Saturday, September 30, 2006

FARMERS PACKAGE AN EYE WASH: IT'S ALL TIME HIGH 124 FARMERS SUICIDE IN SEPTEMBER IN VIDABHA:

VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI

REGD. OFFICE: 11, TRISARAN SOCIETY, KHAMLA, NAGPUR - 440 025.
PH. 2282447/457 MOBILE-9422108846.

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REF: - FARMERS SUICIDES VERY-URGENT- PRESS-NOTE DATED- 1ST OCTOBER, 2006

FARMERS PACKAGE AN EYE WASH: IT'S ALL TIME HIGH 124 FARMERS SUICIDE IN SEPTEMBER IN VIDABHA:

PACKAGE RESULT-325 SUICIDES -JULY-99 -AUGUST-111 AND NOW-124 IT'S "HORRIBLE"

"COMPLETE LOAN WAIVER AND COTTON PRICE RS.2700/- PER QUINTAL CAN ONLY STOP THESE SUICIDES"-KISHOR TIWARI

NAGPUR-1ST OCTOBER -2006,

THE RS 16,978 CRORE REHABILITATION PACKAGE APPROVED BY THE UNION CABINET, YESTERDAY TO MITIGATE FARMERS SUICIDES IN FOUR STATES, COVERING 31 DISTRICTS WAS AN EYE-WASH, AS IT’S RESULTS AFTER THREE MONTHS IN VIDARBHA FAILED TO SLOW DOWN SUICIDE SPREE IN SIX DISTRICTS OF VIDARBHA OBSERVED VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI FARM ACTIVIST KISHOR TIWARI.

AS PER PRESS RELEASE ISSUED TODAY AFTER INDIAN PRIME MINISTER DR.MAN MOHAN SINGH VISITED VIDARBHA HE DECLARED THE PACKAGE OF RS.3759 CRORE ON 1ST JULY 2006 MORE THAN 325 FARMERS COMMITTED SUICIDES AS MAIN COMPONENTS OF THAT INTEREST WAIVER AND ALL INDIRECT RELIEF FAILED TO STOP THESE SUICIDES.

KISHOR TIWARI SAID THIS PACKAGE CAN NOT HELP TO CHECK FARMERS' SUICIDES. THEY RECALLED THAT AFTER PRIME MINISTER MAN MOHAN SINGH IN HIS VISIT ANNOUNCED A VIDARBHA PACKAGE IN MAHARASTRA, THREE MONTHS AGO. BUT THAT FAILED TO STOP SUICIDES AND SINCE THEN ALMOST EVERY DAY SUICIDES ARE BEING REPORTED.

THIS PACKAGE IS MARE EYE WASH AS KISHOR TIWARI RECALLED IN RS 16,978 CRORE PACKAGE ALMOST RS 7,000 CRORE WAS LOAN AND THE REMAINING AMOUNT WOULD BE ADJUSTED FROM THE ONGOING SCHEMES. NO SPECIAL FINANCIAL ALLOTMENT WAS MAKE AND NO SPECIAL PROGRAMME WAS ANNOUNCED, TIWARI ADDED..

FARM LEADERS AND FARMERS PRESSURE GROUPS INCLUDING NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR FARMERS CHAIRMAN DR.M.S.SWAMINATHAN MADE SEVERAL SUGGESTIONS, BUT NONE OF SUCH SUGGESTION WAS TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHILE ANNOUNCING THE PACKAGE.

WHILE LACK OF CREDIT FACILITY AND REMUNERATE PRICES WERE FOUND BASIC REASONS TO FARMERS' SUICIDES, THERE IS NO STEP TO RESOLVE THOSE ISSUES WITH THIS PACKAGE.

IN VIDARBHA RS.710 CRORE GIVEN TO BANKERS COULD MANAGE TO GIVE FRESH CREDIT TO ONLY 2LACS ADDITIONAL FARMERS OUT OF 3 MILLION FARMERS EVEN THOUGH MAIN DEMAND WAIVER OF SMALL AND MARGINAL FARMERS CROP LOANS HAS BEEN TILL IGNORED , HEY SAID A MERE WAIVER OF INTEREST MAY NOT HAVE ANY IMPACT. RECALLING THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ARE MEETING ONLY 10 PER CENT OF FARMERS’ CREDIT NEEDS, ONLY LOAN WAIVER CAN INCREASE CREDIT FLOW TO SUICIDE PORN FARMERS..

THE COMPLETE LOAN WAIVER AND RESTORATION OF COTTON PRICE @ RS.2700/- PER QUINTAL IS ONLY SOLUTION TO STOP THESE ON GOING FARMERS SUICIDES IN VIDARBHA BUT ADMINISTRATION HAS DIVERTING ECONOMIC ISSUES OF AGRARIAN CRISIS TO SOCIAL ISSUES AND SPENDING MORE THAN RS.3 MILLION ON SPIRITUAL GURUS PARVACHAN-KRITANS WHO ARE NOT AWARE OF ANY OF RURAL PROBLEMS OF RURAL VIDARBHA.

AS EXISTING PACKAGES SPECIALLY ANNOUNCED FOR 31 DISTRICTS OF INDIA WEST VIDARBHA IN ORDER TO CONTROL THESE ON GOING FARMERS SUICIDES ARE NOT TARGETED TO THE REASONS OF DISTRESS IN THE RURAL AREA OF COTTON GROWING REGION MASS SUICIDES OF FARMERS ARE LIKELY TO BE REPORTED IN NEAR FUTURE AS THERE IS NO ADMINISTRATION TO SEE THESES HELPLESS FARMERS AND THERE COMPLETE CURIOS AND HOSTILE CORRUPTION INCREASING DISTRESS AMONG FARMERS,WARNED KISHOR TIWARI. PLIGHTS OF THE FARMERS ARE KNOWN TO EVERYBODY BUT NOBODY IS KEEN TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS. GOVT SHOULD ANNOUNCE COMPLETE LOAN WAIVER AND COTTON RATE @ RS.2700/- PER QUINTAL IMMEDIATELY AS FIRST STEP TO STOP THESE SUICIDE, KISHOR TIWARI DEMANDED.


