Lucknow, May 17 -- |
The writing on the wall of Panchayat Bhawan in Khera village of Banda is clear: Bhookh.
Hunger stalks rural inhabitants of Banda and they have been struggling to get food through government agencies.
Shiv Devi is one of the few women who visit the Panchayat Bhawan every morning to get ration card but returns dejected by noon. "If we are denied food we are set to die of hunger," she said.
The frustration of villagers finds expression on the walls of Panchayat Bhawan where someone scribbled 'Bhookh' (hunger) in red, which has turned blackish due to vagaries of time.
No one knows who the writer is but everyone admitted that the writing was clear on the wall. "If we do not get food, we will die of hunger if not of coro...