Randeep Hooda Joins Khalsa Aid To Provide Drinking Water In Drought-Hit Areas Of Maharashtra
More than 42 percent of India is &ldquoabnormally dry&rdquo as per Drought Early Warning System. This is 6 percent higher than the last year In Maharashtra the situation is quite worse The heat wave has hit nearly 50 percent of Maharashtra&rsquos geographical area. And people there are deprived of drinking water.
More than 42 percent of India is ¡°abnormally dry¡±, as per Drought Early Warning System. And this is 6 percent higher than the last year. In Maharashtra the situation is quite worse. The heat wave has hit nearly 50 percent of Maharashtra¡¯s geographical area. And people there are deprived of drinking water.
Actor Randeep Hooda has turned a good samaritan yet again and has joined the relief efforts in drought-hit area of Maharashtra.
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Randeep Hooda has joined UK-based international humanitarian relief organisation Khalsa Aid to provide drinking water to the people drought hit Vele village.
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Not only that, he also took to social media to share a video in which he is seen urging the government to "find permanent solutions" for the drought victims.
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¡°I am in village Vele (near Nasik). There is a great shortage of water, especially drinking water... All wells have dried up. This is a serious problem every summer. This area gets hit by drought.
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"Khalsa Aid team is here, volunteers are doing great ground work here by providing 25 to 30 water tankers everyday. I urge the government to step in and help these people and find some permanent solutions. A lot of dams are here, but people do not have access to it,¡± he says in the video.
This is not the first time that Randeep Hooda has joined Khalsa Aid to extend help for a cause. On his birthday, he went to Kerala last year to help the flood victims and served food. Furthermore, he has been part of many Khalsa Aid missions including the cleaning of Juhu beach after the Ganpati Visarjan in 2017.
Apart from Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat and Rajasthan have also been badly affected by drought.
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