[Assam] Starvation death in Assam - AT

[Ram Sarangapani]

This is really sad news. Is this becoming more common in Assam these days?


Woman dies of malnutrition
By A Staff Reporter
 GUWAHATI, Nov 30 – A woman Tilomoni Saikia (28), died of malnutrition
caused by partial starvation on November 28 at the No 2 Joypukhurigaon under
the Simanta Gaon Panchyat of Gomariguri Development Block in Golaghat
district. Disclosing this, general secretary of the Krishak Mukti Sangram
Samiti, Akhil Gogoi said quoting her neighbours, Tilomoni, wife of Arun Boro
and a mother of three children with the youngest being three months old, was
not having full meals for the past several weeks. She was having only one
meal in a day for quite a long time. Besides, she had to breast feed her
youngest child.

As the family was living in a drought-affected area, its only adult male
member Arun Boro had to leave for Manipur in search of a job.

Similarly, the threat of starvation is looming large on the people of the
villages like Dishalpani, Kadamguri etc. in the area. The farmers of these
villages are now selling out their bullocks and cattle and setting out in
search of jobs as wage earners, said Gogoi, adding, Government relief
materials are yet to reach these villages.
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