kaza lahaulspiti with scanty rainfall and negligible winter snow many villages of spiti sub division in tribal lahaulspiti district are facing droughtlike conditions due to which they are worried about their main cash crop of green pea and barley problem is severe in the six villages of hikkim komic langza demul chicham and kibber having a population of over 2600 during the visit of chief minister sukhvinder singh sukhu to the valley a delegation of villagers from langza had brought the issue into his notice and had requested a permanent solution to their problem chief minister sukhvinder singh sukhu said that he has been aware of the matter and his government would find a permanent solution to the probleminterestingly 5 villages out of total six are situated at an altitude of over 14000 feet local people said that problems started 34 years back with less snowfall received during winters lahaulspiti mla ravi thakur said that 40 villages of lahaulspiti district are facing acute shortage of water for irrigation he said that failure of previous bjp regime to effectively implement the jal jeevan mission has aggravated the problem he said that chief minister sukhvinder singh sukhu has been requested to prepare a master plan for entire tribal district to solve the problem of water scarcityravi thakur said that it is not only about the hikkim komic langza demul chicham and kibber villages alone but there are many other villagers where water is not available for irrigation and people are finding it hard to start the sowing season this time he said that even in lahaul there are panchayats like tandi jahalma thirot darcha and ranika where water for irrigation is not available he said that last year many villages in spiti failed to get cash crop due to shortage of waterlara chhering a resident of langza village situated at an altitude of 14500 feet above sea level said that the problem of having adequate water to irrigate land has left the villagers worried about their future he said that last year the residents of langza village failed to get pea crop which is the main cash crop of spiti and barley crop whose grain is used as staple food while its hay is used as fodder for cattlepadma doje of demul village situated at an altitude of 14170 feet above sea level said that the village has no permanent source of irrigation and they have to depend mainly on the winter snow he said that as now less snowfall is being recorded the villagers are not getting good crops and last year crop production was very less the residents of hikkim village situated at an altitude of 14400 feet above sea level too have similar stories to tell villagers said that the missing irrigational facility is making cultivating land unproductivetandup namgial a resident of chicham village situated at an altitude of 13615 feet above sea level said that if the state government did not provide the irrigational facilities then sowing pea