KAMALPUR, May 4 (TIWN): The so-called trumpeting and much-hyped demands of development always remained under the scanner for its availability to the remote areas. Further, the undeniable cadre-raj and the embezzling tendency of bureaucracy got ever active to ransack the development in reality which had a flourishing presence in the documents. However, the demands of the government and the ruling party sometimes seemed hard to believe when a tribal hamlet with 140 families remained devoid of safe drinking water still now.

Almost 28 to 30 km away from the sub-divisional town of Kamalpur by the Halhali-Fatikroy NEC road remained the tribal hamlet of Sanaiya Reang Para. In that hilly and uneven terrain, 140 families used to reside.

The village got connected with black-top road constructed after the Bharat Nirman project. But the inhabitants deadly suffer for a drop of safe and pure drinking water.

The village had no source of safe and pure drinking water. During the dry season, the DWS Kamalpur division used to provide them with drinking water through tanker. But for the rest of the year, they had to fetch water from a narrow stream of water flowing through the hills and ending on the NEC road.

The villagers had to walk almost 12 to 15 km to fetch every pot full of water. One Kulenjoy Reang, a student of class IX told TIWN that, it had become their practice and fate to get drinking water after much ado. And they used to drink that water without filtration.

Now, when the DWS department failed to provide them safe and pure drinking water, then could they not provide at least some medication and awareness to made them to drink filtered or chlorinated water, remained the question of the hour.