VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI
REGD. OFFICE: 11, TRISARAN SOCIETY, KHAMLA, NAGPUR - 440 025.
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REF: - FARMERS SUICIDES VERY-URGENT- COMMENTARY DATED- 24TH DEC, 2006
12 MORE VIDARBHA FARMERS' SUICIDES IN LAST TWO DAYS
IRRESPONSIBLE LEADER –CORRUPT BUREAUCRATS AND HELPLESS FARMERS –KISHOR TIWARI
NAGPUR-24th DECEMBER -2006,
IN LAST TWO DAYS ANOTHER 12 VIDARBHA COTTON FARMERS AND EARLIER THAT TWENTY-FIVE FARMER SUICIDES IN FIVE DAYS THAT 37 COTTON FARMERS KILLING THEMSELVES IN THE SMALL REGION OF VIDARBHA THIS WEEK -- APPROXIMATELY 24,000 SQUARE KM (9,266 SQUARE MILES) -- IN MAHARASHTRA, ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING AND RICHEST STATES IN INDIA, MADE NO BIG HEADLINES IN THE INDIAN NEWS DAILIES. IN FACT CRITICAL DISTRESS AND AGRARIAN CRISIS IN WHICH MORE THAN 1,246 FARMERS HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN THE BACKWARD VIDARBHA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA SINCE JUNE 2005, FARMERS ACTIVIST GROUP VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMITI CLAIMED TODAY 24TH DECEMBER, 2006.
IN 2006 THIS KHARIFF SEASON, MONTHS OF JULY (90), AUGUST (111), SEPTEMBER (124), OCTOBER (112) AND NOVEMBER 107 AND DECEMBER TILL TODAY 24TH OF DECEMBER 88 THIS YEAR HAVE REGISTERED SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF SUICIDES, THE YEAR 2006 HAS YEAR OF VIDARBHA SUICIDES AS TILL DATE 2006 MORE THAN 1000 FARMERS SUICIDES HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE ADMINISTRATION
VJAS IS TOTALLY AGREE TO ONE WRITER AS HE REPORTS THAT
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WHEN A NEWS STORY IS REPEATED DAY AFTER DAY, ITS DRAWING POWER SUBSIDES (AS CAN BE SEEN FROM THE GLOBAL PRESS COVERAGE OF IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS). AT BEST, IT WILL GET A CURSORY MENTION ON THE UMPTEENTH PAGE OF SOME LOCAL DAILY.
VIDARBHA REFLECTS THE DILEMMA AND PAIN OF THE "INDIA STORY," AS THE NATION CONTINUES TO EXPERIENCE DOUBLE-DIGIT GROWTH RATES AFTER DECADES OF AN "URBAN INDIAN" RATE OF GROWTH, A TERM APPLIED TO THE LAGGARD PERFORMANCE OF THE ECONOMY FROM INDEPENDENCE IN 1947 TO THE LATE 1990S.
THIS STORY IS NOTHING NEW FOR VIDARBHA OR ELSEWHERE IN INDIA OR THE DEVELOPING WORLD, AS, INCREASINGLY; THE KEY RESULT AREAS (KRAS) OF POLICYMAKERS ARE DEFINED IN TERMS OF GROWTH RATES FOR THE MORE LAGGARDLY DEVELOPING AREAS OF NATIONS. ONE CAN SENSE THE FRENETIC RUSH AMONG CERTAIN SECTIONS OF POLICYMAKERS AND ANALYSTS IN INDIA, AS THE SENSE SINKS IN OF LOSING THE RACE TO CHINA BECAUSE OF OUR LEADERS' INACTION OVER THE LAST DECADE
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YOUNG FARMER FROM VILLAGE SOMNALA NEAR WANI CONSUMED SUICIDE IN LAST WEEK OF NOVEMBER AND FIRST WEEK OF DECEMBER REPORTED KILLING OF DINESH GUGAL ANOTHER COTTON FARMERS FROM VILLAGE MENDHOLI NEAR WAS KILLED WHEN IT WAS REQUESTING ADMINISTRATION TO PURCHASE HIS COTTON AT THROW AWAY PRICE NOW THIS WEEK. POOR FARMER COTTON FARMER PUNDLIK MAHADEV GHIRSAVALE OF VILLAGE TEJAPUR HAVING FED UP 6 MONTHS WAIT TO GET RELIEF AID FROM AGRICULTURE OFFICE COMMITTED SUICIDE YESTERDAY ON 20TH DECEMBER IN WANI BEFORE AGRICULTURE OFFICE IT SELF IN THE EVENING WHEN HIS ALL REQUESTS WERE TURNED DOWN BY CORRUPT OFFICER AS THEY WERE DEMANDING 20% CUT ON RELIEF AID OF RS.4500/- IN CASH BEFORE THE CHEQUE IS HANDED OVER TO HIM WAS REQUESTING THAT HE WILL GIVE RS.900 AMOUNT OF CUT AFTER ENCASHMENT THIS CHEQUE, HAVING FAILED TO GET RELIEF AID CHEQUE FROM AGRICULTURE OFFICER HE CONSUMED POISON AND BROUGHT DEAD IN THE GOVT. HOSPITAL OF WANI .
