Hope Floating Above the Floodwaters: How Grassroots Mobilization Saved 500 Haryana Villages
Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj Revives Flood-Affected Villages of Haryana: Hope Returns, Fields Turn Green Again, and Wheat Sowing Resumes When severe waterlogging submerged hundreds of acres of farmland across parts of Haryana, many farmers feared they would miss an entire agricultural season. Standing crops were destroyed, fields remained underwater for weeks, and in some villages, floodwater even reached residential areas. However, large-scale drainage efforts carried out under the Annapurna Campaign of Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj helped several affected villages remove stagnant water and resume cultivation. Residents of Bhaini Maharajpur, Dhani Premnagar, Khairampur, and Mujadpur say the intervention played a major role in bringing their farmland back into use. Bhaini Maharajpur (Rohtak ) In Bhaini Maharajpur village of Rohtak district, around 250–300 acres of farmland remained submerged under 4–5 feet of water. Paddy and other Kharif crops had already been lost, and fru...