Kashipur (Raygada), Sept. 9 :    Kashipur (Raygada), Sept. 9:  For Singari Majhi of Bilamal village, Rs 10,000 is no small amount. But then for Singari, whose husband Sada Majhi fell to the toxic diet of mango kernel and ragi in the second week of August, Rs 10,000 may not actually mean anything. Singari, who had received Rs 20,000 as ex gratia in the wake of 'starvation' deaths in her family, has already spent half of it on feasts for neighbours and other such matters. The rest of the money given by the Orissa government would have been spent as easily if it had not been put in a nearby post office in the name of Singari's granddaughter. The politics of aid is as cold-hearted as the economics of hunger. If economics is keeping bursting grain silos away from the hungry, political expediency to rush cash to those with no knowledge of resource management is defeating the Orissa government's damage-control scramble in Kashipur. Keen to ride out a storm touched off by charges of starvation deaths, the state government doled out the customary 'ex gratia', little realising that the money is going down a black hole of ignorance. The same blind benevolence had spurred the government to hand over Rs 20,000 to Singari following four deaths in the family. Along with her husband Sada, the mango kernel had claimed their sons Suruta Majhi and Pailo Majhi and Pailo's wife, Sulemi. Poorer by Rs 10,000 in less than a month, Singari is not aware of the damage from her profligacy. Her husband, Sada, was as unlettered in the ways money disappears. Before the tragedy, his name figured on the APL (above poverty line) list. Sada and his four brothers had received Rs 80,000 against the four acres acquired by Utkal Alumina for setting up a plant three years ago. Sada, who had a share of Rs 16,000, a princely sum for the tribals here, spent the money in less than a year with no discernible change in the family's standard of living. With four deaths in the family, and very little to eat except a few kilos of rice at home, Singari, like other poor tribals of the region, had not grown any smarter. In Panasguda village, an impoverished Biswanath Majhi has already spent Rs 2,500 in a month from the Rs 10,000 he had received from the government on feasting and drinking. But Biswanath - who lost his wife and mother in the tragedy - says he has spent the money on buying milk for his little son. While these tribals may not have taken any money-lessons from the tragedy, the government is again promising what it cannot deliver. Four days after chief minister Naveen Patnaik said all the six primary health centres in Kashipur would have a doctor each, at least two did not have one. Till Sunday, no doctor had joined the Gorakhpur and Tikri centres. Bhikari Nayak, a tribal farmer of Chanrajodi village under Gorakhpur gram panchayat, said that only a compounder and a peon were manning the health centre. 'My wife had dysentery on Wednesday. I brought her to the health centre, where the compounder gave her some tablets. I was lucky as I went between 9 am and 11 am. Otherwise, it would have been locked,' Nayak said. Health centres are scheduled to stay open between between 10 am and 5 pm.