From the archive record
The gravity of drought this year will be most severe than past 3 years. It will directly fall on the poor especially on the women, children and the elder. Forget the agriculture production of fodder for cattle this year. Drinking water will emerge as the acutest problem for the people in almost entire Rajasthan even the city of lakes Udaipur has been facing the water crisis that it has never experienced before. Intensive exploitation of groundwater bodies for the cultivation of marginal lands is taking a heavy toll on scarce resources of Rajasthan. The farmers have lost their crops for three successive seasons they don't have any stock of food. A Rajasthani farmer speaks about drought in Rajasthan. He says, "We are farmers the government does not help us at all. We have sown crop but there