Former minister shares picture of plight of tribals in fetching drinking water in Adilabad

While posting about the women's ordeal, Rao said that people of Telangana were witnessing woes of drinking used to be a common scene during erstwhile Andhra Pradesh in the rule of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.

Adilabad: Tribal women were forced to fetch drinking water from an agriculture borewell at Chintakarra village in Bazarhathnoor mandal on Thursday. Their plight was shared by former finance minister T Harish Rao on his X handle on Friday.

While posting about the women’s ordeal, Rao said that people of Telangana were witnessing woes of drinking used to be a common scene during erstwhile Andhra Pradesh in the rule of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.

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“Failure of the government in management of Mission Bhagiratha has become a bane to the people who are left with no option but to gather water from agriculture bore wells, streams and streams, facing odds,” he remarked.

The former finance minister alleged that the government failed not only in implementation of schemes, but also in administration and providing drinking water through the ambitious Mission Bhagiratha scheme.

He attached a photograph in which tribal women were seen carrying drinking water, drawn from an agriculture well, in pots to their homes, indicating the severity of the drinking water crisis prevailing in the district.