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Sachin Dhike is barely 16 and has realized that survival is more important in times of drought than pursuing his dream of completing his education and making it big in life someday. The Class X student from a remote hamlet near Lasur station has dropped out of school and joined hundreds of villagers from various parts of this drought-hit district migrating to the town, around 60 km away, in a desperate search for some odd job. Every day, around 1,000 people from villages close to Aurangabad reach the city in the morning, pick up some odd jobs and return home in the evening with a day’s salary. Some of the villagers have been doing this for the past couple of years, but this year the number is higher. “There is no guarantee that we would get work in the city every day. Sometimes we return home empty handed,” said Ramdas Kadam, a resident of Parsoda village located around 70 km from Aurangabad. The wages these migrants earn vary — anything around Rs 250 to Rs 300 a day, depending upon the nature and urgency of work. With summer yet to peak, the number of villagers migrating to the city in search of work is likely to increase. The villagers coming to the city have to rely on labour contractors. They work as daily labourers, as most of them are not literate. Those with some basic technical knowledge manage to eke out a living by repairing cellphones and calculators. A day’s earning in the town is also insufficient to support a family back home. “If I earn around Rs 250 a day, I spend around Rs 100 on transport. The rest is left to buy food and daily groceries,” said Raosaheb Pawar, another migrant . Kadam said unavailability of water for agriculture in Parsoda compelled him to leave home. “Water is not available in our village and the nearby sources have dried up. We have to walk at least 5 km in search of drinking water from groundwater sources,” he said. Kadam said tankers reach the village once in eight days and the supply does not meet the demand. His family of five cannot sustain on the five pots of water given every week. Members of the Water Care Forum, a non-political organisation comprising experts from different fields in the city, have decided to enlist the help of former President APJ Abdul Kalam in their endeavour for the preservation and revival of the 400-year-old water circulation system Nahar-e-Ambari.
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migration, village, water, circulation, family, non-political organisation, city, education, school, villagers, jobs, migrating, Aurangabad, drought-hit, drought, food, groceries, agriculture, home
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