Hemalkasa and surrounding villages are known for thick forests and natural beauty. However, surrounding also suffers from some nature problems. One of them is water conservation. The soil of Hemalkasa and surrounding villages does hold water. Despite of heavy rain every year, villagers have to struggle for potable water and irrigation water. All of the villages are dependent on natural sources of water such as river or canal. So, once the rainy season is over, each one of us (humans and animals) have to struggle for water.
Mr. Aniket Amte, a Director of Lok Biradari Prakalp, came up with an unique idea and asked villagers, "Can we check for other water resources such as huge lake? If we excavate a huge lake according the population of village, each one of us will have enough water for irrigation and drinking. It will also help
to increase underground water level. Each one of us can take multiple crops instead of only one per year."
But he also introduced some unique thoughts as follows.
1. Villagers have to contribute 10% of total value of excavation work, so that each one will own the lake and everyone will take care of it.
2. None of them should drink alcohol in village.
3. None of them should eat tobacco.
4. Save trees and plant trees.
The president of Gramsabha has to conduct a meeting and he should get 70% agreement from villagers to follow the rules. Once it's done, we can go ahead and start the excavation work. And the day was 6th January 2017, when we started excavation work at the "Bejur" village which is about 3kms towards Allapalli from Lok Biradari Prakalp, Hemalkasa. The size of the lake is 100 x 50 meters with 3 meters depth. The excavation work completed in 15-20 days. The total cost for excavation work was around 10 lakh rupees. And so on ...... we have completed the excavation work at several villages.
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