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PLEASE ARRANGE TO RELEASE THIS PRESS NOTE
THANKING YOU,
YOURS TRULY,


MOHAN JADHAV

SECRETARY
VIDARBHA JANADOLAN SAMITI
CONTACT-MOBILE-09422108846

Monday, September 25, 2006

REPORTS OF 105 FARMERS SUICIDE IN 25 DAYS OF SEPTEMBER-2006

VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI
REGD. OFFICE: 11, TRISARAN SOCIETY, KHAMLA, NAGPUR - 440 025.
PH. 2282457 MOBILE-9422108846.
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REF: - FARMERS SUICIDES REQUEST LETTER DATED- 26TH SEPTEMBER 2006

TO,
THE HON, BLE PRIME MINISTER,
GOVT.OF INDIA,
NEW DELHI-110011

REF: REPORTS OF 105 FARMERS SUICIDE IN 25 DAYS OF SEPTEMBER-2006 (LIST ENCLOSED) AND MORE THAN 300 FARMERS SUICIDES AFTER YOUR VISIT TO VIDARBHA ON 1ST JULY-2006 TO PROVIDE HEALING TOUCH TO DISTRESS FARMERS FAMILIES.
SUB-REQUEST EXPEDITES RESULT OF ALL RELIEF PACKAGES IN ORDER TO SLOW DOWN ON GOING FARMER’S SUICIDES IN WEST VIDARBHA.
RESPECTED SIR,
1.WHEN SINCE JUNE-2005 TILL SEPTEMBER-2006 IN WEST VIDARBHA 102 FARMERS SUICIDES WERE REPORTED THEN YOU ASKED NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR FARMERS (NCF) TO VISIT VIDARBHA AND DR.M.S.SWAMINATHAN VISITED VIDARBHA ON 25TH OCTOBER-2005 AND ASKED LOCAL ADMINISTRATION TO RESTORE COTTON PRICE RS.2500/- PER QUINTAL AND ARRANGE FRESH CREDIT TO ALL FARMERS IN COTTON GROWING REGION OF VIDARBHA BUT HIS RECOMMENDATION WERE SHOWN DUST BIN BY LOCAL ADMINISTRATION.
2.WHEN FARMERS SUICIDE TOLL REACHED TO 315 ON 9TH DECEMBER 2005. GOVT.OF MAHRASHTRA DECLARE RS.1070 CRORE SPECIAL PACKAGE TO STOP ON GOING FARMER’S SUICIDES BUT BABUS IN LOCAL ADMINISTRATION FAILED TO PROVIDE THE RELIEF AND SUICIDE CONTINUED.
3. THEN AS SUICIDE TOLL CROSSED 430 MARK SINCE JUNE-2005, SPECIAL PANEL OF PLANNING COMMISSION TEAM WAS SENT TO REVIEW WEST VIDARBHA SITUATION ON 23 MARCH-2006 AND SUBMITTED IT’S REPORT BY 12TH JUNE-2006 BUT NO RELIEF AID WAS PROVIDED TO VIDARBHA FARMERS.
4.LASTLY WHEN VIDARBHA FARMERS SUICIDE TOLL CROSSED 600 THEN YOU VISIT TO VIDARBHA FOR HEALING TOUCH TO FARMERS WAS ORGANISED WITH HIGH PROFILE PUBLICITY AND THEN ON 1ST JULY –2006 YOU, ANNOUNCED RS.3750CRORE SPECIAL PACKAGE TO VIDARBHA FARMERS AND YOU PROMISED THAT FRESH FARM CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN TO EVERY COTTON GROWERS OF VIDARBHA. EVERYBODY WELCOME THE PACKAGE NOT THE ACTIVIST AS MAIN DEMANDS OF COTTON FARMERS REGARDING COTTON PRICE RESTORETION AND LOAN WAIVER WAS DROPPED FORM PACKAGE DUE TO STRONG PRESSURE FROM SHRI SHRAD PAWARJI, A STRONG MARATHA MAN AND SON OF SOIL OF MAHARASHTRA MOREOVER THE MONEY AMOUNTING RS.210 CRORE BASICALLY ALLOTTED FOR FOOD GRAIN FARMING PROMOTION PROGRAMME WA SHIFTED TO QUALITY SEED REPLACEMENT PROGARMME.
WE ARE NOT HAPPY TO INFORM YOU SIR THAT AFTER 1ST JULY TILL 31ST AUGUST IN THESE 60 DAYS 201 THAT DAILY 4 FARMERS COMMITTED SUICIDE @ 8 HOURS PER SUICIDE, I CAN UNDER STAND BABUS AT CENTER AND STATE MUST HAVE TAKEN TO RELEASE THE REQUISITE MONEY AND WE WERE TOLD THAT AFTER 1 AUGUST SUICIDE RATE WOULD DROPPED DOWN AS RELIEF AID IS BEING DISTRIBUTED TO DISTRESS FARMERS BUT NOW AFTER 25 DAYS PASSED IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, HERE IS THE LIST OF 105 FARMERS WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE SINCE 1ST SEPTEMBER-2006,
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1 DAMODHAR RAMKRISHNA KUDMETHE 1-SEP-06 BHORGAD KATOL NAGPUR HITVADA
2 RAMESH AJABRAO GHATE 1-SEP-06 GAWA DHAMANGOAN(RLY) AMARAVATI LOKMAT
3 JANARDHA AJABRAO GHATE 1-SEP-06 GAWA DHANMAGOAN-RLY AMARAVATI LOKMAT
4 MAHADEV BABULAL PAWAR 1-SEP-06 SONWADHONA NER YAVATMAL SAKAL
5 KAWADU SHAYRAO BADHARE 2-SEP-06 JODMOHA KALAMB YAVATMAL NAVBHARAT
6 VISHNU KAWADU RATHODE 2-SEP-06 ASOLA TAVATMAL YAVATMAL DESHONATTI
7 DASHRATH SHAYRAO BOTHE 3-SEP-06 ARJUNI MAREGOAN YAVATMAL SAKAL
8 NARAYAN BAJIRAO ZAREKAR 3-SEP-06 ESOLI CHIKHALI BULDHANA LOKMAT
9 SHRIKRISHNNA NANA DAPUDPUR 3-SEP-06 TEKODA ASHITISHAHID WARDHA TARUN BHARAT
10 SHOK APPA PAHURKAR 3-SEP-06 KUMBHARKHEDA SANGRAMPUR BULDHANA DESHONATTI
11 PRAHLAD ZABUJI ZAMARE 3-SEP-06 KHADKI-TAKLI AKOLA AKOLA SAKAL
12 MARUTI PATRU ZUDHARI 3-SEP-06 WADHOLI GONDPIMPRI CHANDRAPUR LOKMAT
13 KISAN GOKUL YALARE 4-SEP-06 MAHDA KELAPUR YAVTMAL LOKMAT
14 BALIRAM RAOJI BHOJANE 4-SEP-06 ASAWAD SANGRAMPUR BULDHANA DESHONATTI
15 JAYRAM BALIRAM UGALE 4-SEP-06 PATUR PATUR AKOLA SAKAL
16 BHAGWAN TULSIRAM CHOUDHARI 5-SEP-06 DANORA NANDGOAN-KH AMARAVATI NAVBHARAT
17 SHALIGRAM MOTIRAM BHALKE 5-SEP-06 WAKANA SANGRAMPUR BULDHANA SAKAL
18 MUKTABAI GUNWANT GAWANDE 5-SEP-06 DHORKANA WASHIM WASHIM DESHONATTI
19 BABAN KONDBAJI 5-SEP-06 KINHKHEDA WASHIM WASHIM DESHONATTI
20 ANKUSH JAGOBA MAHAJAN 6-SEP-06 KHURSAPAR SAMUDRAPUR WARDHA LOKMAT
21 LIMBAJI THUNAJI HEMANE 6-SEP-06 PARSODI SADAKARJUNI GONDIA SAKAL
22 NAGORAO ANNA TIDKE 6-SEP-06 RATAMPUR DARYAPUR AMARAVATI LOKMAT
23 BANDU SURYABHAN UAIKE 6-SEP-08 SULTANPUR SAMUDRAPUR WARDHA SAKAL
24 GOVINDA CHANDU JADHAV 7-SEP-06 GURGOAN YAVATMAL YAVATMAL LOKDOOT
25 KAILASH NANA KATHODE 7-SEP-06 RATANAPUR MEHKAR BULDHANA DESHONATTI
26 SURESH NATHU PAWAR 8-SEP-06 DEVNALA KALAMB YAVATMAL DESHONATTI
27 ASHOK RUPRAO CHOUDHARI 8-SEP-06 BELLORA NANDGOAN(KZ) AMARAVATI SAKAL
28 DHAYNESHAWAR HARI CHAVAN 8-SEP-06 WADAD MAHAGOAN YAVATMAL LOKMAT
29 SANTOSH SHIVRAM CHOUDHARI 8-SEP-06 KASBEGAWAN AJANGOAN-SZ AMARAVATI SAKAL
