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26 | Ram an at hapuram
it is a double whammy
ARITRY, MANASA R, Pechi (60) said paddy farmers said Radhika. A graduate who unemployment compensation
ANANYA were the worst affected in the used to teach at a nursery under MGNREGA. However, it
water crisis. I get by because I school, she said, I resigned was denied to them by
KALARI/SUMAITHANGI/ rear two goats. But it is really voluntarily to take care of my government officials for having
VENGULAM: Women were hard as we have to pay Rs 10 for family. But now we are in a the same names on their Aadhar
gathering coloured plastic pots a pot of water. Rarely the village financial crisis. cards, they said. The fact that
from inside their homes. Some tank gets any water and when it Unlike Kannadasan, not Aadhar cards have unique
of them stood near the does everyone fights to get to everyone was lucky to find numbers did not help them.
threshold looking out for their the single tap, she said pointing MGNREGA jobs as there is We dont understand these
men folk who had gone to fetch to empty vessels in a long nothing to work on here, said things and hence we cannot
water. An old man passed by, queue. Rathika. Most villagers like protest, she added.
Sanitation: No end to
wheeling a trolley of sorts, that The water crisis meant Pechi, belonging to the Adi If no politician visits, how
held five pots each. More trolley- villagers were reverting to open Dravida community, do not will we share our grievances,
pushing men followed. This was a defecation on fields though they have last names or initials. They asked Lakshmi. Other women Thatched space as makeshift toilet. | PRIYANKA P
sight from Vengulam, a village in have toilets constructed in their were supposed to get joined the chorus.