Drought Relief Work in Karnataka, Maharashtra & Telangana : May 2016

Updated : 28 May 2016

Lack of sufficient rainfall and searing heatwave has caused an acute drought situation in a major portion of the country. Lakhs of families are suffering from lack of minimum potable water. Agriculture and livestock has also been severely affected. This grave drought situation at the very onset of summer is a serious concern.

Seeing the misery, Ramakrishna Mission has initiated drought relief work in some of the affected areas. Thousands of liters of drinking water is being distributed among the drought victims through our Pune and Aurangabad centres in Satara and Aurangabad districts respectively of Maharashtra, through our Belagavi and Ponnampet centres in Belagavi and Kodagu districts respectively of Karnataka and through our Hyderabad centre in Warangal, Ranga Reddy and Karimnagar districts of Telangana. A brief report of the relief work conducted so far is given below:

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Moreover, Hyderabad centre has excavated a temporary well on the riverbed in Adalpur village in Ranga Reddy district. Water is being pumped from this well to the village situated 1.5 km away. The centre has also distributed 40,100 litres of buttermilk at Nizamabad and Karimnagar areas among 1,60,018 people from 1 April to 26 May.

Our Visakhapatnam centre undertook a water supply project under which it has laid 10,000 metres of HDP pipeline and supplied water tanks to facilitate the supply of drinking water to 265 households belonging to 10 villages in Visakhapatnam and Vijayanagaram districts of Andhra Pradesh.

The relief work is going on and is expected to continue for some time.

 

 

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Updated : 13 May 2016

Lack of sufficient rainfall and searing heatwave has caused an acute drought situation in a major portion of the country. Lakhs of families are suffering from lack of minimum potable water. Agriculture and livestock has also been severely affected. This grave drought situation at the very onset of summer is a serious concern.

Seeing the misery, Ramakrishna Mission has initiated drought relief work in some of the affected areas. Thousands of liters of drinking water is being distributed among the drought victims through our Pune and Aurangabad centres in Satara and Aurangabad districts of Maharashtra respectively, through our Belgavi centre in Belgavi district of Karnataka and through our Hyderabad centre in Warangal, Ranga Reddy and Karimnagar districts of Telangana. A brief report of the relief work conducted so far is given below:

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Moreover, Hyderabad centre has excavated a temporary well on the riverbed in Adalpur village in Ranga Reddy district. Water is being pumped from this well to the village situated 1.5 km away. The centre has also distributed 1800 litres of buttermilk at Nizamabad and Karimnagar areas among 10,800 people from 30 April to 4 May.

 

 

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Report as on 02 May 2016 :

Lack of sufficient rainfall and searing heatwave has caused an acute drought situation in a major portion of the country. Lakhs of families are suffering from lack of minimum potable water. Agriculture and livestock has also been severely affected. This grave drought situation at the very onset of summer is a serious concern for us all.

Seeing the miserable plight of these poor and needy people, Ramakrishna Mission has initiated drought relief work in some of the affected areas. Thousands of liters of drinking water is being distributed among the drought victims through our Pune and Aurangabad centres in Satara and Aurangabad districts of Maharashtra respectively, through our Belgavi centre in Belgavi district of Karnataka and through our Hyderabad centre in Warangal, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Ranga Reddy and Karimnagar districts of Telangana. A brief report of the relief work conducted so far is given below:

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