Sattari: Life has never been this easy at Bonkivhali Ward of Bhironda Panchayat, for the least.
Ten families live here, isolated from the world, with children across the river in raw canoes to get to school to date, when the bandhara built by WRD allows them to walk safely.
The settlement of around 50 people has lived difficulties, not imagining that things can get worse, until the July 23 floods.
The family house with Brother Uttam and Shanu Gawade collapsed when Mhadei violated his level never seen before, and swallowed home.
The soaring water also washed away the concrete steps that lead to the WRD structure which finally connects the ward to humanity, even if it is on foot.
Without a road that connects Bonkivhali to civilization, it is almost impossible to get construction materials for the environment to reconstruct a house for the Gawade family.
“We live with other families for now.
Whatever items we can collect have been stored in their cow shelter.
We survive.
But we can’t celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi in our neighbor’s house now, can we? How long before The government machine realizes that we need help to make construction here maybe without an existing path? “Usha Gawade said.
The family remembered with horror had to eat food that fell from the package because they were dropped from the helicopter on the flood day.
“Even if we already know beforehand that the flood will hit us, we will not be able to buy large amounts of provisions and save them.
There is no job here but to grow horticultural plants.
If there is a road, our lives will be different.
Very funny that everyone can Make it here to campaign for the election, but when we ask for other roads or facilities, they say it’s hard to get here, “said Sangita Gawade.
Janaki Joshi, the landlady in Bonkivhali, has provided a Gawade family again in a higher ground of land to build their new home, but he knows the job cannot start in the near future.
“Somehow, we managed to get the excavator here to clean the new plot.
But without road, the excavator continued to slip and the job could not be done.
When my paralyzed son was sick, he had to be placed in a chair and bring a shoulder to the other side of the river inside The situation is not aware of medical assistance.
How fast can someone build a new house here in such conditions is alleged anyone, “said son-in-law’s son of Janaki Chintamani.
Joshis himself has lost pumphouses and horticultural plants for flooding.
The water level in Mhadei began to rise at 5 am.
At 8 o’clock in the morning, the gawades house, plant and pumphouse Joshis and the stairs to the bridge WRD were swept away.
“What is the use of government compensation without a way to transport material here?” Uttam asked.
He wondered what was in the store for his son’s nest, a class VI student, who besides having to learn without a cellular network and deal with eight hours of power cuts, now has been abandoned without a book.
Going to school at USGAO to get a new textbook means trekking to the river bank for half an hour, crossing the WRD structure and hitching a ride from passing people.
“We have three children here who have lost not only their homes, but all of their books and clothes.
With years of experience to build a road that has never been heard, the least can do the government is to build a temporary shelter for us so we don’t continue to be a burden on our neighbors, “said Pratiksha Gawade.
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