UDAIPUR, June 8 (TIWN): Access to clean and safe drinking water has become scarce in the interior parts of Udaipur. Even today there are families which simply rely on the contaminated water streamed in to the area.

In this golden era of the state where the ruling Government is busy in assuring safe drinking water to the rural population, in the mean time they skipped to notice the unavailability of the safe and clean drinking water in the rural part of Tripura.

Detailing about the area it has been further said that an area of Killa Block, Nittya Bazar, Darjeeling Bari, Thelakong and Deowan Bari along with others faces acute access to safe drinking water. Further, during the monsoon season the population of the area suffers from various water borne diseases.

There are sections of population which mostly depends on the contaminated water of the stream running through the area somewhere in the far-flung. They take bath, wash their cloths on the stream and unfortunately fetch the same stream water to quench their thrust. Consumption of contaminated water results in increase in water borne disease in the area.

Despite of the several tall claims made by the ruling Government over the development of the state saying this is the golden era of the state, the poor scenario of consumption of contaminated water ooze out of the unnoticed interior part of Tripura.

Water is the basic need of every human being. Where a section of urban Tripura has been simply wasting the excess water, on the other hand women and children of the rural areas are mostly affected by the dearth of safe and clean drinking water. Mostly, the children get easily succumb to the water borne diseases resulting Malaria, diarrhea and other diseases.

According to the report, on one hand where the state government has been distributing huge number of tube wells and various equipments to the needy people to get access to clean drinking, on the other hand women have to walk several kilometers to collect a bucket of water that too contaminated.

The women residing in the far-flung areas carry 4 to 5 pots full of water over their head covering huge distance to meet the basic need of their family. Bearing the burden of walking miles in search of water goes to vain when the families comes under the grip of water borne diseases.

Now the question arises that where a section of population has been deprived from consumption of clean and safe drinking water and are left to consume the contaminated water of the stream, at the same time how can the ruling Government claim it to be the golden era.