30 INDU JAGNATH PHOKMARE 8-SEP-06 THAR TELHARA AKOLA DESHONATTI
31 DEVIDAS DEVRAO KADAM 9-SEP-06 MAHAGOAN MAHAGOAN YAVATMAL HITAVADA
32 AMBADAS CHANDRABHAN NIKAM 9-SEP-06 UMRA KHAMGOAN BULDHANA SAKAL
33 PURAN BAPURAO BANSOD 9-SEP-06 VAIGOAN SAMUDRAPUR WARDHA LOKMAT
34 ANKUSH NARAYAN DEWALE 10-SEP-06 NAGARDHARA MALEGOAN WASHIM SAKAL
35 VIJAY NATHU BHAG 10-SEP-06 SANOBAI(KARANJI) RALEGOAN YAVATMAL HITAVADA
36 SUNIL SHRIDHAR GAWANDE 11-SEP-06 MAZARI AKOLA AKOLA DESHONATTI
37 KESHAV SHRIRAM LANDGE 11-SEP-06 VISHNORA MORSHI AMARAVATI SAKAL
38 SAHEBRAO PRABHAKAR INGALE 11-SEP-06 GRAMMOHGAWAN MANGRULPIR WASHIM DESHONATTI
39 VASUDEO SHANKAR BHATE 12-SEP-06 KALMBA BALAPUR AKOLA SAKAL
40 UKANDRAO SHRAVAN BABADE 12-SEP-06 PIMPRI KARANJA(GHATGE) WARDHA LOKMAT
41 NARENDRA VITHAL KATHALKAR 12-SEP-06 BHAMBARDA DARYAPUR AMARAVATI DESHONATII
42 SANJAY WAMANRAO NAWALE 12-SEP-06 GHATBORI MEHKAR BULDHANA DESHONATTI
43 SANTOSH VITHAL DHOTE 12-SEP-06 PANCHGAWAN BHABULGOAN YAVATMAL HITAVADA
44 KHUSHAL BHANUDAS THAKARE 13-SEP-06 DANODA KALAMB YAVATMAL SAKAL
45 BABARAO RAJARAM MUNDALE 13-SEP-06 KAMTHA MURTIZAPUR AKOLA DESHONATTI
46 SUBHASH GANGARAM AGARE 13-SEP-06 PIMPRI DEVULGOANRAJA BULDHANA SAKAL
47 RAVINDRA DASHRATH KADAM 14-SEP-06 DANODA KALAMB YAVTMAL LOKMAT
48 SURESH BHIMRAO KALBHANDHE 14-SEP-06 NANDRAKOLI BUKDHANA BULDHANA DESHONATTI
49 UTTAM HARI RATHODE 14-SEP-06 PANCHALA MANORA WASHIM SAKAL
50 RAMLU BAPU KEMEKAR 14-SEP-06 WATHOLI ZARI YAVATMAL LOKMAT
51 SUNIL NAMDEV SONURLE 14-SEP-06 MANGI GHATANJI YAVATMAL SAKAL
52 GAJANAN GILAB JANE 14-SEP-06 PIMPALHKUTA MORSHI AMARAVATI LOKMAT
53 CHAMPAT BELKUJI MANDARE 15-SEP-06 ASTA RALEGOAN YAVATMAL DESHONATTI
54 BABULAL KANIRAM RATHODE 15-SEP-06 BRAMHANWADA ARNI YAVATMAL SAKAL
55 VIJAY AMRUT KOKADE 15-SEP-06 PIMPALKHEDA BABHULGOAN YAVATMAL LOKMAT
56 BHIMRAO BHAGAT 15-SEP-06 GRAM DOHARA WASHIM WASHIM SAKAL
57 ASHOK BOBAJI GAWALI 15-SEP-06 DONGRUL BULDHANA BULDHANA HITAVADA
58 SURESH SARDAR CHAVAN 15-SEP-06 MARAGOAN-SON KELAPUR YAVATMAL DESHONATTI
59 ASHOK KONDABA MADAVI 16-SEP-06 KURLI KELAPUR YAVATMAL DESHONATTI
60 RAMESH SUBHASH RAUT 16-SEP-06 CHIKHALI(RAMNATH) DARWAHA YAVATMAL LOKMAT
61 SHANTA SHIV KHORGADE 16-SEP-06 GADEGOAN WARUD AMARAVATI SAKAL
62 DHANRAJ SANTOSH LUNGE 16-SEP-06 UDARKHED AMARAVATI AMARAVATI LOKMAT
63 GAJANAN SATTU RAUT 16-SEP-06 WAGARA-TAKLI GHATANJI YAVATMAL SAKAL
64 BALIRAM BABAU DEVARE 17-SEP-06 PIMPALGOAN MAHAGOAN YAVATMAL DESHONATTI
65 MITHULALA BADHULALA PRAJAPATI 17-SEP-06 WAPTI MANORA YAVATMAL LOKMAT
66 VINOD DHYANESHWAR DANE 17-SEP-06 KHIRODA SANGRAMPUR WARDHA LOKMAT
67 LILADHAR RAMKRISHNA DHOTE 18-SEP-06 PALORA PARSHIVANI NAGPUR SAKAL
68 RANKHRISHAN BAPU CHOUKHAT 18-SEP-06 SAHADANPUR KARAJA-LAD WASHIM LOKMAT
69 SYDHAKAR SAKHARAM SHINGANE 18-SEP-06 DEVULGOANRAJA BULDHANA BULDHANA DESHONATTI
70 ANNA RAOJI KANNAKE 18-SEP-O6 ZARI(MURZI) LAKHANDUR BHANDARA SAKAL
71 VIKAS VASUDEV DHABHADE 18-SEP-O6 NULANGA AKOLA AKOLA DESHONATTI
72 PRITAM VITHAL GAHLOT 19-SEP--06 GINJKHEDA DEVLI WARDHA SAKAL
73 KAODU SADASHIV UMREDKAR 19-SEP-06 MOHGOAN HINGANA NAGPUR SAKAL
74 JANRAO BHIMRAOMORADE 19-SEP-06 PALSI ASHTI SANGRAMPUR BULDHANA LOKMAT
75 ASHOK UTTAMRAO WANKHEDE 20-SEP-06 CHISTUR ASHTI WARDHA SAKAL
76 SUNIL DEVRAO RATHODE 20-SEP-06 PANJARA KARABJA(GHADGE) WARDHA LOKMAT
77 JAIBHARAT ZINGRU PADMAL 20-SEP-06 TUKUM NAGBHID CHANDRAPUR SAKAL
78 GULAB BALCHANCHAND CHAVAN 20-SEP-06 DHAPAPHAL BULDHANA BULDHANA DESHONATTI
79 TANABAI RAMRAO RANE 20-SEP-06 HARANI NANADGOAN(KHZ) AMARAVATI SAKAL
80 SANTOSH VITHAL BODKE 21-SEP-06 THODAP RISOD WASHIM SAKAL
81 PRAKASH RAMA SIDAM 21-SEP-06 KOPRAWAN GHATANJI YAVATMAL SAKAL
82 LATA RAMESH CHOUKHANDE 21-SEP-06 KOHLIKHED-JAHAGOR AKOLA AKOLA DESHONATTI
83 SARANGDHAR DHAYUDEV DHAKANE 23-SEP-06 YERADI NANDURA BULDHANA SAKAL
84 RAMESH SHAYMJI SOMKUWAR 23-SEP-06 SHELGOAN KARANJA GHATAGE WARDHA DESHONATTI
85 BHASKAR WAYLAJI PANDE 23-SEP-06 GANESHPUR KARANJALAD WASHIM LOKAMT
86 RAJESH NARAYAN DHABEKAR 23-SEP-06 PALSOBADE MURTIJAPUR AKOLA DESHONATTI
87 HIMATRAO GULABRAO RAYT 23-SEP-06 FATEPUR TIWASA AMARAVATI NAVBHARAT
88 BABAN RAMANA RATHODE 23-SEP-06 DONGUR-SHIVALI BULDHANA BULDHANA SAKAL
89 GAJANAN PANDHARI PATIL 23-SEP-06 KELWAD CHIKALLI BULDHANA LOKMAT
90 AVINASH APPAJI WAVKHEDE 23-SEP-06 KANKATI SAMUDRAPUR AMARAVATI SAKAL
91 PRAKASH RANGRAO NILGIRWAR 23-SEP-06 RUDHA KELAPUR YAVATMAL DESHONATTI
92 ISTARI VITHOBA KALASKAR 23-SEP-06 JARUR GHATANJI YAVATMAL SAKAL
93 MADHUKAR FATKARUJI KARLUKE 23-SEP-06 TALANG-TAKLI KELAPUR YAVATMAL LOKMAT
94 WAMAN SHIVRAM KUTE 24-SEP-06 PANJARI WASHIM WASHIM DESHONATII
95 VITHAL DAMODHAR AKORIKAR 24-SEP-06 RAVERI RALEGOAN YAVATMAL SAKAL
96 ANANDA KANIRAMRATHODE 24-SEP-06 KANADI MURTIZAPUR AKOLA LOKMAT
97 PRABHU RAMCHNADRA AWARI 24-SEP-06 PARSODA WANI YAVTMAL DESHONATTI
98 TULSIRAM GANPAT JIRATKAR 24-SEP-06 BHANDARAT AJANGOAN AMARAVATI SAKAL
99 RAJENDRAGAJANAN SOWALIKAR 24-SEP-06 SELSURA WARDHA WARDHA LOKMAT
100 RAMDAS BHAUJI RAHATE 25-SEP-06 PATURDA SANGRAMPUR BULDHANA DESHONATTI
101 BHAGABAI SHYAMRAO GORADE 25-SEP-06 JANUNA BULDHANA BULDHANA DESHONATTI
102 BHAGVAN PANDURANG TAMER 25-SEP-06 GOLHAR MOHTALA BULDHANA DESHONATTI
103 SANDEP GANBA LASANE 25-SEP-06 KOTHA BHABULGOAN YAVATMAL LOKMAT
104 RAMESH NANA BURSHETIWAR 25-SEP-06 TAKLI KELAPUR YAVATMAL LOKMAT
105 MANIK KRISHNNA JAGTAP 25-SEP-06 PIMPALGOAN DEOLI WARDHA SAKAL


