Word: chengala
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...even if most Indians accept that their country's new prosperity must be shared, many remain pessimistic that the poor will benefit from the measures. "We have no reason to believe that the current bureaucratic system can deliver," says P. Chengala Reddy, of the Indian Farmers and Industry Alliance, a farmers' lobby, citing the wastage and corruption that have blighted previous initiatives. Chidambaram's paradox is this: to reach India's poor, he has to rely on a bureaucracy whose inefficiency helped perpetuate the problem of poverty in the first place. The Finance Minister is aware of the challenge...
...course. But India has the power to alleviate its water woes, according to Sumita Dasgupta of the independent, New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment. "India has a lot of water," she says. "Even in drought years, we get enough. We just don't manage it." P. Chengala Reddy of the Indian Farmers and Industry Alliance lobby group goes further: "There is absolutely nil long-term planning." What management there is, says Dasgupta, ignores traditional methods of water storage in dry areas-such as the now disused network of channels and tanks built by the Mughals back...
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