Founder Editor
KANU SANYAL
Editor-in-Chief
VISWAM
Editorial Board
P.Jaswantha Rao
Subodh Mitra
Aloke Mukherjee
Madhu
Vol. 7, Issue : 12
December 2015
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Contents:
1. Editorial:
- Distress of Peasants
1
2. World Affairs:
- Toney Blair’s Apology
3
- UN Resolution on Syria
4
- Indian interference Nepal
4
3. Political & Economic Notes:
- On Kashmir Situation
5
- Another Sedition Case
6
- Chennai Deluge
7
- Swachh Bharat
8
- Bhopal Gas Victims
10
- Passenger Safety at Peril
17
4. Labour File:
- Unending woes of Workers
11
- Agitations of People
15
5. Reports:
- Haryana
20
- Orissa
21
6. Obituary:
- Dr. B.D. Sharma
24
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Due to poor monsoon, the soya crop in MP ripened, but the
pods are without seeds making it worthless. Worse a yellow virus
for the first time attacked the white lentil (urad) and destroyed the
entire crop. The state government declared 40 out of 51 districts
as drought hit. Agriculture in MP is mainly rain fed. Poor monsoon
coupled with falling ground water level and shortages of electricity
have exacerbated the drought situation.
Chhattisgarh government declared 117 tahsils as drought hit
which lost 50 per cent of crops.
The drought situation has worsened further in Maharashtra,
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana – chronically drought prone regions.
While more than 40 per cent of the country reels under the
conditions of drought for the second year, only 7 states out of 18
(Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Odisha
and Uttar Pradesh) declared about 200 districts as drought hit.
Some of them have sent reports to the central government
requesting financial help to provide immediate relief. The remaining
states have yet to take into cognizance of the drought conditions
prevailing in their states. It shows the apathy of the rulers towards
the sufferings of the peasant masses.
As Ashok Gulati of ICAER said “rural distress is deepening. It
has broken the back of farmers. The government, including the
bureaucrats, should switch from dormant mode to active mode”.
On the contrary, the centre and the states have engaged in a
blame game. The centre claimed that it had increased the number
of