BUNDELKHAND,UTTAR PRADESH, 29/04/2016: (to go with Omar Rashid's article on Dried Ponds) BUNDELKHAND DROUGHT:: Scene of a dried pond at a village in district Hamirpur of drought-hit Bundelkhand area in Uttar Pradesh . Due to the acute water crisis and extreme heat condition, farmers did not dare to grow crops in the region. Hundreds of animals died because of lack of natural lakes and wells. Photo Rajeev Bhatt
BUNDELKHAND,UTTAR PRADESH, 25/04/2016: BUNDELKHAND DROUGHT:: An old farmer at a village in district Banda of drought-hit Bundelkhand area in Uttar Pradesh on Monday . Due to the acute water crisis and extreme heat condition, farmers didnot dare to grow crops in the region. Hundreds of animals died because of lack of natural lakes and wells. Photo Rajeev Bhatt
BUNDELKHAND,UTTAR PRADESH, 29/04/2016: (to go with Omar Rashid's article on Dried Ponds) BUNDELKHAND DROUGHT:: Scene of a dried pond at a village in district Hamirpur of drought-hit Bundelkhand area in Uttar Pradesh . Due to the acute water crisis and extreme heat condition, farmers did not dare to grow crops in the region. Hundreds of animals died because of lack of natural lakes and wells. Photo Rajeev Bhatt
LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH,24/04/2016 (to go with Omar Rashid's story):PECULIAR SOCIAL PROBLEM:: Unmarried men filling drinking water from a well near Pahadiwali Mata Mandir about about 2 kms from village Kapsa which is the sole source of drinking water in Hamirpur district of drought-hit Bundelkhand area in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. Because of lack of drinking water in Kapsa, and normallywomen do walk up to this well to fetch water, Parents are reluctant to get their daughters married to the boys from this village resulting large numbers of unmarried men. Photo Rajeev Bhatt
LUCKNOW,UTTAR PRADESH,23/04/2016:BUNDELKHAND DROUGHT:: Villagers fetching water from far flung area at a village in district Hamirpur of drought-hit Bundelkhand area in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday . Villagers recycle bathing water to wash their clothes due to the acute water crisis in the region. Hundreds of animals died because of lack of natural lakes and wells amidst extreme heat condition. Photo Rajeev Bhatt