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A leprosy colony of around 350 families at Antulay Nagar in Yewalewadi, ahead of Kondhwa in south Pune, looks like forgotten land. The area, which merged with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) around five years ago, does not have proper roads and the shanties where the survivors as well as patients of the dreaded disease live can be called anything but homes. Above all, during a visit, Mirror found the people, most of whom have been disabled by the illness, struggling for water. The issue has been prevailing for over two months. “We don’t have access to basic amenities like water and proper roads. We don’t have a fixed time for water supply, which impacts my morning schedule. My son has to miss his classes as I am busy filling the containers with water. I appeal to the authorities to make it a timely affair, so that our work is not affected,” Jayshree Sudhir Bokariya, a mother of two kids who lost her right hand and fingers to leprosy, told Mirror. Read more on https://t.co/6TbbxYUGdu #leprosy #watershortage #punemirror