00:00Our Get Real India story. Maharashtra is in the grip of a drought or several parts of Maharashtra
00:06certainly are facing drought at the moment. A village in Solapur district for example is up in
00:13arms. People there have put the village itself on sale in what is being described as a rather
00:19unique protest against what their demand is at the moment. A demand for water. Just give us water
00:28is what the villagers in Solapur are saying. It's our Get Real India story.
00:48A village in Maharashtra has put itself on sale. People of Tulshi village in Solapur want any of
00:55India's rich industrialists to buy them out. All they want in return is water.
01:10Villagers claim they resorted to this unique protest after their pleas for water were ignored
01:15by authorities.
01:18We want to make 10,000, 20,000. We are a small village. We are just so grateful to the
01:27government
01:27that our village will buy.
01:29We want to make 10,000, 20,000. The price of our village is only water. We want to make
01:4810,000,000. We
01:52want to make 10,000, 20,000. We want to make 10,000, 20,000, 20,000. The Sina Madha
02:01lift
02:01irrigation scheme which draws water from the Ujani Dam, a lifeline for Madha Taluka has been
02:07operational since 2000. But Tulshi village somehow wasn't included. After long protests, Tulshi was
02:17finally covered under the scheme. But water is yet to reach it. So the villagers are totally
02:26dependent on tankers, especially in this drought year.
02:33The city of Pasal, Tunisia, in Siobhan
02:38We want to have a transport of the children.
02:39There's a transport of the village here, what's going on?
02:41No, there's not a transport of young people here. We don't have water, we don't have enough work,
02:48we don't have enough work.
03:09No water to drink, no water for farming.
03:15Tulshi is desperately looking for help.
03:19With Nitin Shinde, Bureau Report, India Today.
