Bharat Ki Baat: Big question to system who force people to put their lives in danger

Two successive lean monsoon seasons had left nearly 4,000 villages staring at an acute drought in 36 out of 52 districts in the state while the new Congress-led government was cramped by Model Code of Conduct for the Lok Sabha elections.

A report by the Panchayat and Rural Development Department had said 40 rivers that provide water to these villages had gone dry and the micro-watershed management was in complete disarray. Most parts of the state have experienced 20-50 per cent deficient rainfall in two years.

More than 21,293,000 hectares of the rivers' catchment area is parched on the nearly 2,19,0000 km length of these rivers. The department says efforts are continuing to recharge the micro watersheds through the course of these rivers and it has drawn up a plan to raise the groundwater level by recharging the rivers through community participation.