Water for Chumpaguda
Champaguda Drinking Water Project Champaguda village, tucked away on the Arakku Valley in the Eastern Ghat, has 200 households with nearly 700 people trying to make a living with the nature, with too little amenities. Most of the facilities of a modern world have not yet reached these villages that are about 3000 ft above the mean sea level. People who come to Arakku valley, a famous tourist hilltop location in Andhra Pradesh for its scenic beauty, never see the native people who live on these hills. Konda Dora people long for water Arakku is 120 km away by railway and 150 km away by road from Vizag or Visakhapatnam. Both these routes are unique, different and photogenic. Champaguda is ten kilometers away from Arakku and to reach there, there are no buses. There is an anganwadi with about 25 children and a transit primary school with 1-3 standards housing about 40 children. Anyone who likes to study beyond that has to walk 10 kilometers. The nearest village is Nand...