Adityapur faces drinking water scarcity much before summer hits NGO demands five water-tankers from JIADA to tide over the crisis
Even though summer is about three months away, the underground water table has considerably depleted at Adityapur township in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district, causing a majority of the bore-wells in the area to get defunct.
As a result of the bore-wells turning useless due to the exhaustion of the underground water, a serious drinking water crisis has emerged in the tiny township which has a population of over three lakhs.
Concerned with the untimely drinking water crisis in Adityapur, a local NGO, Jan Kalyan Morcha (JKM) has urged the regional office, Jharkhand Industrial Area Development Authority (JIADA) Adityapur to provide a minimum of five water tankers under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme in the residential areas of