The Thar District is faced with an extreme drought and the Provincial Government has not yet even issued notification declaring the drought. There has been no rainfall and there has been an acute shortage of ground water in these areas that has led to domestic crop failure, and an outbreak of sheep pox epidemic in small livestock – as a result of the food scarcity. This has forced the population to migrate to other districts and become internally displaced. The provincial government has at present, stocks of over 400,000 bags of wheat rotting in its warehouses held in reserve exclusively for people of the Thar district. However a policy is yet to be evolved with regard to the distribution of this wheat. This is the third consecutive year that the area has suffered from lack of rain and more than 1,000 people have died including 600 children due the scarcity of water.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 07:35:58 +0000
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