A man from Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district attached several written applications to a string tied to his body and crawled to the divisional commissioner’s office to highlight water “shortage” in his village.<\/p>\n
Bishankhedi resident Bajrangi told reporters on Wednesday that he resorted to the unusual method as accessing water is a huge challenge in his village, a claim contested by the authorities.<\/p>\n
“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 said.<\/p>\n
Bajrangi also accused his village sarpanch of stalling efforts to resolve the problem and indulging in corruption.<\/p>\n
He claimed that water scarcity is so acute that people, especially women, are forced to carry water in just a ‘lota’<\/em> (brass vessel) to answer nature’s call.<\/p>\n However, officials in the district disagreed with Bajrangi’s claims.<\/p>\n Public Health Engineering department’s executive engineer Pradeep Saxena told reporters on Thursday that officials visited Bishankhedi on Wednesday and found that there was a water shortage near the community centre.<\/p>\n An alternative arrangement was made there by digging a borewell, he said. Water is being stored in a tank by installing a pump in this borewell, the official said.<\/p>\n The village has a population of 2,100, and it has 20 hand pumps, of which 12 are functional, the official said.<\/p>\n According to Saxena, most houses in the village have their own water source from which even other villagers get water.<\/p>\n This is not the first time MP has witnessed an unusual protest by citizens to highlight their plight.<\/p>\n Last July, an elderly farmer rolled on the floor of the collectorate in Mandsaur district, claiming that no action had been taken on his complaint of alleged land grabbing.<\/p>\n In December 2024, a farmer, his wife and three children walked on their knees at the sub-divisional magistrate’s office complex in Khategaon town in Dewas district to raise a problem arising from a land dispute.<\/p>\n The farmer, Lakshaman, claimed that his representations to the authorities had yielded no results. However, the then SDM said the farmer had lost his land dispute case against a neighbour in a court and it was not possible for them to intervene in the matter directly.<\/p>\n The tehsildar and patwari were, however, instructed to find a way out on humanitarian grounds.<\/p>\n (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n \u200bA man from Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district attached several written applications to a string tied to his body and crawled to the divisional commissioner’s office to highlight water “shortage” in his village\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man from Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district attached several written applications to a string tied to his body<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":118463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/drought-situation_650x400_51462907591-EfiseI.jpeg",650,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/drought-situation_650x400_51462907591-EfiseI-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/drought-situation_650x400_51462907591-EfiseI-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/drought-situation_650x400_51462907591-EfiseI.jpeg",640,394,false],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/drought-situation_650x400_51462907591-EfiseI.jpeg",640,394,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/drought-situation_650x400_51462907591-EfiseI.jpeg",650,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/drought-situation_650x400_51462907591-EfiseI.jpeg",650,400,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/drought-situation_650x400_51462907591-EfiseI.jpeg",650,400,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/drought-situation_650x400_51462907591-EfiseI-590x400.jpeg",590,400,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}