The residents of Lohara, one of the recently merged villages in Yavatmal Municipal Council, is facing an acute shortage of drinking water, locals said.
Former sarpanch of the village Anil Deshmukh said the authorities were showing deliberate apathy towards the situation.
The ground water table in the area has gone down, causing the wells and borewells in the village to dry up, he said.
"We have brought this to the notice of the district administration and even staged a one-day dharna but to no avail," he said.
Though the state Government had notified the merger of seven gram panchayats on the outskirts of Municipality, no plan had been prepared to tackle issues of the area so far, he further alleged.
On Monday, Shiv Sena took out a morcha to the Chief Officer of Yavatmal Municipal Council and submitted a memorandum demanding immediate deployment of tankers for supplying drinking water to the area.
