Kril Mangu, 35, a small piggery owner and a ginger farmer is one of the many inhabitants at Umpathaw, a hamlet -- 85 kilometres from Shillong – with around 106 households, who saw a constructive change in his life in the last few months.
Mangu gets water supply 24x7. The pigs at his piggery are being bred and once they are grown up, he would sell them for thousands of rupees in markets. He is now planning to send his children to a state government-run school in the village that has a “smart classroom”.
“Before March, we had to walk more than a kilometre to the Umpathaw river to bring water. I saw my children crying for clean water. Now, all the inhabitants have access to clean drinking water throughout the day, thanks to six water tanks set up by HDFC Bank under Holistic Rural Development Programme (HRDP),” Mangu said.
