Team Herald
BICHOLIM: The incessant rains that lashed the State has brought down the only dwelling place of 80-year-old Parvati Gaonkar from Parye Sattari.
The octogenarian now has no place to go but forced to live in a home with a partially collapsed roof which might come down any moment. Parvati has lives all alone and has no family members to support her making it even more difficult to seek compensation from the government.
“During elections, she was promised a house,” says a neighbour Krutika Gaonkar and adds that now one cares for her. Neighbours have covered her two room mud house with tarpaulin so that water does not seep in. The walls have already developed cracks too.
Parvati survives on Rs 2000 she gets as pension from the government and it is not enough to repair her house, say neighbours.
A visit to her residence by this correspondent has brought to fore Parvati’s sad plight. The elderly woman has no gas stove and cooks on a chullah but with rain water seeping in, it is just not possible for her to light the fire and cook food and at times goes to bed on an empty stomach.
