Tag: Water Woes

Majhi, the Forester of Sinapali Forest Range in Nuapada district, is revered as a messiah by the locals because he resolved their water woes that no administrative mechanism could do for them even after repeated requests spanning over decades.

Malkangiri: Though crores of rupees are being sanctioned every year towards improvement in water supply, people in several places in Odisha are still forced to drink contaminated water and allegedly falling prey to kidney ailments and other water-borne diseases. Pedaguda village in Malkangiri district is one such village where potable drinking water still remains a […]

Cuttack/Jharsuguda: Residents of Ward-48 here staged a dharna in front of the office of the Public Health Department (PHD) executive engineer today protesting water crisis. Shouting slogans the protesters demanded immediate supply of drinking water in their locality. In a similar incident, the residents of Ward-2 and 11 of Belpahar block in Jharsuguda district staged […]

In a novel protest that should serve as a warning to other officials, two engineers, including an executive engineer, were dragged out of their office and taken on a walk by women of Ward nos 14,17 and 18 to show the pathetic state of water supply in these areas

Gajapati: With soaring mercury level across the State, acute shortage of drinking water has doubled the misery of Patapadar under Mohana block in the district. Villagers alleged that a solar…

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Reconstruction in the wake of havoc wreaked by cyclone Fani is by far the biggest challenge chief minister, Naveen Patnaik has faced since he took up the reins of the state in 2000. The initial years of Patnaik’s first stint in power were devoted to rebuilding infrastructure damaged by the 1999 […]

Guna: And the ‘Perfect Husband’ award goes to Bharat Singh, a resident of Bhanpur Bawa village under Chanchoda tehsil in Madhya Pradesh, who dug a well in his own house in a fortnight to ease the water woes of his wife. As per reports, Singh was so pained by her wife fetching water daily from […]