Raipur, May 22: Poor in India lead miserable lives.
It is the poor and underprivileged who have to bear the brunt of any catastrophe first.
The poor are the shields for the rich to tide over any tragedy.
Again the poor and marginalised are suffering the most due to water paucity across the country.
Women and girls walking several kilometers to bring home water in pots and buckets is a common site in many cities, towns and villages of India.
Since water is scarce, villagers are drinking water from a drain.
A village in Dantewada is reeling under water scarcity.
Locals are compelled to dig water from an area near a drain, reported ANI.
"We will look into the matter, if there is a shortage of hand pumps then we will install them," Saurabh Kumar, collector, told ANI.
If these images also don’t move our politicians and authorities, we don’t know what would.