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The countrywide heat wave hits hardest the economically backward Tripura with standing crops worth Rupees 80 crore already damaged irreversibly, and with the spectre of still more formidable damage looming large. The unprecedented dry spell has been raging in the state since November last. While rainfall of 600mm, was recorded in the corresponding period of six months last year, a paltry 175mm. has been recorded this year. Irrigation being out of question, acute scarcity of drinking water is now plaguing even the plains, not to speak of the far worse condition in the hills.

The Left Front government of Tripura has braced up all its resources to meet this unprecedentedly grave challenge from nature. Work is in progress on war footing in all the affected areas in the plains and the hills to provide drinking water, health service and rural employment to the affected people of especially rural areas. The state government has already sent a proposal to the centre seeking financial assistance to the tune of Rs.50 crore. But the outgoing BJP-led government at the centre having already scrapped the National Primary Nutrition Scheme and having sent to the state a few days ago a paltry Rs.4 crore towards flood relief for last year’s flood in Tripura, it is hoping against hope for the left front government to expect central assistance in the state’s unprecedented calamity.