Word: pradesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lack of Concern. Shitala's scourge has been particularly felt in the states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Assam. Yet no where has the goddess lashed harder than in Bihar. With 70,393 reported cases, that state accounts for 60% of the world's current total of known smallpox victims...
...Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, the outlook is hardly brighter. The 300-megawatt Rihand dam has been closed by water shortages; last month, power was cut by 40% throughout the state. Electric steel furnaces until last week were allowed no power at all and had to shut down completely. In the city of Ghaziabad, other industries are allowed power to operate only between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. That move saves power for domestic and office use during the day, but it automatically idles 15% of the factory work force of 70,000, since women are forbidden...
Nearly 65 million voters went to the polls last week to elect new legislatures in five of India's states. The key election was in Uttar Pradesh, whose 425-member state legislature is the largest in the nation. Uttar Pradesh - meaning northern plain - has the biggest population (more than 95 million) of any of the 21 states and the largest delegation (85 of the 524 members) in the lower house of the national Parliament. It also happens to be the home state of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, as it was for India's two previous Prime Ministers. Thus...
...national parliamentary elections, Mrs. Gandhi was at the peak of her popularity, and she and the Congress Party won overwhelmingly in Uttar Pradesh. Though she is still respected there, the state government has been shoddy and corrupt and as feudalistic as the ancient Moslem regimes that were displaced by the British. Indeed, in the past year the state has been beset by a provincial-police mutiny, widespread rioting and looting prompted by food shortages, soaring inflation, power failures, unemployment, vicious black markets and bureaucratic incompetence. As a result, Mrs. Gandhi was reluctantly forced to fire her hand-picked state government...
Inflation is rampant. Retail prices have soared 24% in twelve months. In Uttar Pradesh state, 20,000 policemen struck in May for better wages and conditions, leading to an ugly and bloody clash with the army in which 34 men were killed. Government officials from the highest to the lowest local levels have become unashamedly corrupt. It now takes a bribe to get a child into school, to get a milk card, even to get a long-distance railway ticket, let alone any of the innumerable licenses that India's pullulating bureaucracy demands. One capital resident said last week...