saying it's a better option than to continue suffering because of the lack of food and there's artie's charan singh reports they've asked the government for aid but claim so far little has been done. here in the village of gerard you know remote part of eastern india so intricate mali spends time with his family including his little grandson this may look like one happy picture but the reality is quite the opposite with no food to eat so reigned over twenty other farmers in the small village of about three hundred families have threatened to commit mass suicide a. little mutely we will have to die sometime so why suffer like this every day it's better to die now we're so hopeless that we've come to the conclusion that committing suicide is the best option noone would like to do nearly little food to eat how many days can a person want to live. the region has had an acute drought for two years now this has driven villagers from gerard to write a letter to the president of india and the state governor asking for rations and in a geisha in facilities if help fails to work i they say they'll commit sui

and a grain shortage but in india millions of people are going hungry for a different reason artie's charan singh investigates. india's home to work quarter of the world's starving people and one third of its malnourished children here in the village of down up order in eastern india had nothing to give us four days yes of unlimited hungry child cries all the time there is no food to feed him how can we survive like this to give the child quite a just me to drink water yet the government has recorded mounds of surplus stocks fifty nine million tons of wheat and rice it does have a huge public distribution system that provides free for all families below the poverty line but corruption and complex bureaucracy means the poorest of the poor often don't make it on the list most of us how much we are poor people desperate for food to eat our children go to sleep hungry the names are not on the government's poverty list and we don't get any food going from the government can we do ultimately we will have no choice but to commit suicide. with people starving the recent images of piles of wheat rotting a

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is more difficult than simply changing the law one school is experiencing the struggle as artie's charan singh reports. it's a problem that's been simmering but now slowly davey sees its fast reaching boiling point she's a newly appointed cook in this primary school and john import here to prepare the government funded midday meal but despite sony's best intentions some of the students turn their noses up at many creations because she's a doll it or untouchable in traditional hindu society only upper caste cooks are allowed to go community minos. now and some upper caste children don't want to eat food made by me their parents consider the food polluted by my touch what can i do i'm here to make lunch in the school and treat the children here just like my own kids one hundred twenty million children across india receive a meet every working day in the largest school lunch program in the world but when the education ministry decided to send the it cooks to get schools where the majority of pupils are upper caste hindus many found that hard to swallow. the media a meal can entice poor parents to

their kids to school and instead rely on their daily wage to put food on the table but as artie's charan singh reports it threatens to hold one of the world's fastest growing economies. does not go to school his parents simply cannot afford to send him he is one of the million children in india facing the same predicament even though the government has made education free and compulsory for children under fourteen the family cannot lose the makes as a rag picker all of that second we have no money to teach our children the government doesn't give us a livelihood so the children have to help our family support itself we spend the day trying to get food to eat how can we educate our children. even if money got access to education this is what my greet him not a classroom in sight in rural india government schools often exist only on paper they may be registered but there may be no buildings or teachers. who have no books here the children have no books to write on there are no pencil. you can see the state of the board its third difficulty in this way. this means many who are then school barely

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