[Assam] Starvation death in Assam - AT

[Chan Mahanta]

Tragically, this is just the first report Ram!

MM warned us of what is coming right here. Let us brace ourselves.


c-da






At 9:12 AM -0600 12/1/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>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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