NOW IN NAINITAL THE MEDIA REPORT THAT, YOU HAVE TOLD THAT RESULT OF PACKAGE WILL BE SEEN AFTER SOME TIME IT’S REALLY SHOCKING AS APATHY AND HOSTILE FUNCTIONING OF ALL RELIEF MACHINERIES THAT THEY ARE NOT PROVIDING REQUISITE RELIEF TO THE DISTRESS FARMERS
1.CROP LOAN
IT WAS DECIDED THAT OUT OF 3 MILLION COTTON GROWERS FRESH CREDIT WILL GIVEN TO 1.4 MILLION FARMERS BUT TILL DATE BANKERS COULD MANAGE TO GIVE FRESH CREDIT ADDITIONAL 2.4 LACS FARMER THAT’S TOTAL 6.8 LACS FARMERS AND BANKERS HAVE ACHIEVED ONLY 40% TARGET GIVEN TO THEM TILL DATE.
NONE THE SMALL AND MARGINAL FARMERS WHO ARE DEBT TRAP HAVE SELECTED FOR RELIEF AID, LIST OF THE FARMERS TO GIVE RELIEF UNDER SCHEMES HAVE SELECTED BY LOCAL POLITICIANS AND CORRUPT OFFICER TO BENEFIT POLITICAL WORKERS
MAIN ISSUES ARE TILL IGNORED
VJAS URGED INDIAN PRIME MINISTER THAT SUICIDE PORN FARMERS DON’T NEED ANY PACKAGES THEY POLICY CHANGES IN AGRI. SECTOR; THEY NEED COMPLETE PROTECTION TO THEIR CASH CROP.
TOLL CLAIMS OF REDUCTION IN INTEREST RATE BY 1 OR 2 % IS NOT GOING TO REMOVE THE DISTRESS IN THE VIDARBHA FARMERS BECAUSE AS ON TODAY ONLY CHANGE 7% OF TOTAL 3 MILLION FARMERS AFTER RS.710 INTEREST WAIVER HAVE GIVEN FRESH FARM CREDIT AND REMAINING 93% FARMERS ARE IN DEBT-TRAP OF PRIVATE MONEY LENDERS. THE ISSUE OF PRICE OF COTTON RESTORATION HAS NOT BEING DISCUSSED, AND THEN IT’S MOCKERY TO TACKLE THE VIDARBHA AGRARIAN CRISIS, KISHOR TIWARI ADDED.
YOUR ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO LOOK INTO THE MATTER IN ORDER TO STOP THESE ON GOING SUICIDES IN VIDARBHA.
PLEASE ARRANGE TO PUBLISH THIS PRESS NOTE
KISHOR TIWARI
PRESIDENT
VIDARBH JANANDOALAN SAMITI
CONTACT-09422198846

now 100 farmers suicides in september too after it's 111 in august -vidarbha farmers suicides terror at it's peak once again

now 100 farmers suicides in september too after it's 111 in august -vidarbha farmers suicides terror at it's peak once again

VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI

REGD. OFFICE: 11, TRISARAN SOCIETY, KHAMLA, NAGPUR - 440 025.
PH. 2282457 MOBILE-9422108846.

