Central India in grip of worst ever drought
The last five years have been tough on 55-year old Saraswati Devi. Her two sons have left their village to work as construction workers in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh (mp). The family's one hectare patch in Ragauli Bhatpura gram panchayat in Uttar Pradesh's (up) Banda district has been mortgaged. The money barely helps Saraswati tide over a drought that's ravaging Banda and 12 other contiguous district in up and mp for the last five years. Quite ironical because the region