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    RISE OF THE PANI PANCHAYATS

    Mar 20, 2021 2 minutes
    By ROMITA DATTA

     of land under irrigation is ‘water-deprived or water-denied’. “A farmer who loves his land will naturally want to see the farmlands of others taken care of. True, there have been major fights in the past, blood has been spilled over unequal distribution of water but it was all in the interests of the land,” says Samiullah Khan, secretary of the Usuma Pani Panchayat.

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