Drought By Design: Official Apathy Worsening Crisis?

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  • Published On: April 14, 2016
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As drought worsens across India, our TV screens and newspapers are full of images of human distress. But what is not being asked enough is how it came to this? Despite the third successive year of poor rains, why was the Centre and and state government's caught unawares? We investigate how basic operating procedures were ignored, worsening the impact of drought 2016.

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