Flood Sans River LIMBADI

LIMBADIMakeshift washing ghats(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIBrought in sharp contrast: Trekking further, Bhatana points to the fault line dividing his fields. Water logging has caused half of the standing crop to rot.(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIColours of a calamity: Women walk back with the relief material distributed at the village panchayat office.(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIA hot afternoon getaway- Boys dive off the main road connecting Surendranagar to Limbadi Taluka.(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIBhatana says it will take years before anything grows on his fields. New soil will have to be spread.(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIPeople break que waiting outside the panchayat office. Representatives of the Ramakrishna mission, distributing relief in this village call out names as per village records. The Government is still to announce compensation.(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIWaters begin corroding road surfaces, making them unsafe for driving.(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIThe new ferry way: Boats take people to their homes now(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIThe burden remains: Woman comes out holding the relief material- a blanket, one bottle of cooking oil and grain filled in sacks meant for cement.(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIJust another edifice: Surrounded by water, the village tank of Mota Katechi in Limbadi taluk remains out of reach for the people facing drinking water shortage.(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIUndeclared holidays: At the field office of Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary.(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIEn route to a flooded village in Limbadi taluk, we drove by Kantibhai Bhatana’s fields. To one side of the road was land still under water, to the other were these denuded fields.(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)

LIMBADIEnd of the road: At Mota Katechi Village. We couldn’t travel further to other villages reachable only by boats.(By Ravleen Kaur (Reporter, Down to Earth)Photographs by Meeta Ahlawat)