visakhapatnam villagers of a primitive tribal village ptg in the maoist stronghold mandal in andhra pradeshs alluri sitarama raju district turned into welldiggers to fulfil the drinking water needs of the villageteenage to even elderly persons took part in digging 4 meters to 5 meters length and breadth of drinking water well as the only well in the village was dried up 40 days agothe villagers of busupalli in vanjari panchayat of g madugula mandal requested the authorities to provide a dng water facility to their village in jal jivan mission as the only water source drinking well was dried up and the villagers were forced to drink the water in a contaminated stream parugeddabut officials expressed their inability and informed the villagers that the scheme was not sanctioned to the village a few villagers of more than 100 population village fell sick after drinking the parugedda water one of the villagers said the entire village held a meeting and decided to dig a well independently for drinking water needs villagers donated some money and dug a well near the village and ensuring prolonged water availabilityavailability of drinking water has become a big problem for us as the only source dried up we have requested the authorities to provide drinking water but they said that there was no sanction for the well we joined hands and contributed money for digging the well village sarpanch korra raveeni saidshe added that it took a couple of weeks for them to dig the well and construct the wells walls with cement they urged the officials to respond to their pleas and provide water through taps by arranging an electric motorthe rural water supply rws engineer a vijaya kumar said that they were sending the proposals for the water scheme and trying to provide tap water to the village