66 Farmer Commit Suicide in 21 days in Marathwada
66 distressed farmers have committed suicides in the past 21 days in eight districts of the Marathwada region
Drought
Famines through the ages
Data shows that not drought itself but limited state capacity or government negligence has been the leading cause of famine through the 20th century
Karnataka govt releases Rs 671 cr compensation to farmers
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said that the government had decided to release Rs 671 crore compensation towards crop loss to nearly 10 lakh farmers who were
deeply affected by drought that is prevailing in the State for thesecond successive year.
In a Twitter message the farmers will get compensation in form of input subsidy and it will be transferred directly to their bank accounts.
UNI
Uttarakhand: How much can the Hills take?
The unregulated influx of tourism in Uttarakhand every year imposes heavy burden on the limited resource
Mukesh Rawat Delhi
IPL: Circus, and the Controversy
The Indian Premier League finds itself in a soup once again, this time because of the water crisis
Sandeep Kumar Delhi
Maharashtra: Parched, thirsty and Dying
The drought now covers 28,662 of Maharashtra’s 43,000 villages. That’s a whopping 66 per cent of the rural population. And yet the state government seems utterly clueless and insensitive
Aritra Bhattacharya Mumbai
Thar’s Prophecy
Thirsty saplings struggling to survive, stunted growth of crops, abandoned fields, dried up ponds: in the desert these are telling signs of prolonged scarcity and a winter of misery that is in the offing Rahul Ghai Bikaner
It’s raining DIRTY Money here…
Even while people in Marathwada and Vidarbha crave for rains and relief, politicians not only hate rains, they are declaring normal rainfall zones as drought-hit. Clearly, financial bounties of drought relief are too high Aritra Bhattacharya Aurangabad (Maharashtra)
Maya JUST doesn’t care
The Mayawati regime approved of Rs 556 crore for construction of parks and statues, but allocated only Rs 250 crore for drought relief. Even that money is not reaching as helpless people starve in drought-hit UP Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow
Everyone loves a Good DROUGHT
Both home and world prices greeted the news of drought by moving up. Will the government rein in the profiteering market forces and ‘relief bureaucracy’ that loves every drought as a boon? Kamal Nayan Kabra Delhi