Drilling holes in the Thirst Economy

“Only two of them work,” says Badri Kharat of his borewells in Roshangaon. That’s hard — when you’ve sunk 36 of them spending millions of rupees, as he has. Kharat, a big landowner and local political personage, has been generous to his neighbours in this village of Jalna district. He pipes in drinking water from a well he’s sunk quite a distance away. Twice a day, for two hours, the people of Roshangaon can draw water free from this source.

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