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Along the road that connects Bihar’s Patna and Muzaffarpur, one can lately find groups of women cutting grass.
Why?
Because they do not have enough money to buy fodder for their cattle; in fact, they are struggling to feed their children, let alone the livestock.
The COVID-induced lockdown has disrupted their lives, restricting the working and eligible members of their families to their homes, depleting their sources of income, and putting these women on the streets foraging for fodder.
However, they have received help from the government in the form of monthly aids and quotas.
Just when the aid would have been enough to tide them over through these difficult times, the floods hit Muzaffarpur and destroyed most of what was left.
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