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REF: - FARMERS SUICIDES PRESS-NOTE DATED- 25TH SEPTEMBER 2006

17 FARMERS SUICIDES REPORTED DURING C.M. NAINITAL MEET EXPOSES MAHARASHTRA CHIEF MINISTER CLAIMS THAT FARMERS SUICIDES IN VIDARBHA ARE SLOWING DOWN

NAGPUR-25TH-SEPTEMBER 23, 2006

WHEN HON, BLE CHIEF MINISTER OF MAHARASHTRA WAS CLAIMING IN CONGRESS C.M. MEET THAT RELIEF PACKAGE ARE SHOWING THE RESULTS AND SUICIDES RATE HAS BEEN SLOW DAWN, 17 DEBT AND FOOD STARVED VIDARBHA FARMERS WERE KILLING THEMSELVES MAKING CHIEF MINISTER TOLL CLAIMS MORE RIDICULOUS THAT IT'S HIGHLY HOSTILE ATTITUDE TO TACKLE THIS ISSUE, TIME HAS COME REMOVE MAHARASHTRA AS HE HAS LOST MORALE AND WILL BOTH TO PROVIDE THE RELIEF TO VIDARBHA FARMERS, KISHOR TIWARI OF VIDARBHA JAN ANODOLAN SAMITI DEMANDED.

17 FARMERS WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE ON 23RD and 24th SEPTEMBER AS REPORTED BY LOCAL MEDIA IDENTIFIED AS

1

sarangdhar dhayudev dhakane

23-Sep-06

yeradi

nandura

buldhana

sakal


2

ramesh shaymji somkuwar

23-Sep-06

shelgoan

karanja ghatage

wardha

deshonatti


3

bhaskar waylaji pande

23-Sep-06

ganeshpur

karanjalad

washim

lokamt


4

rajesh narayan dhabekar

23-Sep-06

palsobade

murtijapur

akola

deshonatti


5

himatrao gulabrao rayt

23-Sep-06

fatepur

tiwasa

amaravati

navbharat


6

baban ramana rathode

23-Sep-06

dongur-shivali

buldhana

buldhana

sakal


7

gajanan pandhari patil

23-Sep-06

kelwad

chikalli

buldhana

lokmat


8

avinash appaji wavkhede

23-Sep-06

kankati

samudrapur

amaravati

sakal


9

prakash rangrao nilgirwar

23-Sep-06

rudha

kelapur

yavatmal

deshonatti


10

istari vithoba kalaskar

23-Sep-06

jarur

ghatanji

yavatmal

sakal


11

madhukar fatkaruji karluke

23-Sep-06

talang-takli

kelapur

yavatmal

lokmat


12

waman shivram kute

24-Sep-06

panjari

washim

washim

deshonatii


13

vithal damodhar akorikar

24-Sep-06

raveri

ralegoan

yavatmal

sakal


14

ananda kaniramrathode

24-Sep-06

kanadi

murtizapur

akola

lokmat


15

prabhu ramchnadra awari

24-Sep-06

parsoda

wani

yavtmal

deshonatti


16

tulsiram ganpat jiratkar

24-Sep-06

bhandarat

ajangoan

amaravati

sakal


17

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ACCIDENTALLY SUICIDES IN VIDARBHA SINCE JUNE 2006 HAS REACHED 908 MARK ACCORDING TO SUICIDE REGISTER OF VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI BUT FARMERS SUICIDES NUMBER ON MAHARASHTRA GOVT.'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE IS MUCH MORE THAN VJAS SUICIDE FIGURE AS SINCE JAN,2006 IN SIX DISTRICTS OF VIDARBHA MORETHAN 960 SUICIDES HAVE RECORDED BY ADMINISTRATION WHICH IS MUCHMORE SHOCKING, INFORMED KISHOR TIWARI OF VJAS IN PRES RELEASE TODAY.

MAIN ISSUES ARE TILL IGNORED

VJAS URGED INDIAN PRIME MINISTER THAT SUICIDE PORN FARMERS DON'T NEED ANY PACKAGES THEY POLICY CHANGES IN AGRI. SECTOR ,THEY NEED COMPLETE PROTECTION TO THEIR CASH CROP.

TOLL CLAIMS OF REDUCTION IN INTEREST RATE BY 1 OR 2 % IS NOT GOING TO REMOVE THE DISTRESS IN THE VIDARBHA FARMERS BECAUSE AS ON TODAY ONLY CHANGE 7% OF TOTAL 3 MILLION FARMERS AFTER RS.710 INTEREST WAIVER HAVE GIVEN FRESH FARM CREDIT AND REMAINING 93% FARMERS ARE IN DEBT-TRAP OF PRIVATE MONEY LENDERS. THE ISSUE OF PRICE OF COTTON RESTORATION HAS NOT BEING DISCUSSED ,THEN IT'S MOCKERY TO TACKLE THE VIDARBHA AGRARIAN CRISIS, KISHOR TIWARI ADDED.

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Saturday, September 23, 2006

When death comes first in vidarbha farm sector

DNA REPORTS TODAY


When death comes first

Jaideep Hardikar
Saturday, September 23, 2006 22:32 IST

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1054812

VEGAON/YAVATMAL: Vegaon is straight out a postcard. But beneath its picturesque face, lies several dark tales. Durgabai and Nalini lost their husbands in a little over one year. Now, the two women mourn the loss of a father and a son. When Nalini's husband Sanjay Kalaskar killed himself, it was the 26th suicide in Vegaon.

"He'd run out of patience," says Nalini of Sanjay, who took his life barely eleven days after the announcement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special package for Vidarbha's six most-affected districts. Singh had announced the package on July 1, 2006. In April last, it was Sanjay's father Babanrao who was staring at the crisis. This time, it was his son. "Sanjay had inherited loans with the land," say Durgabai, Sanjay's mother and Nalini's mother-in-law.

A sense of anger now compounds the shock of the suicides. "Sanjay would have been alive had the bank officials not waited for the notification of the PM's special package to formally come," says Vijay, his younger brother. The Kalaskars were informed of the benefits to them on August 1, when the notification came from New Delhi.

"This time they came home to deliver the loan," says Vijay. "What do I do with it, having lost both my father and brother?" he wonders. The bank did not ease any burden on Sanjay after his father took his life. Sanjay's total loan liability with the Central Bank of Maregaon rose to Rs 110,000, besides outstanding bills of local inputs dealer and electricity dues. "We could not repay a single rupee last year after my father's death," says Vijay. Babanrao had suffered huge losses in 2005 on his 17-acre land, half of which is for irrigation. "When the bank refused fresh credit, we borrowed from acquaintances (read moneylenders)," says Vijay. Sanjay thought he would repay the money once he got credit from the bank.

