People in the drought-hit areas of Maharashtra, especially from Marathwada region, are migrating to Pune and Hyderabad, Congress MP Rajani Patil says.

Marathwada, consisting of Aurangabad, Jalna, Parbhani, Nanded, Hingoli, Beed, Latur and Osmanabad districts, which were part of the erstwhile Nizam’s state of Hyderabad, has been known to be a drought-prone area.

While Aurangabad, the regional headquarters, has been supplying water twice a week, Latur gets water once in 15 days, according to reports coming here. Latur was the constituency of the late Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh and has been the Lok Sabha constituency of former Union minister and governor Shivraj Patil.

Late BJP leader Gopinath Munde had won the Beed Lok Sabha seat. Current PCC president Ashok Chavan is a Lok Sabha MP from Nanded. The Shiv Sena-BJP combine has been in power in the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation since 1988 but this has not solved the drinking water problem in the region, which still gets water through tankers..............Read more

Source web page: The Asian Age