Exploding Population Failing Rains
Since 1950 India had expanded its farm lands by 35% and its yields per acre by roughly the same percentage by the 1960s. Its total grain production soared ,78% compared with 64% in the industrial nations. Then bad weather started to plague so much of the India’s (and the world's) crop land that many experts conclude that the climate itself is changing. Harsh winters, droughts or typhoons cut output in India (along with other countries). In Southeast Asia (and parts of Africa) the peanut crop providing mainly animal feed and cooking oil fell far below normal.
It is hard to imagine today that there existed a time in independent India when the then Prime Minister of the country, Sw. Lal Bahadur Shastriji had to appeal to the nation to skip one meal a day. Our nation saw one of the darkest era when we faced acute shortage of food in the 60s. Ships from America brought in bad quality grain as charity to feel us and the Nation battled with the problems of rising prices and hunger.
1411. The lower limit of tigers is 1165 and the upper limit is 1657
The formal inauguration ceremony was performed on 16th April 1853, when 14 railway carriages carrying about 400 guests left Bori Bunder at 3.30 pm amidst the loud applause of a vast multitude of people and to the salute of 21 guns.The first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly,a distance of 24 miles, on 15th August, 1854. Thus the first section of the East Indian Railway was opened to public traffic, inaugurating the beginning of railway transport on the Eastern side of the sub-continent.