One villager says he has sold many of his animals over the last three months — a camel at 60,000 rupees; 13 goats for 3,000-4,000 rupees each.
“I am also planning to leave along with my family and animals,” he says.
Many of those still in the village may do the same soon.
This year, some parts of Tharparkar got no rain at all.
In other parts, the amount of rain was much less than normal and many villages did not receive all the three spells of rain they usually do.
He left behind four other children, all older than Hajra.
In 2014 and 2015, according to government officials working in the district, average per acre yield of major crops declined by 50%.
Sindh’s provincial government has set up as many as 600 Reverse Osmosis (RO) water filtration plants across Tharparkar to address the problem of drinking water in the district.
The provincial government has been distributing free wheat among the residents of Tharparkar every year since 2014.
This time round, he says, the reservoir has run out of water in the third year of the dry spell.