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Authorities fail, farmers dig irrigation channel [1]

BOUDH: Self help is the best help, so goes the adage. The authorities failed them, their resolve did not. Over 350 farmers of three villages along with their cattle are toiling day in, day out for the last 10 days dredging the dry river bed to tap underground water for irrigating their fields.

Publication Date: 
25/01/2011
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar) [2]
Tags:
Mahanadi [3], Irrigation [4], Orissa (Odisha) [5], Bhubaneswar [6], Farmers [7], Boudh (D) [8], Groundwater [9]
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