In India’s Maharashtra state, girls’ education is hit hard by drought


By AGENCY
School dropout Sangita Santosh (right) walks home after fetching water from a spring. Photo: SHEFALI RAFIQ/AFP

Each morning, 17-year-old Ramati Mangla sets off barefoot with a steel pot in hand, walking several kilometres to fetch water from a distant spring in India’s Maharashtra state.

By the time she returns, school has already started.

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