Shift IPL out of Maharashtra this year due to drought conditions

ALERT CITIZENS FORUM OF INDIA
1) Hon. Chief Minister of Maharashtra
2) Shri Shashank Manohar, President of
Board of Control for Cricket in India.
Sub: Request to shift IPL matches out of Maharashtra this year.
Dear Sirs,
What a coincidence that you both are from Nagpur, Vidarbha, which along with Marathwada region is reeling under the worst drought conditions the state has witnessed in many years.
Over 15,000 villages in the state are affected by this drought.
Farmers are committing suicides unable to combat the situation.
The Maharashtra Govt. is grappling to find a solution for the problem.
On this backdrop, the IPL begins from April 9, 2016.
16 matches are planned to be played in 3 Centers of Maharashtra - Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur.
Sir ji, it is estimated that roughly 80,000 to 1,00,000 litres per application, are required to maintain a Cricket ground in good condition.
Every week one has to have 3 such applications.
So, 1 lakh x 3 = 3 lakh litres of water every week x 4 weeks = 12 lakhs litres of water in a month x 2 months = 24 lakhs litres of water for maintaining 1 centre x 3 centres = 72 lakh litres of water needed to have IPL matches in Maharashtra - and that too when the state is going through a drought.
Here, some may argue that anyway routine maintenance of grounds require water and that IPL will fetch extra revenue for the state.
Sir, you have to decide whether you want to make money for the state in the face of dying farmers or whether you would like to project a human face and empathy for the suffering residents of Maharashtra by shifting the IPL elsewhere this year.
Choice is yours.
We request you to shift the IPL out of Maharashtra this year.
Regards,
For Alert Citizens Forum of India,
Dayanand Nene (President)
Jitendra Satpute, Prasad Bedekar, Kiran Joshi, Adv Shreerang Mulye, Pramod Date, CS Sandhya Malhotra, Amit Sawant.