Bhaskar Ground Report: Here's how women and children were punished with black water for 4 months of monsoon

On the one hand, the government is planning thousands of crores of rupees to run bullet trains, on the other hand, even after so many years of independence, the people of the last area have not got basic facilities. Bhaskar's team made a ground report of one such village in which shocking and shocking facts have come out. We had reached Nani Palsangame village, 40 kilometres from Nanapondha, the headquarters of Kaprada taluka, which has a predominantly tribal population in Valsad district. However, as the road was bad, Nani walked two km away from Palsan and reached the banks of the Damanganga river. On the opposite bank of the Damanganga river lies a fruit called Galuvapada in Nani Palsangam. In which more than 20 families have houses. For the residents of Phulia, which has a population of more than 100, the four-month monsoon is coming as a disaster. The water of the Damanganga river from all sides has to struggle to sustain life for four months. In front of the people living on the northern side of the river, there is land across, in which there is no facility of any kind in The Galuvapada Phulia to go for farming, so one has to cross the river to buy things from ration to health or any other life necessities. The river also has to live by crossing the river, not in the bridge or boat, but by swimming through the tube of the truck. However, the most difficult situation is faced by women, who are unable to swim through the tube of the truck and cross the river, for them, the four months of the monsoon become a punishment for black water. Men swim in the river with the help of tubes and bring all the necessities of life. Because of the river, it is as important for the people of the village to have a tube in the house as much as bread. Whether it is crossing the river to work in the fields or fetching crops, the tube is the only support for the villagers. 1. The causeway is also unusable, has to go for farming... The causeway is useful only for irrigation in summer, as it is against agriculture, it has to swim from the tube and bring fodder for farming and cattle across the border. Shakaram Pardhi, a local farmer 2. This demand, which has been going on for years, is still unfulfilled... The demand for a public utility bridge over the river has been raised since Independence. But this demand that has been going on for years has remained unfulfilled so far. It is challenging for the villagers. - Kishanbhai Gamit, local 3. The generation of 20 years ago remained non-literate... Now I am 21 years old, I have never been to school, not even those of my same age have received an education. The generation of 20 years ago did not get education at all. - Sombhai Bhasra, a local resident, struggled to save his life for 4 months