A water harvesting structure in Palamu does not yield a single drop of water but two quintals of most precious pulse the Raher daal. This water harvesting structure is at Khoora Khurd under Chainpur block and this water harvesting structure is on the land of Ram Kishun Oraon.
This water harvesting structure is almost land locked and catchment area or downstream is just difficult to locate said sources. However on top of this structure there is a massive Raher crop as high as one in which a five feet man can go unseen!
This water harvesting structure has no drop of water now just in the first week of February which suggests the location and site of this water harvesting structure is not in tune with the down water stream.
If this is the water harvesting structure which has Raher daal and not a drop of water then at Lohar Semi village there is a water harvesting structure right in the earthen check dam!
Sources said this water harvesting structure is a newly built water retention body while the earthen check dam is pretty old and has boulder pitching on one side too. Sources said the distance between these two water bodies is just a few feet.
However overzealous officials had no qualms in spending government money on a water body in a water body in a check dam. This water harvesting structure is of Mukteshwar Oraon.
DDC Palamu Sushant Gaurav said this issue would be looked into and as regards Raher daal in a water body and not a drop of water in it Gaurav said it too would be looked into as to how this site was so taken for this water body.
A Salatuwa village the irrigational facility is tough said Rawanti Devi mukhiya.
Here villagers first take water from Seori rivulet and then the collected water is put in a village well and then from this village well water is taken down by pump and pipe into the field having onion crop.
Here a 100x100 size water harvesting structure has come up but water in it is too absent. This structure is to wait for rains to come either in June or July or later months.