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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Marathwada: Zero rabi crop, bone dry wells, serial hunger strikes in despair -Kavitha Iyer

Marathwada: Zero rabi crop, bone dry wells, serial hunger strikes in despair -Kavitha Iyer

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published Published on Jun 21, 2019   modified Modified on Jun 21, 2019
-The Indian Express

More than half the villages where the state Groundwater Survey and Development Agency’s summer survey found a depletion of over 3 metres from the five-year average are in Marathwada — 1,467 villages.

Beed (Maharastra), Mumbai:
Twice over the last six months, residents of Chaklamba village in Beed district’s Georai taluka have gone on a relay hunger strike in 43-degree temperatures, spending scorching afternoons in the shade of a flimsy cloth tent on the outskirts of the village, a banner behind them stating their demands. During February’s 12-day hunger strike, the mood was still hopeful. Then April rolled around and the step-well located on Satish Patil’s land, a century-old structure that had never failed the village, ran dry.
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When villagers decided to undertake a second hunger strike by the end of May, it was once again to press for a sub-canal from the Jayakwadi dam to serve their farmland. But this time, the protestors were despairing at local officials’ disinterest. “Every well has run dry here, there is not a single source of water for the crop. If we don’t get substantial rain, we cannot sow our kharif crop this year,” said Machhindra Gawde, 70, almost in tears.

Gawde led both hunger strikes this year, a previous one in 2017 and multiple other delegations to officials handling irrigation projects, each time seeking irrigation facilities for thousands of dryland farmers in the region. Since 2016, Chaklamba’s residents have petitioned the Water Resources Department of the Maharashtra government multiple times.

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The Indian Express, 20 June, 2019, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/not-a-drop-maharshtra-zero-rabi-crop-bone-dry-wells-serial-hunger-strikes-in-despair-5789437/?fbclid=IwAR1VivkHhVHi6zqUvKr5S-


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