What is the approach to drought management?
What are the strategies for drought management in India?
The government has adopted a 3–pronged strategy to face droughts:
 (i) providing relief to drought hit population
under scarcity relief programmes, (ii) designing special
area development programme for drought–prone areas and desert areas (DPAP–drought prone area programme and DDP–desert development programme) and (iii) promoting dry farming agriculture as a part of agricultural policy