Digging a well is a job that has always been done by men. The work is not for the faint hearted. It is risky and laborious. Yet 300 women in Palakkad district’s Pookkottukavu Panchayat have become expert well-diggers, going deep into the earth in search of water.
The women, who are between 35 to 70 years old, are all NREGA job card holders. They have dug 185 wells in 13 wards of the panchayat and they have in hand applications for another 300 wells.
All the wells have been dug for. . .
