With nearly one million rural people of Ajmer district alone facing severe drought for the third consecutive year, the Rajasthan government is launching famine relief works from Monday next, official sources said on Saturday.
About one lakh people have already migrated to bigger cities for employment while thousands of cattle heads have been taken by their owners to Bundi, Kota and Jhalawar areas in search of fodder, Ram Chandra Choudhary, President of Ajmer district (rural) Congress committee told PTI.
There is acute shortage of fodder and water. Situation is more grim on fodder front as not a single tender has been received in response to advertisement issued by the district administration for its transportation, Choudhary said.

Rupees 70 lakh worth of reimbursements to the Ajmer dairy, Gram Panchayat and cooperative societies which transported fodder during last drought were not made so far, he said.

“However, the state government has now constituted a committee to look into it,” he added.

Meanwhile, water level in wells, which was at about 25 feet, has further gone down by 10 feet on an average. However, the district administration has planned to make arrangements to supply water by tankers from the Banas dam, the sources said.

“Ajmer, Beawar, Kishangarh, Kekri and Nasirabad would benefit from this dam,” they said. Bureau Report