How An Engineer From Bangalore Solved A Water Crisis In His Village In 24 Hours?

Water Crisis is one of the major household problems in the Indian villages. Unfortunately, even the metropolitan cities now end up with such issues. However, the question is who is taking the first step in eradicating such never ending problems? 

There is a man from Bangalore who solved a major water crisis in his village which was burdening the locals from a long period of time.

Meet Vishnuvardhan from Bangalore, a Chatbot Developer who took a bold initiative to eradicate the water crisis from his village - Muddalapuram, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh.

Armed with a PG degree in Computer Science from NIT Surathkal, Vishnu is an R&D member working in a Start-up at Bangalore. Hailing from a conservative family with traditional values, he always had an urge to create some value to the society.  

March 16th, 2017 - 11 am

Since September 2016, the village - Muddalapuram, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh was facing a drought and major water crisis. Vishnu’s hometown was no less when it comes to agricultural problems. The local villagers would travel on wheels to the nearby towns to borrow water and this process has been continued from a long period of time.

 When Vishnu questioned the local authorities, they turned deaf to his plea. He was left with two options, leave his village and head back to his work or take up the issue seriously.

After the local authorities were not serious about the water crisis in the village, Mr. Vishnu dropped a mail to the ‘Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation’ after coming to about the issue through his mother and he also added few officials in the list headed back to his work hoping the Government would solve the Water Crisis in his village. 

March 16th, 2017 - 8 pm.

When Vishnu reached Bangalore in the evening, he had to rush to his office for a client meet up. However, things turned out to be lucky, when he received a call from a ‘Chief Scientist’ of the ‘Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation Department’.

They took the issue seriously by immediately ordering the AP Government (local authorities) to take action and also sent few officials to investigate the matter.

The investigating officials tried to compensate with the existing water sources. Since the issue was already spread to the central government, they had to replace with a fully functioned bore well which would feed the entire village in the coming years.

Now, Vishnu’s village was not among the crisis-stuck ones.

While it has become a fashion for people to play the blame-game towards the government, politicians etc, here comes an engineer who has chosen to ‘be the change’.

Vishnu is paving a new example for today’s gen. Share this story so this can inspire more people to follow his example.

Written By Vishal Aryan Komara

Digital Marketeer and Content Writer.

 http://vishalaryan.blogspot.in

True Story On Corruption Explained By Narendra Modi In The Vigilance Awareness Programme. Must Read!

‘People who do corruption are very creative’. Addressing the gathering Modi said, Politicians are considered to be the most corrupted folks in the society. He was against corruption and also said it can’t be present in the system and it’s therefore necessary to be alert all the time. While endorsing his initiative ‘Digital India’, he quoted - ‘Technology can play a crucial role in bringing transparency in the system.

A Small Anecdote from his Speech -

Once there was a Government Servant who was known to be highly corrupt and unscrupulous. The government had a tough time to replace him in other divisions fearing he would continue corruption over there too. After an intense meeting, few higher officials from the government came up with an idea of transferring him to the railway station. He was appointed as an officer where his duty was to make announcements regarding the departures and arrivals. Those higher officials assumed this would be the only way they could teach him a lesson. They thought he would mend his ways after this change.

However this guy had devious plans to his credit. In the first week, it went on good as he started making the regular announcements. After few days, the game started to begin. His target was the coolies aka ‘porters’. He started to make announcements like - luggage consisting one bag - Rs.5, luggage consisting two bags Rs.10, luggage consisting three bags Rs.15 and so on.

This plan deeply affected the porters as they couldn’t bear the sudden drop of prices. So the entire Porter union thought of meeting this officer and opposing his rules.

The next day when the officer was ready to start his songs, he could sense his plan working as there was a mighty group of porters waiting outside his cabin. The head of the porter union entered his cabin to blurt out their struggles.

Without wasting his time, the officer said - “Let us negotiate a deal and he signed off”.

Moral - People who are corrupt are very creative. And that’s the reason, Mr. Modi while addressing kept on telling, it's very necessary to be alert all the time to eradicate Corruption.

• Written By Vishal Aryan Komara