Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to give food to 2.3 lakh BPL families per month in drought-hit Bundelkhand region.
This comes just few days after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav visited the region to distribute relief material. Akhilesh was in Mahoba, one of the worst-hit districts, to launch the Samajwadi Sukha Rahat Samagri Vitaran Karyakram - where free food packets were given to those categorised as poorest of the poor.
Earlier, he had ordered all district magistrates to begin relief measures and to ensure that no hunger-related deaths take place in the region.
These slew of measures came after CNN-IBN exposed the plight of drought-hit Bundelkhand farmers in a series of hard-hitting reports.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had also asked the Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh governments to submit a report on the deplorable plight of people living in Bundelkhand, covering the two states.
NHRC took suo motu cognisance of CNN-IBN's reports on starvation in the region.
The reports showed how due to consecutive years of scanty rainfall and hailstorms which destroyed crops lives of millions of people in the region were hit. People in many areas were surviving merely on roti and salt and lakhs were migrating to other regions to survive.
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