Agony in Rural India Prompts Modi U-Turn on Policy He Mocked
- Modi under pressure to boost spending in budget for rural jobs
- Administration to increase spending on guaranteed job program
50 years old, Khajju Ahirwar, walks in his 10 acres of barrren fields, in the village Patharkhera,Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, India, on Saturday, February 9, 2016.
Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/BloombergCrouched in the shade beside a mud hut near her parched wheat fields in central India, Harkiya is getting desperate.