Madhya Pradesh / Here daughters risk their lives daily for every drop of water

Slogans like Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Beti Hai To Kal Hai look great in poster banners and advertisements, but the picture is a bit different in Betul, Madhya Pradesh. In rural areas here, daughters are putting their lives at risk every day for every drop of water and even then these daughters get to drink so much dirty dirty water that hardly anyone would like to drink. On this plight of the daughters, from the gram panchayat to the public representatives and the district administration are also sitting silently. Read this full report

Villagers have appealed all over the place, but every year in summer the same situation is created. In the summer season, a head pump installed in Borkhedi has started dying. Water does not come from this head pump even after running for hours. Due to which the villagers have to immediately go back to fill water in a well built about a kilometer away from the village.

The population of this village is about 600, 80 km away from Betul. Due to the low level of water in the well, the ropes are unable to fill the water with the help of bucket. Putting their feet on crooked and smooth stones, putting their lives at risk, five girls descend into the well. Out of these, one girl gets down at the bottom, then one stands in the middle, while the other 3 girls stand up after coming down from the well, which fills the water and reaches to the top.

Radha, the girl who descended into the well, says that she is studying class 10th and has been drinking dirty water for the last 3 months. It takes fear to get down in the well, but you have to get down under compulsion. On the other hand, Rukma Bai, a rural woman, says that people from all over the village come to draw water, have to drink dirty water from the well, no one helps. The girls have to take off to fetch water. Young villager Shanman Kasdekar says that there is a big problem of water and has told everyone about it but no one comes forward to help. It is a compulsion that we have to drink water from the well.

Bhainsdehi SDM Kailash Chand Parte says that I have got information in this regard, I have given instructions to CEO, Janpad Panchayat and PHE people to solve the water problem of this village.