His hopes crashed when the officials declined his persistent pleas saying they had not received any government notification. "We were not in a position to buy fertilisers or pesticides that were crucial in this period," he says. Not far away, in Mendholi village of adjoining Wardha district, Shankar Thool, 45, and his son Sandeep, 21, ended their lives a few days ago. Across Vidarbha, as banks and babus deny loans to the desperate farmers, days after sowing operations ended and when the spraying season has just begun, farmers are killing themselves, ending days of desperation. On last count, the figure had crossed 903 since June 2, 2006.

Ironically, the day the Union Cabinet approved the PM' package on July 27, two farmers ―Rambhau Thakre, 45, and Vasant Mohite, 40 ― committed suicide in Mohi village of Wardha district. "We are confused. Whom should we believe in? The finance minister says action will be taken within 48 hours against officials who do not release the credit, and the babus say they have no notification," says 60-year-old Tatyaji Panghate at Ghonsa in Zari Jamni block of Yavatmal.

"This is my 15th trip to the bank, but he says I am not eligible for loan. He isn't telling me why? I've documents ready and no past dues," says Natthu Dave, a five-acre farmer from Borda village, waiting outside the Indian Bank branch in Ghonsa. Tens of farmers queue up for loans in this bank and the branch of the district central cooperative bank next door.

Says activist Suresh Bolenwar: "Banks are still not giving credit to farmers and if they do, the sanctioned amount is insufficient. And farmers then borrow from private sources to bridge the gap, which reduces our returns due to huge interest component." A bank official in Pandharkawda says: "It's true we are actually under-financing the farmers. So while the number of those getting loans has increased, the actual disbursement of money is far from sufficient."

For instance, in Jhamkola village, Santosh Kohare should get Rs100,000 in credit going by his land size―25-acres. "But no bank here is dealing with fresh cases," says Bolenwar. "He won't get more than Rs15,000 if his case is approved for loan owing to pressure." Adds Santosh: "I've borrowed from private sources at 60 per cent interest rate." His loss at the end of the year on his returns would be Rs100,000.

Admits Suresh Ninawe, Indian Bank branch manager at Ghonsa: "We've to follow the credit limits as per the orders from higher ups." Ninawe says his branch has disbursed over Rs 1 crore in credit to farmers this year, up from Rs70 lakh last year. "The demand is much more," he says.

Rain-fed cotton farmers can get credit up to Rs10,500 per Ha, but they seldom get that much here. "Because cotton farming is not viable," says K G Nagpure, manager of central cooperative bank at Ghonsa. "Compare that with western Maharashtra. A farmer with 25 acres of land will easily get a minimum Rs300,000 loan as it is viable." A number of factors have hit the viability factor here: crashing cotton prices, rising imports and falling farm incomes. A new factor this season is adding to the woes ― an unprecedented epidemic of Chikun Gunya in the countryside. Villages after villages are clamouring for medical aid. "Farmers simply can't afford it," says Vilas Raut in Wadki,a few km from Vegaon. "They are selling their land and gold to buy healthcare."

The PM's special package is not working. "Over 302 farmers have committed suicide in Vidarbha after the PM's visit," says Kishor Tiwari of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti.

July saw over 90 farmers commit suicide, and August, over a hundred ―that's a ten-year record high. "This was expected," adds Tiwari, "Because the PM's package fails to capture the problems of farmers on the ground. Now we hear the CM has no idea of dealing with the crisis. What else do the farmers do?"

Friday, September 22, 2006

VIDARBHA REPORTS 300 TH VICTIMS OF AGRARIAN CRISIS AFTER PRIME MINISTER PACKAGE

VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI

REGD. OFFICE: 11, TRISARAN SOCIETY, KHAMLA, NAGPUR - 440 025.
PH. 2282457 MOBILE-9422108846 kishortiwari@yahoo.com.

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REF: - FARMERS SUICIDES PRESS-NOTE DATED- 23RD SEPTEMBER 2006

VIDARBHA REPORTS 300 TH VICTIMS OF AGRARIAN CRISIS AFTER PRIME MINISTER PACKAGE : FAILED TO BOOST MORALE OF DEBT AND FOOD STARVED FARMERS NOW ADMINISTRATION IS GIVING "ART OF LIVING" CLASSES TO CORRUPT OFFICERS- VJAS ASKED ART OF LIVING GURUS TO STOP GOVT. FUNDED TAMAHSA.

NAGPUR-23RD-SEPTEMBER 23, 2006



ANOTHER DEBT AND FOOD STARVED YOUNG COTTON FARMER PRABHAKAR RANGRAO NILGILWAR (32) OF THE BOARDER VILLAGE RUDHA IN KELAPUR TALUKA OF YAVATMAL DISTT. COMMITTED SUICIDES TODAY BECOME 300TH VICTIMS OF ON GOING VIDARBH AGRARIAN AFTER 1ST JULY-2006 ON WHICH INDIAN PRIME MINISTER HAS ANNOUNCED RS.3750 CRORE PACKAGE TO STOP FARMER'S SUICIDES BUT FAILED TO SLOW DOWN.

IN THIS MONTH SEPTEMBER –99

LAST AUGUST- 111

LAST JULY-90
TOTAL-300



ACCIDENTALLY THIS IS 902ND SUICIDES IN VIDARBHA SINCE JUNE 2006 ACCORDING TO SUICIDE REGISTER OF VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI BUT FARMERS SUICIDES NUMBER ON MAHARASHTRA GOVT.'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE IS MUCH MORE THAN VJAS SUICIDE FIGURE AS SINCE JAN,2006 IN SIX DISTRICTS OF VIDARBHA MORETHAN 950 SUICIDES HAVE RECORDED BY ADMINISTRATION WHICH IS MUCHMORE SHOCKING, INFORMED KISHOR TIWARI OF VJAS IN PRES RELEASE TODAY.

TO DIVERT MEDIA ATTENTION FROM MAIN ECONOMIC ISSUES LOCAL ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN TRYING TO RELIGIOUS LEADERS FOR REMOVING DISTRESS PREVAILING IN THE FARMER'S .INITIALLY INDORE BASE "BHAYUJI MAHARAJ" HIGH PROFILE YATRA WAS ORGANISED IN THE MAY AFTER THAT RS. 3MILLION HIGHLY PUBLICISED GOVT. FUNDED "ART OF LIVING" TRAINING PROGRAMME STARTED IN LAST MONTH BUT SUICIDE RATE TRIGGER MORE IN THIS PERIOD AND MORE THAN 200 FARMERS COMMITTED SUICIDES WHILE RELIGIOUS LEADER WERE REMOVING DISTRESS AMONG THE DEBT BURDEN FARMERS. HAVING FAILED TO BOOST MORALE OF STARVED FARMERS NOW ADMINISTRATION HAS SHIFTED IT FOCUS TO GIVE RELIGIOUS TRAINING IT'S CORRUPT OFFICER WHO ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE SUICIDES ,KISHORTIWARI ALLIGED.

BLOCKING OF RELIEF AID AND APATHY OF STATE IS ADDING THE SUICIDES DAY BY DAY,AS RELIEF PACKAGE HAS NOT BEEN TARGETED TO BASIC ISSUE OF AGRARIAN CRISIS WHICH ARE COTTON PRICE RESTORETION ,LOAN WAIVER AND REVAIVING THE SECONDARY SUPPORT SYSTEM LIKE HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION ,EMPLOYMENT AND CREDITABLE GOVERNANCE, KISHOR TIWARI ADDED.

