Critics: India Unprepared for Monsoons

By GAVIN RABINOWITZ

The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 8, 2007; 4:34 PM

NEW DELHI -- Each year, the monsoon clouds roll across South Asia and killer floods follow.

With this year's flooding especially calamitous in India _ more than a 1,200 people have been killed and millions forced from their homes _ experts are blaming the government for failing to strengthen embankments, build needed dams and come up with evacuation plans.

They point to neighboring Bangladesh, a much poorer country where years of preparations helped reduce the scope of this year's suffering.

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