Agra: Who does now not like amenities, however it will now not be incorrect to mention that these days’s individual desires a greater day after today than these days for his amenities. However simply consider your day whilst you aroused from sleep within the morning and after a while you got here to grasp that there’s no water in the home… Indisputably that somebody or circle of relatives from this example no less than within the morning- Within the morning, I’d now not love to have a few hours in any respect. However simply consider what occurs when water turns into a day by day downside for you.
In any such scenario, amidst giant guarantees of building, know the situation of Bahravati village of Agra, the place there is just one handpump for consuming water to the inhabitants of 2500 to 3000 of the village.
Manju Devi of Bahravati village of Agra abruptly stood subsequent to one another whilst filling water at a handpump situated 2 km clear of the village. When requested the cause of this, Manju says in her personal taste, ‘Ka kare… Surprised.. Hath mein ache ho gaye’. All the way through this, any other lady took where of Manju at the faucet. A lot of these girls have come clear of their houses to fill water with giant utensils at the handiest faucet of the village.
It’s going to be referred to as the misfortune of the rustic, the place even after 75 years of independence, the folk of a village are depending on a faucet situated a ways away for the provision of water. You’ll be stunned to grasp that the ‘Taj Nagri Agra’, which the federal government of the rustic talks about making it a wise town. Blank consuming water has been a subject matter for generations in Bahravati village, located simply 20 to 22 km clear of that Agra town.
There is just one hand pump within the identify of building in Bahravati village which comes underneath Fatehpur Sikri meeting constituency of Agra, which is set 2 km from the village. The inhabitants of the village is round 2500 to 3000. When the staff of NBT On-line reached this village, it used to be night time. The ladies of the village, forming a gaggle of 2 or 3, had been sporting giant utensils and going out to get water. Seeing the media automobile, the boys, outdated, younger and youngsters of the village surrounded our automobile from each side. All the way through this we talked to many of us of Bahravati village. It used to be realized within the dialog that the amenities within the village are very a ways away, there’s no crematorium right here if anyone dies.
Meena Devi (66) of the village itself says that she additionally is going to get water from the similar hand pump. Meena Devi says the entire other people of the village pass there. On the similar time, at the query of hassle in summer season, Meena Devi says, ‘Now when there’s a pinon, then we need to convey it.
After this, the folk of the village requested us to stroll and notice the trail from the place the ladies of the village pass to get water by means of protecting a bucket of about 20 liters on their head and sporting a metal urn of their hand. After strolling on that street for a while, we discovered the faucet to be a ways away, so we took the assistance of our automobile. For the following few mins we had been status on the handiest handpump within the village. We noticed that being the one one, there used to be a meeting of the ladies of the village to fill the water. Ladies had been noticed looking ahead to their flip in entrance folks. But if we talked to a kind of girls, she advised that during summer season there may be numerous quarrel over this faucet. Water intake will increase because of warmth. Other people afflicted by means of the shortage of water make rounds of this faucet a number of instances an afternoon. In any such scenario, the anger of other people surprised by means of the solar continuously erupts on every different.
A lady who got here to fill water on the handpump advised that this faucet reads 1 to at least one and a part kilometer and even clear of her area. The lady advised that even nowadays she involves this handpump to get water two to 3 instances an afternoon or every now and then greater than that. Those girls, who got here to fetch water, workout their franchise within the elections. However we present in dialog that some girls do not know about their applicants and their image. On the similar time, some girls additionally confirmed their inclination against BJP by means of announcing ‘lotus flower’. Alternatively, our question- girls didn’t give enough solutions even whilst you mentioned hanging the issue of the village in entrance of your public representatives.
What did the village head say?
After we talked to the village head on most of these issues, he shrugged off announcing that he used to be the most recent. On the similar time, he mentioned that those problems are very outdated. The top of the village mentioned that at the present it is just that individuals take consuming water from this faucet. He mentioned within the route of decreasing the issues by means of mentioning the longer term that there’s a giant tank put in within the properties of the individuals who have come from above. Naal lagenge… The headman mentioned that I will be able to soak up this downside additional and am additionally elevating it. He mentioned that leaders come and say, however there’s no listening to…
Cremation floor could also be crucial factor within the village
The elders of the village advised the cremation floor at the side of water because the burning factor of the village. Speaking in this, an individual from the village mentioned that there’s no position for cremation floor any place within the village. At the moment there’s a cremation floor in an excessively small a part of the village land. However there’s no tin shed, because of which the folk of the village have higher problem in acting the final rites of a lifeless individual all the way through the wet season. On the similar time, someone else from the village mentioned that at the present, some other people have occupied the land the place the cremation floor is situated within the village, which is a huge downside.
Now the solar used to be about to set, the air of the village used to be getting chillier and chillier each second. So we made a plan to go away ahead of darkish. We had been returning once we noticed many of us baking a bonfire at a small sq. on learn how to the village. On asking the caste equation, we had been advised that within the village there are other people of Jatav neighborhood within the first position and Gaur neighborhood on the second one.
