Arunachal Man Walks 225 Km Demanding Clean Water For His Town

Sol Dodum started his journey from his hometown Seppa - the district headquarters of East Kameng district situated on the bank of the Kameng river - on April 15 and reached Itanagar on Monday evening.

A young activist from Arunachal Pradesh completed a 225 km journey on foot to Itanagar on Monday against the state government's alleged failure to provide clean drinking water to each household in his town.

Sol Dodum started his journey from his hometown Seppa - the district headquarters of East Kameng district situated on the bank of the Kameng river - on April 15 and reached Itanagar on Monday evening.

He later sat on a protest in Itanagar seeking steps from the state government to finish work on the drinking water projects for providing safe drinking water to each household.

He alleged that corrupt practices by officials of the public health engineering department delayed work on water supply projects at Seppa, increasing people's struggle for drinking water