Fixing the drought
For a large part of the year anybody who was anybody in India talked about match fixing in cricket. When Parliament was in session there was a hue and cry over the Ayodhya issue but hardly a whisper in the corridors of power over drought. Ayodhya and match fixing became issues for nationwide debate. But not the drought. Therefore the prime minister's Christmas gift of Rs 2,600 crore worth of foodgrain to the poorest of the poor in the country comes as a welcome surprise. But is this measure sufficient to tackle the drought? Is it even targeted to tackle the problem?
We have a strange situation. On one hand there is drought and food scarcity
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