-Scroll.in Dry ponds have become the graveyard of dead animals. Governments are neither counting the dead, nor helping those still alive. It breathed its last on the morning of April 20. Its tiny legs collapsed as it inched close to a handpump near the village temple. Villagers took the body away. The calf lay on the dry bed of the village pond in Achchara in Madhya Pradesh's Tikamgarh district, one of the 13 districts...
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Cattle facing a famine in Bundelkhand, finds survey -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Compensation for crop loss due six months ago is yet to reach farmers, says Swaraj Abhiyan Villages across drought-hit Bundelkhand, a hilly region divided between the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, are reporting an abnormally high number of cattle deaths due to acute shortage of fodder and water, said a survey released on Monday. “For cattle the famine has arrived,” the survey by non-profit organization Swaraj Abhiyan said, adding,...
More »Swaraj Abhiyan to launch padyatra through drought area -Rosamma Thomas
-The Times of India JAIPUR: Swaraj Abhiyan has announced results of a third survey conducted in seven UP districts and four MP districts falling in the Bundelkhand region. The survey, conducted over the phone, showed that the Drinking water situation is dire in many villages - in 40% of villages surveyed there were only two functional hand pumps. Unable to provide fodder and water to cattle, villagers have taken to letting...
More »Drought situation grim in Bundelkhand, shows latest survey findings of Swaraj Abhiyan
-Press Note from Swaraj Abhiyan A latest survey of the drought stricken Bundelkhand region lying across Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh shows a crisis bordering on famine. While rains are at least 6-8 weeks away, Drinking water crisis has hit its peak and has crossed the danger mark in the MP part of the region. Those living on the margins of society face hunger like situation and are being pushed...
More »From Plate to Plough: Drop by careful drop -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express Convert crisis into opportunity: Shift from supply side augmentation to demand side management. Scattered “mango rains” have brought a little respite from scorching heat in certain places. Earlier, IMD’s forecast of above normal monsoon rains had given some hope for forthcoming acche din. Yet, a sizeable part of India is still smouldering under the grip of a drought. Bundelkhand and Marathwada are just samples, but in reality more...
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