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Hunger takes its toll on Orissa family [1]

Akshaya Kumar Sahoo

Jhintu Bariha and his family members were victims of chronic hunger. A migrant labourer, illiterate Jhintu never availed of the social security measures -- either job at the door step or government supplied food -- until he lost two of his three children.

Publication Date: 
03/03/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Starvation [3], Poverty [4], Orissa (Odisha) [5], Bolangir (D) [6]
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