A 12-year-old girl has hanged herself after being told by her impoverished mother she could not afford one rupee to buy food at school. Sonia Khatun, the innocent girl lived in a village, 200 km north of Kolkata.
"She wanted just one rupee ... but her mother could not give her the money due to poverty," Nakul Chandran Mahato, a government official from Murshidabad district in West Bengal was reported to have said. The girl and her mother were homeless and living under a tarpaulin sheet given by the communist government of West Bengal which also supplied them meagre food rations.
India has witnessed strong economic growth in the past five years aided by its booming software and business process outsourcing industries. But millions of Indians have been untouched by the nation's 14-year-old economic reforms and live in abject poverty.
"She wanted just one rupee ... but her mother could not give her the money due to poverty," Nakul Chandran Mahato, a government official from Murshidabad district in West Bengal was reported to have said. The girl and her mother were homeless and living under a tarpaulin sheet given by the communist government of West Bengal which also supplied them meagre food rations.
India has witnessed strong economic growth in the past five years aided by its booming software and business process outsourcing industries. But millions of Indians have been untouched by the nation's 14-year-old economic reforms and live in abject poverty.
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