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Dry tribal villages of Medak cry for water
Tribal villages and Tandas in the district are facing the heat of severe water shortage under the prevailed drought conditions. Borewells in most of the villages in district have already gone dry and villagers are struggling to find water even for their daily needs.
Narayankhed (Medak): Tribal villages and Tandas in the district are facing the heat of severe water shortage under the prevailed drought conditions. Borewells in most of the villages in district have already gone dry and villagers are struggling to find water even for their daily needs.
Kangti Mandal, with large number of tribal hamlets is facing acute shortage of water. Most of the borewells in the hilly region have failed and water tankers have been supplying water to hamlets irregularly and in many cases, just as a formality.
Rajaram Thanda is a tribal hamlet, where 110 families live and the population is around 600. The hamlet needs 36,000 litres of water every day, but currently the supply is only 3000 litres from one tanker trip.
Similar situation is there in Sadhu Thanda, a hamlet which is located close to the mandal head quarters. Around 30 families live in the hamlet. The villagers are going to Sukaltiram Thanda, a nearby hamlet in bullock carts with drums and getting water from there.
Even that is a herculean task as water wars are quite common between people of different hamlets. “They are beating us if we go to fetch water from there. One of our boys had a head injury during a water fight and is admitted to hospital now,” said Guglabai, a worried elderly woman from the hamlet.
Several other villages like Gairan Thanda of Wangdhal Gram Panchayat in Kangti Mandal, are also facing similar situation. After The Hans India intervened, the local MPTC who is also the owner of water tanker agreed to provide an additional tanker in a day or two.
While there is an effort to provide water to gram panchayats where population is more, the remaining villages and hamlets under the panchayats are being neglected.
While some sarpanches say that they have submitted the estimates to MPDOs regarding the water requirement in villages, many haven’t even performed the exercise.
On top of that, it is a known fact that the amount for the number of trips water tanker owners claim from the administration and the actual number of trips they make, are quite different. Is there a fool-proof monitoring system to check the supply of water? That is a million-litre question.