THESE THREE INCIDENCES CAN’T BE SEEN IN ISOLATION AS MORE THAN 3 MILLION COTTON FARMERS ARE IN THE GRIP OF AGRARIAN CRISIS DUE TO WTO POLICIES OF OPEN TRADE OF COTTON TRADE AND MASS FAILURE OF BT COTTON IN THE WEST VIDARBHA, WHICH COLLAPSED THE COTTON ECONOMY OF THE REGION. MAHARASHTRA GOVT. HAS CONFIRMED THAT MORE THAN 4.34 LACS FARMERS ARE UNDER EXTREME DISTRESS AND MAY COMMIT SUICIDE AT ANY TIME.
PUNDLIK GHIRSAVALE IS THE 3010TH FARMER TO COMMIT SUICIDE SINCE 2001 IN COTTON GROWING WEST VIDARBHA.
IT IS KNOWN FACT THAT THE 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. EVERYBODY KNOWS PLIGHTS OF THE FARMERS BUT NOBODY IS KEEN TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS.
IF ANY BODY ASK WHAT IS WRONG WITH ONE TIME VERY RICH COTTON ECONOMY OF WEST VIDARBHA HAS BEEN SO COLLAPSED THAT OUT OF 3 MILLION FARMERS MORE THAN 75% FARMERS ARE UNDER EXTREME DISTRESS AND COMMITTING SUICIDES, ACTIVIST SAYS IT’S RESULT OF WRONG POLICIES OF GOVT. AND ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS THAT FARMERS ARE KILLING THEMSELVES BECAUSE OF THEIR WRONG HABITS BUT WHEN POLITICAL LEADERS BEING ASKED REGARDING THE FARM SUICIDES THEN THEY BLAME POLITICAL PARTY IN POWER FOR THESE KILLINGS. THE FACT IS THAT FARMER’S SUICIDE IS ACCUMULATED RESULT OF MASS DISTRESS DUE COMPLETE FAILURE SOCIAL AND CIVIL ADMINISTRATION IN THIS AREA. IRRESPONSIBLE AND CORRUPT LEADERS AND BUREAUCRATS WITH WASTED INTEREST AT ALL LEVEL HAVE CREATED THIS HOSTILE CONDITION.
RESTORATION OF SOCIAL AND CIVIL ADMINISTRATION IS UP MOST PRIORITY THEN PROVIDING SUPPORT SYSTEMS LIKE HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, FOOD SECURITY AND LOCAL EMPLOYMENT IN ORDER TO SLOW DOWN THE GOING SUICIDE IS MUST BUT NOBODY IS SERIOUS ON THESE ISSUES.
SUSTAINABLE FARMING IS NEED OF HOUR BUT ANY RELIEF PACKAGE TARGETING THESE ISSUES WILL NOT IMMEDIATELY STOP ON GOING EPIDEMIC OF FARMERS SUICIDES AS THEY FOOD STARVED, THEY MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY ILL HENCE HEALTH CARE AND FOOD SECURITY TO THESE FARMING COMMUNITY IS MUST, WE HAVE BEEN DEMANDING THESE BASIC DEMANDS BUT INSTEAD OF LOOKING TO THESE DEMANDS WE ARE BEING SENT TO JAIL ALL THE TIME. NOW IT’S YOUR RESPONSBILITY TO SAVE THESE 3 MILLION FARMERS OF WEST VIDARBHA.
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MOHAN JADHAV
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