Re: Food riots erupt in India
It is the army and air force that are always pressed into service when such massive catastrophes occur. In Bihar's case this time, the army was pressed into service even before actual major flooding started, as soon as it came to notice that the Assam an Bihar rivers were rising alarmingly. But since over 200 dams were damaged due to the level of waterflow, the kosi river is actually said to have changed course! this meant army found its routes cut of and many villages got isolated even though they were originally being serviced. Hence the airforce.
But for defence spending amy and airforce will not have been able to handle this situation, even to this extent.
But one thing is coming back to us again and again but for some reason we don't accept the common sense. Brahmaputra (and its feeder and tributary system) floods frequently - it should be connected into a national grid of rivers with the mid;and and Southern rivers so that two problems are solved at once - the excess water from the north east can be sent to water starved south and southeast, thus avoiding floods and draughts!
But, our government and politicians are more interested in issues that help divide population and use wedge issues to influence vote banks. This is the sad state of us Indians today. Just saying the truth