NOW WE HAVE BEEN FED UP BY DAILY ADDING THE PLIGHTS WIDOWS OF FARMERS IN VIDARBHA AS NEITHER MEDIA NOR ADMINISTRATION TAKES IT SERIOUSLY ,SAYS KISHOR TIWARI.

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Monday, September 18, 2006

the new york times reports vidarbha farmers suicides-On India's Despairing Farms, a Plague of Suicides

the new york times reports vidarbha farmers suicides-On India's Despairing Farms, a Plague of Suicid
New York Times
reports vidarbha farmers suicides

On India's Despairing Farms, a Plague of Suicide



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/world/asia/19india.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=5959d928e10250fb&hp=&ex=
1158638400&oref=slogin&partner=homepage&pagewanted=all





By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Published: September 19, 2006

BHADUMARI, India ― Here in the center of India, on a gray Wednesday morning, a cotton farmer swallowed a bottle of pesticide and fell dead at the threshold of his small mud house.

The farmer, Anil Kondba Shende, 31, left behind a wife and two small sons, debts that his family knew about only vaguely and a soggy, ruined 3.5-acre patch of cotton plants that had been his only source of income.

Whether it was debt, shame or some other privation that drove Mr. Shende to kill himself rests with him alone. But his death was by no means an isolated one, and in it lay an alarming reminder of the crisis facing the Indian farmer.

Across the country in desperate pockets like this one, 17,107 farmers committed suicide in 2003, the most recent year for which government figures are available. Anecdotal reports suggest that the high rates are continuing.

Though the crisis has been building for years, it presents an increasingly thorny political challenge for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. High suicide rates and rural despair helped topple the previous government two years ago and put Mr. Singh in power.

Changes brought on by 15 years of economic reforms have opened Indian farmers to global competition and given them access to expensive and promising biotechnology, but not necessarily opened the way to higher prices, bank loans, irrigation or insurance against pests and rain.

Mr. Singh's government, which has otherwise emerged as a strong ally of America, has become one of the loudest critics in the developing world of Washington's $18 billion a year in subsidies to its own farmers, which have helped drive down the price of cotton for farmers like Mr. Shende.

At the same time, frustration is building in India with American multinational companies peddling costly, genetically modified seeds. They have made deep inroads in rural India ― a vast and alluring market ― bringing new opportunities but also new risks as Indian farmers pile up debt.

In this central Indian cotton-growing area, known as Vidarbha, the unofficial death toll from suicides, compiled by a local advocacy group and impossible to verify, was 767 in a 14-month period that ended in late August.

"The suicides are an extreme manifestation of some deep-seated problems which are now plaguing our agriculture," said M. S. Swaminathan, the geneticist who was the scientific leader of India's Green Revolution 40 years ago and is now chairman of the National Commission on Farmers. "They are climatic. They are economic. They are social."

India's economy may be soaring, but agriculture remains its Achilles' heel, the source of livelihood for hundreds of millions of people but a fraction of the nation's total economy and a symbol of its abiding difficulties.

In what some see as an ominous trend, food production, once India's great pride, has failed to keep pace with the nation's population growth in the last decade.

The cries of Indian farmers ― or what Prime Minister Singh recently described as their "acute distress" ― can hardly be neglected by the leaders of a country where two-thirds of people still live in the countryside.

Mr. Singh's government has responded to the current crisis by promptly expanding rural credit and promising investments in rural infrastructure. It has also offered several quick fixes, including a $156 million package to rescue "suicide prone" districts across the country and a promise to expand rural credit, waive interest on existing bank loans and curb usurious informal moneylenders.

But pressure is building to do more. Many, including Mr. Swaminathan, the agricultural scientist, would like to see the government help farmers survive during crop failures or years of low world prices.

Subsidies, once a linchpin of Indian economic policy, have dried up for virtually everyone but the producers of staple food grains. Indian farmers now must compete or go under. To compete, many have turned to high-cost seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, which now line the shelves of even the tiniest village shops.

Monsanto, for instance, invented the genetically modified seeds that Mr. Shende planted, known as Bt cotton, which are resistant to bollworm infestation, the cotton farmer's prime enemy. It says the seeds can reduce the use of pesticides by 25 percent.

The company has more than doubled its sales of Bt cotton here in the last year, but the expansion has been contentious. This year, a legal challenge from the government of the state of Andhra Pradesh forced Monsanto to slash the royalty it collected from the sale of its patented seeds in India. The company has appealed to the Indian Supreme Court.

The modified seeds can cost nearly twice as much as ordinary ones, and they have nudged many farmers toward taking on ever larger loans, often from moneylenders charging exorbitant interest rates.

Virtually every cotton farmer in these parts, for instance, needs the assistance of someone like Chandrakant Agarwal, a veteran moneylender who charges 5 percent interest a month.

He collects his dues at harvest time, but exacts an extra premium, compelling farmers to sell their cotton to him at a price lower than it fetches on the market, pocketing the profit.

His collateral policy is nothing if not inventive. The borrower signs a blank official document that gives Mr. Agarwal the right to collect the farmer's property at any time.

Business has boomed with the arrival of high-cost seeds and pesticides. "Many moneylenders have made a whole lot of money," Mr. Agarwal said. "Farmers, many of them, are ruined."

Indeed, one or two crop failures, an unexpected health expense or the marriage of a daughter have become that much more perilous in a livelihood where the risks are already high.

A government survey released last year found that 40 percent of farmers said they would abandon agriculture if they could. The study also found that farming represented less than half the income of farmer households.

Barely 4 percent of all farmers insure their crops. Nearly 60 percent of Indian agriculture still depends entirely on the rains, as in Mr. Shende's case.

This year, waiting for a tardy monsoon, Mr. Shende sowed his fields three times with the genetically modified seeds made by Monsanto. Two batches of seed went to waste because the monsoon was late. When the rains finally arrived, they came down so hard that they flooded Mr. Shende's low-lying field and destroyed his third and final batch.

Mr. Shende shouldered at least four debts at the time of his death: one from a bank, two procured on his behalf by his sisters and one from a local moneylender. The night before his suicide, he borrowed one last time. From a fellow villager, he took the equivalent of $9, roughly the cost of a one-liter bottle of pesticide, which he used to take his life.

Those like him with small holdings are particularly vulnerable. A study by Srijit Mishra, a professor at the Mumbai-based Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, found that more than half of the suicides in this part of the country were among farmers with less than five acres of land.

But even those who are prosperous by local standards are not immune. Manoj Chandurkar, 36, has 72 acres of cotton with genetically modified seeds and sorghum in a neighboring village called Waifad. Every year is a gamble, he said.

Each time, he takes out a loan, then another and then prays that the bollworms will stay away and the rains will be good. On his shoulders today sit three loans, bringing his total debt to $10,000, a vast sum here.

The study by Mr. Mishra found that 86.5 percent of farmers who took their own lives were indebted ― their average debt was about $835 ― and 40 percent had suffered a crop failure.

