Article 1B5AC Indian drought 'affecting 330 million people' after two weak monsoons

Indian drought 'affecting 330 million people' after two weak monsoons

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Agence France-Presse in Delhi
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Government says quarter of the population suffering, as NGO asks supreme court to order Modi government to do more to help

About 330 million people are affected by drought in India, the government has said, as the country reels from severe water shortages and desperately poor farmers suffer crop losses.

A senior government lawyer, PS Narasimha, told the supreme court that a quarter of the country's population, spread across 10 states, had been hit by drought after two consecutive years of weak monsoons.

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