‘Samvedna Yatra’ | Oct 2015

14 days, 4500+ km, 7 states, 35 districts, hundreds of meetings through “drought-affected” regions of seven states from October 2. The two-week-long yatra, that begins from North Karnataka made its way through 25 districts of Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana. It seeks to understand and highlight the alternative models of dealing with the drought, the group said describing the yatra as an attempt to draw public attention towards a looming “national disaster”. Yogendra Yadav had then written a letter to CMs of various states suggesting solutions to tackle drought.