The news of Mr. Shende's death brought his wife, Vandana, back home to Bhadumari. Relatives said she had gone to tend to her sick brother in a nearby village. By the time she arrived, her husband's body was covered by a thin checkered cloth.

A policeman had recorded the death ― the eighth in six months for the officer.

Ms. Shende, squatting in the narrow village lane, shrouded her face in her cheap blue sari and wailed at the top of her lungs. "Your father is dead," she screamed at her small son, who stood before her, dazed.

VIDARBHA FARMERS SUICIDE SPREE TILL CONTINUE-TOLL TOUCHES 882 MARK : HIGH COURT ASKED THAT RELIEF PACKAGE SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED UNDER CHIEF MINISTER

VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI

REGD. OFFICE: 11, TRISARAN SOCIETY, KHAMLA, NAGPUR - 440 025.
PH. 2282447/457 MOBILE-9422108846.

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REF: - FARMERS SUICIDES PRESS-NOTE DATED- 19TH SEPTEMBER, 2006

VIDARBHA FARMERS SUICIDE SPREE TILL CONTINUE-TOLL TOUCHES 882 MARK : HIGH COURT ASKED THAT RELIEF PACKAGE SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED UNDER CHIEF MINISTER OF MAHARASHTRA

NAGPUR-19THD SEPTEMBER -2006,

DIVISIONAL BENCH MUMBAI COURT HAS COME OUT VERY HEAVILY ON CONTINUOUS FAILURE OF MAHARASHTRA GOVT. TO SLOW DOWN SUICIDES OF FARMERS IN VIDARBHA.HON.BLE JUDGES DILIP SINHA AND V.MORE WHILE PASSING ORDER IN PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION FILED BY KISHOR TIWARI OF VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI ASKED GOVT. TO IMPLEMENT ALL RELIEF PACKAGES UNDER DIRECT SUPERVISION OF MAHRASHTRA CHIEF MINISTER VILASRAO DESHMUKH AND HE SHOULD BE MADE ACCOUNTABLE AND RESPONSIBLE FOR FAILURE OF IMPLEMENTATION OF RELIEF PACKAGES AS ORDERED BY HIGH COURT EARLIER.

HIGH COURT TODAY REVIEW THE PROGRESS OF ALL FACT FINDING REPORTS SUBMITTED BY INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTES AND TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES AND ASKED GOVT. PLEADER WHY RECOMMENDATION OF THESE COMMITTEES TILL NOT IMPLEMENTED .HIGH COURT ASKED MAHARASHTRA GOVT. BRING COMPLETE COMPRESSIVE TIME BOUND PLAN OF ACTION WITHIN 10DAYS .ADV.FIRDOS MIRZA, ADV.VINOD TIWARI AND ADV.SJAY SOMANI APPEARED FOR PETITIONER VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI GOVT. PLEADER BHARATI REPRESENTED GOVT. OF MAHRASHRA.ADV.PRAKASH AMBEDKAR EX-M.P.OF AKOLA AND SENIOR LEADER OF RPI MOVED HIGH COURT TODAY DEMANDING COMPLETE VLOAN WAIVER TO THE FARMERS

WHEN FIRST 18 DAYS OF SEPTEMBER REPORTED 72 SUICIDES AND EARLIER 111 IN AUGUST AND 91 IN JULY THAT’S 274 AFTER THE INDIAN PRIME MINISTER DECLEARED THE SPECIAL PACKAGEOF RS.3750 CRORE TO VIDARBHA SUICIDE PORN DISTRCITS, WE ARE TOTALLY AGREE WITH MAHARASHTRA GOVERNOR THAT PLIGHTS OF VIDARBHA FARMERS IS NATIONAL CONCERN, BUT NOBODY IN THE MAHARASHTRA GOVT. OR INDIAN GOVT. IS TAKING IT SERIOUSLY VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI INFORMED TODAY ON 19TH SEPTEMBER-2006.

“WHAT IS WRONG IS THESE EFFORTS, INFACT SLOWING DOWN SUICIDES IN VIDARBHA AGRARIAN CRISIS IS NEED OF THE HOUR” KISHOR TIWARI FARM ACTIVIST AND LEADER OF SMALL COTTON FARMERS PRESSURE GROUP VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI INFORMED IN A PRESS RELEASE TODAY.VJAS HAS ALREADY DECLEARED IT,S SUPPORT ANY POSITIVE EFFORTS OF GOVT. TO CREATE CONFIDENCE IN THE VIDARBHA AND REMOVAL UNUSUAL DISTRESS PREVAILING IN THE RURAL PART OF WEST VIDARBHA.THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HUMANITY MUST COME TOGETHER AND HELP THESE HELPLESS FARMERS ,HEALING TOUCH IN REAL SENSE IS INDEED NEEDED, KISHOR TIWARI ADDED.

ALL TOLL CLAIMS LOCAL ADMISTRATION REGARDING PROVIDING FRESH CERDIT OR THE RELIEF AID ARE TURNED TO BE AN EYE WASH AFTER UPDATE WEBSITE HOSTED BY MAHARAHSTRA GOVT. REGARDING VIDARBHA FARMERS SUICIDES HIGH COURT ORDER CLEARLY EXPOSES GOVT. APATHY TOWARDS THE RELEASE OF RELIEF MONEY. IN LAST 30 DAYS THERE IS NO PROGRESS IN FRESH CROP LOAN DISBURSEMENT AND RELIED AID DISTRIBUTION BUT THERE IS HIKE IS 160 FARMERS SUICIDES .MAIN AREA OF GROWING DISTRESS IN WEST VIDARBHA IS DEBT AND LOSS MAKING FARMING DUE TO WITHDRAWAL OF ADVANCE BONUS IN COTTON MONOPOLY SCHEME BUT THESE DEMANDS OF COMPLETE LOAN WAIVER AND RESTORATION OF COTTON PRICE IS COMPLETELY TURNED DOWN BY GOVT. RESULTING MORE SUICIDES OF FARMERS.

MASS FARMERS SUICIDES EXPECTED IN WEST VIDARBHA

AS EXISTING PACKAGES SPECIALLY ANNOUNCED FOR WEST VIDARBHA IN ORDER TO CONTROL THESE ON GOING FARMERS SUICIDES ARE NOT TARGETED TO THE REASONS OF DISTRESS IN THE RURAL AREA OF COTTON GROWING REGION MASS SUICIDES OF FARMERS ARE LIKELY TO BE REPORTED IN NEAR FUTURE AS THERE IS NO ADMINISTRATION TO SEE THESES HELPLESS FARMERS AND THERE COMPLETE CURIOS AND HOSTILE CORRUPTION INCREASING DISTRESS AMONG FARMERS,WARNED KISHOR TIWARI. PLIGHTS OF THE FARMERS ARE KNOWN TO EVERYBODY BUT NOBODY IS KEEN TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS. GOVT SHOULD ANNOUNCE COMPLETE LOAN WAIVER AND COTTON RATE @RS.3000/- PER QUINTAL IMMEDIATELY AS FIRST STEP TO STOP THESE SUICIDE, KISHOR TIWARI DEMANDED.

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