Paani Foundation such as sugarcane are also cultivated in semi-arid regions, exacerbating the problem. In 2015, the state government officially declared that 60% of its villages were facing a "drought-like condition". This means that they reported a crop yield which was less than 50% of the standard yield in the area. In absolute figures, 23,811 of the state's 39,453 villages come in this category. This will result in a drastic fall in the state's agricultural output for the year, officials said. Aamir Khan's TV series Satyamev Jayate, which discussed wide-ranging social issues plaguing India, had originally addressed the issue of water scarcity
Men's rights movement in India Khan's television show, Satyamev Jayate. In December 2012, about 15,000 men pledged to boycott Khan's film "". According to Anil Kumar, co-founder of SIFF, Khan had portrayed men negatively on the show and had projected only one side of the domestic violence issue. In September 2012, Ministry of Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath proposed a bill that would make it mandatory for husbands to pay a salary to their wives. This move was criticised by men's rights groups and they sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention in the matter. Phanisai Bhardwaj, a Lok Satta Party candidate in Karnataka assembly