This Get Real India ground report on News Today focusses on Maharashtra's Marathwada region, which, after years of grappling with drought, is now facing unprecedented rainfall and severe flooding.
00:00Welcome back, you are with the news today. Now for years, Maharashtra's Marathwada district or Marathwada region has grappled with drought.
00:10This year, it's very different. The area is grappling with unprecedented rainfall that has resulted in flooding the entire belt and displacement of several thousand people.
00:22Villages have been inundated as rescue attempts continue. The situation remains grim. It's our Get Real India ground report today from Marathwada.
00:36Maharashtra is grappling with severe rainfall. The Med Department has issued red and orange alerts for several districts.
00:44Many parts of the state are hit by floods. In Dharashiv, a youth had a narrow escape after being swept away along with his bike on the flooded Vagholi bridge near Kajla village.
00:58The raging waters caught him off guard but brave villagers jumped into action and rescued him just in time with a rope.
01:05A similar brush with death was reported from Lathur. A farmer from Chincholi village was washed away while trying to cross a flooded road on his bike.
01:24He was carried 600 feet downstream but miraculously clung onto a tree.
01:29Escaping death, the video has now gone viral.
01:38In Sambhaji Nagar, floodwaters have left dozens of families homeless.
01:45After over 3 lakh cusacks of water was released from the Jaikwadi Dam, people along with their livestock have been forced to live on the roadside in makeshift shelters.
01:55Relief teams and local youth are providing food and essentials.
01:59Relief teams and local youth are providing food and essentials.
02:00Relief teams and local youth is about to live on the streets.
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02:07Lakhshur tribe has been supported.
02:09In this area, we have been displaced.
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02:12We have killed and killed again from the police.
02:14In this area, we have to make food and killed again from now.
02:17In this area, I was an example of a large waste of the area.
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02:22Pethan, a town in Sambhajinagar, is flooded.
02:47Water entered several homes and shops.
02:50In Jalna district, over 8,000 people from low-lying villages were moved,
03:20to safer locations.
03:24The floods have left Maratwada farmers in distress.
03:28The real scale of devastation will be known in the coming days.
03:32The Maharashtra floods have left a trail of destruction, affecting at least 45 lakh hectares
03:41of land, while the state faces a staggering 9.25 lakh crore debt.
03:46Despite financial aid of 2,215 crores over the last three months and nearly 15,000 crores
03:55over the last three years, farmers are still struggling to cope.
04:00Now, how the government handles the crisis will affect and determine the future of countless
04:08lives with camera person Sachin Savan, myself, Ritvik Bhalekar, for India Today, Mumbai.
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