VEGOAN –KALASKAR FAMILY SAGA- FATHER-SON-SUICIDE-

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KISHOR TIWARI

VIDARBHA JANANDOLAN SAMIT

VEGOAN –KALASKAR FAMILY SAGA- FATHER-SON-SUICIDE-WIDOWS-DURGA (42) AND NALINI (22) NAILS THE TRUTH OF VIDARBHA AGRARIAN CRISIS-VJAS ACTIVIST-KISHOR TIWARI REPORTS FROM VEGOAN TALUKA MARAGOAN IN YAVATMAL DISTRICT.

VEGOAN-4.30 P.M. DATED-15^TH JULY-2006

WE REACHED THIS VILLAGE AT 12.30 P.M. TO VISIT ONE BABANRAO KALASKAR FAMILY WHO ALONG WITH HIS SON SANJAY COMMITTED SUICIDE.VEGOAN IS ONE TIME RICH VILLAGE OF COTTON GROWERS DOMINATED BY KUNBI-MARATHA POPULATION AND BABANRAO KALASKAR IS ALSO HAILS FROM THE KUNBI FARMING COMMUNITY.

WE WENT TO HOUSE ,IT IS QUITE SILENT ENVIRONMENT IN SIDE THE OLD HOUSE ,ONE LADY COME OUT HARDLY IN HER FORTIES TOLD ME THAT I AM DURGA(42) WIFE BABANRAO KALASKAR THEN I ASKED WHERE IS " SUN BAI "THAN SHE CALLED NILINI ,A VERY YOUNG LADY WHO IS SLEEPING WITH HER 6 MONTH KID COME OUT.(pl see photo)

DURGA TOLD MEET NILINI HER HUSBAND & ELEDEST SON SANJAY COMMITTED SUICIDE ON 12^TH JULY IN THE AFTERNOON AROUND 2 P.M. AS NO ONE WAS IN THE HOUSE AND NILINI WENT TO HER FATHER PLACE 24 K.M.FROM VEGOAN AS SANJAY HAS ASKED HER TO GO.

I ASKED DURGA GIVE BRIEF OF YOUR MARRIAGE AND LIFE AFTER MARRIAGE WITH BABARAO KALASKAR, ONE TIME VERY PROGRESSIVE FARMER OF THE AREA., SHE TOLD ME THAT I GOT MARRIED 28 YEAR BACK AS VERY MINOR GIRL BUT EVERY THING WAS FINE IN LAW’S HOUSE .I GOT THREE SONS SANJAY (NOW NO MORE), VIJAY AND AJAY .SINCE 1990 WHEN FARMING BECAME LOSS MAKING PREPOSITION AND EXPENSES AT HOME INCREASED A LOT BABANRAO FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT SUSTAIN THE PRESSURE. HE WAS ALWAYS UNDER PRESSURE AND SUDDENLY LEFT US IN SHOCK; HE CONSUMED POISON AND COMMITTED SUICIDE.

I THOUGHT MY YOUNG SON SANJAY WHO WAS 27 YEAR OLD WILL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND IT WAS NOT PLANNED AS I WISH, CENTRAL BANK OF INDIA HAS RECENTLY SERVED NOTICE OF RECOVERY OF LAST YEARS CROP LOAN AND MANAGER WAS NOT READY TO WAIT . .(pl see photo)

THIS YEAR WE ARRANGE THE SEEDS FROM LOCAL DEALER NAMED MR.HAZARE AND MANAGED SOWING BUT CONSTANT PRESSURE FROM THE BANK FORCED HIM TO END HIS LIFE, DURGA TOLD US.

WHEN I ASKED NILINI THAT YOU ARE TOO YOUNG (22 YEARS) TO LIVE SUCH LONG LIFE WITHOUT HUSBAND AND YOU HAVE 6 MONTH DAUGHTER, HOW DO YOU LOOK AT YOUR FUTURE! I ASKED

SHE TOLD ME THAT THEIR IS NO LIFE AFTER HUSBAND BUT I WILL LIVE FOR MY DAUGHTER AND FAMILY, MY HUSBAND LEFT US IN BETWEEN I WILL CERTAINLY COME OUT THESE CRISIS .SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE HAS DONE MATRICULATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL OF VILLAGE DHONORI (HER FATHER VILLAGE 32 K.M. AWAY FROM VEGOAN).

I ASKED DID ANY OFFICER VISITED YOUR HOME SINCE 12^TH JULY,THEY TOLD US ONE TALATHI AND TWO PILCEWALA CAME TO US AND ASKED US THAT THEY SHOULD SAY THAT THERE WAS TORTURE FROM THE BANK AND LOCAL ADMINISTRATION IF THEY SAY AGAINST US TO MEDIA THEN THEY NOT RECOOMEND THIS CASE FRO GOVT. AID.,DURGA TOLD ME.I ASKED AS PER GOVT. RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT SHECAN GET JOD IN DRDA OR ICDS AGANWADI,SHE TOLD MAY TO HELP TO TAKE THE CONCERN OFFICER,I PROMISED HER TO DO SO.

NOW BOTH SONS OF DURGA VIJAY AND AJAY ARE SCHOOL GOING AND NILINI HAS SMALL KID TO TAKE FULL TIME CARE THE MAIN PROBLEM WITH FAMILY THAT WE WILL DO THEIR 14 ACRE OF FARMING THAT AHS BEEN LEFT AS IT IS BY HER HUSBAND BABARAO AND SON SANJAY.

I TRIED TO FIND SOLUTION WITH VILLAGERS.(pl see photo)

OF VEGOAN THEY TOLD ME THAT CONDITION TOO TO BAD TO EXPLAIN, EVERYBODY IS LIVING HERE AS THEY ARE NOT KILLING THEMSELVES LIKE BABANRAO AND SANJAY.

OUR PRIME MINISTER DR.MAMMOHAN SINGH WHO TOURED VIDARBHA MAY HAVE HEALING TOUCH TO THESE FAMILIES WHO ARE DISTRESS. HIS RELIEF PACKAGE WOULD BE TOO LATE TO SAVE THEM

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