Achi news desk-
Villagers shouting slogans in Ratera village.
There is severe shortage of water in the water bodies of Ratera village, which falls under Bhiwani Bawani Kheda town, Haryana. On the other hand, farmers are facing a shortage of water in their fields. Because of this, villagers and farmers showed anger on Saturday and raised slogans against the administration.
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Villagers and farmers of Ratera village, Chetan Prakash, Vijay Raghav, Surendra, Raman, Lakhvindra, Balraj etc. said that there is a lot of water scarcity in their fields. The water came on Saturday and on Wednesday the canal was halved and now it is closed. But after this the farmers did not get even a single turn of water and they were deprived of irrigation. Their crops are drying up due to lack of water, but no attention is given to solving their problems.
Farmers said that their canals run full during the rainy season, but at the moment their fields are in dire need of water and they irrigate their crops by buying water. By taking borrowed money, they use diesel to supply water from tube wells, while many farmers are deprived of even this. Because of this, farmers’ crops have started to wither.
On the other hand, due to the lack of water from the village’s own water bodies, there is a problem of water reaching people’s homes. Because of this the villagers and the farmers were hurt by this and showed their anger and raised slogans and asked for a solution to the problem. If no solution was found, he asked for a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, the Minister of Public Health and the Prime Minister to resolve the problem.
