This is scandalous that people can starve to death and the government spends billions of dollars on arms and planes, (which the indians against flying iaf keep crashing anyway)
22 starvation deaths reported in MP
TIMES NEWS NETWORK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 08, 2002 12:40:57 AM ]
BHOPAL: There have been 22 alleged starvation deaths in the Vidisha district, about 90-minute drive from Bhopal, since October 22.
Reports of these deaths, including 12 of children, have come from four tribal villages of Nahariya, Khajuri, Lahadra and Lamanya. But the Madhya Pradesh government denies that these have anything to do with either starvation or malnutrition.
The government refuses to even acknowledge ‘‘unnatural’’ deaths. However, BJP’s MP from Vidisha Shivraj Singh Chauhan brought along over 200 ‘‘starvation victims’’ from the affected tribal hamlets ‘‘to open the eyes of chief minister Digvijay Singh.’’
The villagers allege that while hunger took its toll, no one from the government visited them.
Three months ago, Mallu — a tribal from Nahariya village — lost his job as a labourer when stone cutting was banned in the forests. Coupled with the loss of soyabean crops due to drought, Mallu and his fellow villagers had nothing to eat by mid-September. The situation was similar in other villages of the district.
The villagers survived on dalia made out of sama — a wild grass seed — for several weeks.
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