Women Stage Rasta Roko, Protest Unavailability Of Drinking Water In Nabarangpur
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Unavailability of drinking water and lack of roads have forced villagers to lead miserable lives in interior parts of all the districts in Odisha.
Nabarangpur, May 11: Unavailability of drinking water and lack of roads have forced villagers to lead miserable lives in interior parts of all the districts in Odisha.
Such an instance came to the fore in Nabarangpur district today with a large number of women sitting on the road with empty buckets, pots, and pitchers to register their protest against the State government's failure to provide them with drinking water and other basic facilities, including a pucca road.
Women of Hirali village on the outskirts of Nabarangpur town staged a 'Rasta Roko', which resulted in disruption in vehicular movement on the Hirili bypass road.
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✨"We have been urging authorities for long. Our urges have fallen on deaf ears. So we have been forced to stage Rasta Roko," said protesting women.
However, the women withdrew their strike on the assurance of government officials.
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