Click to play videoKendrapara (Orissa): Tubewells in Mantripada village in Orissa may look like any other around the country, but there's more here than meets the eye. All you need to do is pump and light a matchstick and you get not just water, but fire too!
Many tubewells in Mantripada emit inflammable gas, which some families are even using for their daily cooking. Like resident of Mantripada, Trilottama Nayak who is too poor to afford cooking gas, but for the last three months, her dal's been dangerously made on a stove, courtesy her backyard tubewell.
“I do all my cooking with the gas now. I face no problem at all. We dug tubewell to get water but got cooking gas in addition to water. It’s like a miracle,” Trilotama said.
Meanwhile, District Collector Kashinath Sahoo says he has called in authorities to investigate the phenomenon.
“It seems cooking gas is there under the ground. I have asked the Geological Survey of India to test the soil in the area and find out the reasons behind this,” Sahoo explained.
A team from the Geological Survey of India has visited Mantripada, but have not revealed their findings yet.
Similar incidents in other villages in the district suggest that there might be a reserve of natural gas beneath the ground there.
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