Saturday, September 5, 2009

Drought Put Focus on a Side of India Left Out of Progress

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/world/asia/05drought.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&src=ig--

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IDCA said...

Thanks for sharing the article. I concur with many observations. In fact, in my pilgrimage through India in these last 3 years since returning from Chicago, I have keenly observed the state and our people. One of the main issue is food security for all - development economics has shown income growth (higher salaries/returns) for the employed section of society but is resulting in food price inflation (one reason is: cost of employees are going up) ... thus pushing unemployed ones or those whose income hasn't grown towards Non-affordability of basic food commodity leading to starvation. This unevenness needs to be addressed immediately.

NREGA, Public Distribution (PDC) are all in this direction.

Regards,
Prashant Gupta
www.prashantgupta.info

October 1, 2009 at 4:38 PM

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