For the last three months, Kharghahna village of Bajag block of Dindori district has been waiting for water supply. Rainwater might help to ease the water crisis but villagers worry about water-borne diseases.
Neither any action has been taken on the integrated drainage management system since the year 1995. Nor, any major modelling/remodelling/extension of drains has been done post-1995, even as the population of the Capital trebled during this period.
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The water-scarce village has only one functional hand pump and the other is dried up. Women of the village walk for around 1 kilometre early in the morning to fetch water.
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