5 Mar 2003 5 minute read
This article is almost 17 years old.
... villages located in the worst droughtaffected regions of India had coped with yet another year of belowaverage ... droughts be called natural disasters? Not any more. Not in India. They are 'government-made' disasters. Over the past ... world, rainfall is variable and rainy days are few. In India, for instance, 50 per cent of the rain falls on about ...