New Delhi, Aug 11 - The Supreme Court Tuesday expressed its concern over the monsoon failure, threat of drought and further rise in the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, and urged the government to provide succour to people.

'Prices are rising. Pulses' prices too are rising. So are those of other food items of the common man,' observed a bench of Justice Markandey Katju, while evaluating the work done by a technical experts committee formed by the government as per the court order to 'to address the problem of water scarcity through scientific research on war footing'.

While appreciating the work done by the panel, the bench, which also included Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, said: 'We may also mention that at present there seems to be a monsoon failure in the large parts of the country, because of which people are suffering.'

'We request the committee to take measures to alleviate the immediate crisis, which people in large parts of the country are facing,' the bench said.