SC sets drought-relief deadline

New Delhi:





Holding that over one-fourth of the population reeling under drought cannot be left to fend for themselves, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to put in place a mechanism to handle such crisis and asked it to be “liberal“ in granting funds.A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and N V Ramama directed the Centre to implement the Disaster Management Act in letter and spirit to handle natural calamities and pulled up the Centre for shirking its responsibility in handling the crisis on the ground that it was for the state to declare drought.

Source: Times of India