Springing free

Natural springs are the stars that need to be kept in the pink, and the people ensuring it are villagers who appreciate better than before how vital this is to their water security. That’s the crux of a transformative initiative undertaken by the North East Initiative Development Agency (NEIDA), an associate entity of the Tata Trusts, in 287 villages across Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland.