Bhopal, A person from Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district connected a number of written functions to a string tied to his physique and crawled to the divisional commissioner’s workplace to focus on water “shortage” in his village.
MP: String of functions tied to his physique, man crawls to govt workplace to focus on water woes
Bishankhedi resident Bajrangi informed reporters on Wednesday that he resorted to the weird technique as accessing water is a big problem in his village, a declare contested by the authorities.
“I have arrived here for water. I had submitted applications to the collector, minister and the chief minister to highlight the water crisis in the village. When nothing happened, I came here with a trail of complaints,” he mentioned.
Bajrangi additionally accused his village sarpanch of stalling efforts to resolve the issue and indulging in corruption.
He claimed that water shortage is so acute that individuals, particularly girls, are pressured to hold water in only a lota for nature’s name.
Nevertheless, officers within the district disagreed with Bajrangi’s claims.
Public Well being Engineering division’s govt engineer Pradeep Saxena informed reporters on Thursday that officers visited Bishankhedi on Wednesday and located that there was a water scarcity close to the neighborhood centre.
Another association was made there by digging a borewell, he mentioned. Water is being saved in a tank by putting in a pump on this borewell, the official mentioned.
The village has a inhabitants of two,100, and it has 20 hand pumps, of which 12 are useful, the official mentioned.
In response to Saxena, most homes within the village have their very own water supply from which even different villagers get water.
This isn’t the primary time MP witnessed an uncommon protest by residents to focus on their plights.
Final July, an aged farmer rolled on the ground of the collectorate in Mandsaur district, claiming that no motion had been taken on his criticism of alleged land grabbing.
In December 2024, a farmer, his spouse and three youngsters walked on their knees on the sub-divisional Justice of the Peace’s workplace advanced in Khategaon city in Dewas district to boost their downside attributable to a land dispute.
The farmer, Lakshaman, claimed that his representations to the authorities had yielded no outcomes. Nevertheless, the then SDM mentioned the farmer had misplaced his land dispute case towards a neighbour in a court docket and it was not attainable for them to intervene within the matter instantly.
The tehsildar and patwari have been, nevertheless, instructed to discover a method out on humanitarian grounds.