Sanjaya Jena
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/ 6 September 2006

One million lose homes in India floods

At least one million people have lost their homes to floods in eastern India, but the government’s relief effort is slow and inadequate, voluntary groups said on Wednesday. The flooding, triggered by annual monsoon rains over the past week, has hit an area where 2,3-million people live and damaged thousands of hectares of paddy in the coastal state of Orissa.