
Women use this water collected within the drum for a number of days for consuming, cooking and bathing. The ladies and youth of the village have demanded the federal government to rearrange quick pure consuming water. It was seen within the village that the anger of girls ready for hours within the warmth for water was clearly seen. The villagers mentioned, “The government should take care of us and a permanent solution to the water problem.”
Report- Subhash Mehta
