Struggle Behind Beauty

The first visual that pops up into our head when we talk about hilly areas is that of Fresh air, Pure water, Adorable scenes, Peace, mountains, alps, gratification, relaxation. To overcome the problems of life we moved to hill stations for having peace, relaxing our mind, to open all our senses and to enjoy the glittering scenes of the heavens in the Earth.

But that’s not the whole story. Definitely not.

Have you ever imagined that the way of enjoyment for us can also be the way of living for them and the struggle they face? Yes, I’m talking about the struggle of hilly areas peoples, their struggle for livelihood, education, health care facilities, public transport, daily need items and the struggle to survive.

A lot of migration has been recorded to metro-cities for the search of a better life but if you look deeper they don’t have any other options. Following are the reason and option they have for Nourishment.

Lets start the struggle story :-

EDUCATION

Although it has a very good statistic over the literacy rate of around 82%. But still, there are many places in Uttarakhand ( a HILLY STATE of INDIA) where the struggle for education never ends. An average location of school from the locality is more than 4 km which they have to cover by there foot, the infrastructure of the school is worst then the public toilets in cities, so you can imagine where our youth stand. the statistical data stuck the mind that govt spend only 3.5%of state GDP in Education and expecting the youth to stay on the state. I am from the state and in spite of having government school in our land I never went for schooling there. The reason is simple given below.

There are approx 1689 primary schools in 13 district having 39000 students and 1 teacher. If the teacher is absent then around 1500 schools remain shut. The Bageshwar district has 235 schools with one teacher, Almora has 231, Narkonda village in Dehradun district has 70 students under one teacher, Chamoli has 122, Pithoragarh has 222, Rudraprayag has 165, Pauri Garhwal has 158.

Even in my village the primary school is running worthlessly.

Rather than proving teachers and good infrastructure to students, the government has decided to close more than 1500 schools including higher secondary schools. The schools have become ghost buildings and the youth are suffering more. They are bound to work on a low scale in cities.

In the above pic, the school has become the ghost building and it only opened at the time of election poll. Same as the above schools there are around 50 schools in Pithoragarh district become ghost building.

Water Supply

Being a hilly state, there are several natural as well as manmade water bodies. Rivers, lakes, springs or gadheras, tube wells, dug wells, Koops, River Bank Filtration units etc. are the major drinking and irrigation water sources.

But the Hilly regions of Central Himalayans facing the problem of water supply in Uttarakhand. The naulas, Dharas(springs), Gadheras, tube wells etc. becomes dry because of global warming. For the arrangement of water, the people usually move to near naulas which is around 5 to 6 km far away from their home because no water connection is provided yet.

Except for Nainital and Dehradun district rest, 11 have the problem of water supply. Now you can imagine other states are giving free water to peoples the natives of Uttarakhand are still facing the problem of water after his birth of 20 years. Uttarakhand is the origin of main rivers like Ganga, Yamuna, Koshi, Kali Nadi, Ramganga.

In the absence of proper rainwater harvesting structures in the region, rainwater is hardly available and stream water is available only for the people living close to river-banks. Due to largely varied population density in the region, the majority of the people do not have access to these supplies and are generally dependent on the local sources of water supply (springs) and dug wells (only in the valleys).

Groundwater can be an important alternative source for meeting the water needs of this region. Groundwater is considered to be a sustainable source of water supply in a region because it can provide a year-round supply of good quality water if properly developed.

The jal board authority of Uttarakhand has taken many steps to rejuvenate the naulas but still not at that level. The Himalayan areas have very much fractured rock structures which result in the rapid diffusion of precipitation below the ground and makes it very tough to tap the groundwater. The problem can be solved if there is proper pumping facility available for supply of water.

The question might be stuck on your head that why I only quoted Uttarakhand not other hilly stations. well there is no specific reason for that, I have born in Uttarakhand and I have monitored it so closely. Other hilly states also have a same picture but it depends on the political stability on a state which is lacking in Uttarakhand.

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