Villagers from Adilabad flay leaders for shortage of drinking water

ADILABAD: Elected public representatives, including MLAs and ZP chairpersons, are facing the heat stemming from an acute shortage of drinking water and their inability to make alternative arrangements to quench the thirst of villagers, who are braving the soaring temperature.

Ironically, many leaders are not visiting villages that are facing drinking water problems for fear of a backlash.

Several villagers in the erstwhile Adilabad district are complaining that they were collecting drinking water from agriculture pump sets by walking long distances.

People from the remote Thadiguda brought to the notice of Kova Laxmi, ZP chairperson, who recently visited their village, about not getting drinking water even under Mission Bhagiratha. She assured to take up the issue with officials from the rural water supply wing and Mission Bhagiratha.

Men, women and youth from Saleguda village are bearing the brunt for the last two months. They are taking plastic drums and cans in bullock carts to the motor pump dug up under a bridge.

Local resident Kova Venugopal slammed their MLA Azmeera Rekha Naik for not visiting the village despite knowing the problems they are facing.

He said that surrounding villages like Roopsingh thanda, Mohan Singh thanda, Dobhiguda, and Thejapur were getting water, though erratic, from Mission Bhagiratha.