BEHRAMPORE, 16 JUNE: The adage that necessity is the mother of invention is apt for Kajisha, a gram panchayat at Beldanga in Murshidabad.
The gram panchayat, with a cluster of villagers, has turned out to be a rare bit of rural Bengal by setting a precedence: to rope in a band of rickshaw-van pullers for supplying pure drinking water on demand to households determined to drink arsenic-free wate
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/rickshaw-pullers-turn-pure-drinking-water-suppliers
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/statesman-kolkata
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/murshidabad
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rickshaws
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drinking-water
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-supply
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/arsenic-poisoning
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-pollution
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-water-supply