A woman carries water in pots that she has collected from a well in Bastar. File | Photo credit: PTI
For 35 families from Nelangur — a remote hill village deep in the Abujhmad forests of Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district — the summer ordeal of traveling long distances for water may be a thing of the past.
Once a Maoist stronghold, the village on the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border and nearly 52 km from the district headquarters got a water connection last week. This means that families living here will no longer depend on streams and suffer from water shortages this time of year, officials said.
Published – 14 Apr 2026 01:47 IST
