New Delhi: Most farmers are ecstatic when the rains arrive. Not Sanjay Kumar. The 37-year-old resident of Rawta village in southwest Delhi dreads the monsoons. One heavy shower and his farm gets submerged. This year too, his investment of Rs 25,000 on paddy went to waste. Unneeded water is a bane for Rawta’s farmers throughout the year, with the runoff from the Najafgarh jheel, Najafgarh drain and wastewater from Gurgaon all making it to this side of the border.
For two decades, Rawta residents have struggled with a surfeit of water, the level of which rises several feet during the monsoon season. The 5,000 villagers know Rawta has been earmarked as a special Green Development Area (GAD) in the draft Master Plan Delhi 2041, but they would be glad just to have the flooding resolved. While the people grow rice and wheat in the village, very often even the water-intensive paddy farming fails due to submergence for overlong periods.
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