Chaklamba Village information

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Chaklamba is a village based in the Georai Taluka of Beed district of the state of Maharashtra. It falls under the region of Marathawada of the division of Aurangabad. The village was in the news when villagers had constantly undertaken relay hunger strikes to press for a sub-canal from Jayakwadi to their villages, where the average rainfall in the 2018 monsoon was just about 300 millimeter. Nearly two decades ago, the largest local water resource collapsed which caused severe depletion of groundwater. A few showers of water were sufficed for an average crop that season. But the area's water crisis looked set to deepen in the long run. As per the survey of GSDA, more than half the villages where it found depletion by over 3 meters from the five-year average are in Marathwada (1,467 villages). As per the villagers, bore-wells and wells were offering muddy water and they were still filling up with plastic drums for their daily needs.^[1]