mirzapur12 minutes agoWriters: Nitin Kumar Awasthi
Lahuriyadah village of Mirzapur, situated on the border of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, has inherited water scarcity. Imagine, the way you get ration from the card. Similarly, water is obtained by showing the card here. That too 15 liters on 3 days.
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If you need more than this, you will have to go to a waterfall. From there the water will have to be filled and loaded on the head and brought to the house. Seeing such scarcity of water, people do not marry their daughters to the boys of this village. That’s why bachelor boys are seen in most of the houses.
As the men of the village go to work, most of the women fill water from the tanker.
Lahuriyadah village of Halia development block, located about 70 km from the district headquarters, is included in the backward area. The story here is passed down from generation to generation. The population of this village is about 2000. The people of the village get ration from the card itself and water is supplied through the card itself. The only difference is that we get 3 kg of ration every month and 5 liters of water every day.
The tanker arrives on the third day
In view of the shortage of water in the village, water is being supplied through tankers. This also comes only once in 3 days. According to a person, only 15 liters of water is given from the tanker. For this people have to wait for the tanker.
When men wait for water, work is lost. When they go to work, it becomes difficult to juggle water. Therefore, most of the women take care of the water system. Sometimes fights also take place here.
There is a waterfall 4 some away from the village. The villagers also bring water from there by filling them in boxes.
waterfall support
The people of this village are forced to fill water from the mountain spring, about 4 km away from the house. In the rain, water is available just fine. In other months the water is reduced. After that slowly the water from the mountain comes into the pool, then they fill the water in their box with a lot.
The problem has not been solved since independence
The shortage of water in the village, which persists throughout the year, has also become a hindrance in the way of settling down of people. No one wants to marry his daughter in this village. Since independence, till date no government has been able to end the problem of water. The leaders who arrived during the elections make promises but to no avail.
Administration claims – 7 to 8 tankers of water are supplied every third day in Lahuriyadah village.
generation-long shortage
Arjun, Deendayal, Keshav, Mohan Lal, Hira Lal, Shivratan, Jhallar, Ram Sihodar and Ramjas told that this problem is going on since the time of ancestors. People were earlier dependent on the waterfall. Gradually the water level in the spring is also slowing down due to the lowering of the water level. So the problem is increasing. Chief Development Officer Srilakshmi VS. According to reports, 7 to 8 tankers of water are being supplied to Lahuriyadah village situated in the hilly area.