About 7,000 returning migrant workers and other unemployed people have been hired to do the work, with 50,000 pits dug since April on more than 40 hills around Sagar district, authorities said. Ichchhit Garhpale, the head of Sagar district's panchayat, or local council, said the effort aims to improve groundwater levels in the district. He said the pit system could help capture as much as 60 million litres of additional water in the course of a year. "If we are able to solve the water problem, there is nothing better than that," he said. Sagar district sits in India's Bundelkhand region, which is famous for its problems with drought.

Source: bd News24 September 04, 2020 05:03 UTC