A dimension within Drinking Water Scarcity
This theme covers the broader need for essential infrastructure development, including water supply, roads, healthcare, and electricity in rural areas.
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In rural Mandla, communities grapple with the everyday reality of distant governance and essential services that remain out of reach, despite repeated pleas.

Despite a national vision for development, many villages in Mandla still grapple with fundamental infrastructure deficiencies, from roads and bridges to clean water and reliable electricity.

Residents of Maradipanga voice their daily struggles and collective aspirations for government assistance to cultivate better livelihoods, restore their environment, and build a more developed future.

Amidst the fields of Sonbhadra, villagers reflect on their daily challenges, from dilapidated infrastructure to economic aspirations, seeking collective strength.
There is a water problem in our village. It has not reached every house. And there is also a road problem, due to which people have to face a lot of difficulties.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
There is a water problem in our village.
— Sonmati · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
There is a water problem in our village.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
There is no paved road in our village and no road to reach home, it becomes a big problem during the rainy season, and there is a problem with drinking water, and there is a need for a school and hospital for studies.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
There is an electricity problem in our village. There is a water problem in our village. Ration is not directly available in our village.
— Anand tandiya · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
In our village, there is a problem with roads, electricity, and rations.
— Anand tandiya · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
In our village, there is a problem with the tap water scheme. So far, no tap water scheme has reached every household. The problem is for the tap water scheme to reach.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
We are not getting proper drinking water in our village.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
There is no electricity in our village, there should be electricity. There should be network. And there is water but the water is not coming for the crops.
— Kamleah Kumar · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
There is a big problem with water and there is no mobile network. We want development in our village so that India can become a developed nation by 2047.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In our village, there are no hand pump toilets, housing, and transportation facilities, which causes problems. We hope all these become available.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
There is a major mobile network problem in our village area, and arrangements for water and hospital should be made so that
— bachcha lal · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In our village, regarding the four main infrastructures, there are some issues with water, roads, and the drainage system.
— gobardhan pangi
There is no water facility in the village, there is no toilet facility, housing is not being provided, and the ration dealer is not distributing rations properly, so that we can properly receive every facility.
— Sonmati · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
There is a water problem in my village, due to which there is a big problem with drinking water in the village.
— Anand tandiya · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
There is a well problem in the village. As soon as the handpump breaks down, we don't get water, so there is a problem. A well should be built in our village.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
There is a big water problem in our village at this time, if the tap water scheme and housing, toilets, and hospitals are built, our village will develop.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
There is a problem with water supply in our village. It would be good if water facilities were provided.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
Sir, in our village, there is a big water problem. We also need a proper system for irrigation, and some land should be made available so that we can farm, and proper roads should be provided.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
The tap water scheme work in the village is incomplete, which is a problem. Complete this factor.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
There is a problem with the tap water scheme in our village. So far, no tap water scheme has reached the people.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
In our village, education in school is not good. Yes, education is not good, and the roads are bad. Even drinking water is not available, they say.
— Parikshit Majhi
Due to the road problem in our village, the things that should be available are not being received under the government's scheme.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We don't have CC roads here, and there's a problem with tap water connections.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj
There is a water problem in the village. People have to go far for water. So the problem is water, and there are very few hand pumps in this village.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
There is a water problem in the village. Neither a hand pump nor a well. The problem is water.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
The work under the government's tap water scheme in the village is incomplete and no attention is being paid to it, so the problem is to deliver the tap water scheme to every household.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
We need a well in our village. There is a problem with drinking water.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
In the village, we need a well for drinking water. So, the problem is water.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
There is no network in our village, and there should be a tower. And there are no taps/pipelines, there should be taps/pipelines. There is water, but it is just sitting there for the crops.
— Kamleah Kumar · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
The tap water scheme has not reached every household in the village, which is a very big problem for them, and no one is paying attention.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
Grama Sasimaha, Gram Panchayat Jhiradikia, Block Kannaga, District Kandhamal. We want to see a developed India by 2047. In our village, there are many problems with roads and transportation. The water supply is not functioning properly. Also, the condition of the school's boundary, playground, and houses is not good. Therefore, we request the government to take immediate action on our problems so that we, the villagers, will be benefited.
— Rajib Pradhan · Kandhamal, Odisha
There is a big water problem in the village. We applied several times for a well, but there has been no solution yet.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
There is a problem with the hand pump in our village, we have to go far to drink water.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
There is a water problem in the village, and there are no handpumps.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
There are various types of problems in our village, and there is a need to work on those things as well.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
There is a borewell problem in the village, that is why there is a problem.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey
Our village needs drinking water, roads, a school, and a hospital.
— Batakrushna Sahoo
There is a big problem with electricity and water in our village. If we had continuous and timely electricity and water, all of us could do our farming and business well.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Before, our village lacked facilities for schools, water, and electricity. There were difficulties with transportation and housing.
— Padmini Bhoi
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