Shocking Mah Govt. survey that 4.5 lakh Vidarbha farmers are in Aacute Distress -93% are Debt-Trapped

Shocking  Mah Govt. survey that 4.5 lakh Vidarbha farmers are in Acute Distress -93% are Debt-Trapped

Nagpur- 3rd march 2016

Recent door to door survey done by administration in January  2015 of around  2 million Vidarbha farmers of six district Amravati division  where more than 11,000 thousands cotton farmers committed suicide  in last 15 years mostly having dry-land and drought prone  climatic conditions .Survey has reveled shocking fact that  13 lacs 60,000 thousands farmers are in found in distress out of which around 4 lacs 50,000 are found in deep distress and any small shock can trigger these  farmers  to opt extremity ,farm activist group Vidarbha JanandolanSamiti(VJAS)  convener  Kishor Tiwari  informed quoting reported published regional daily today.

The administration warned the Govt in the survey report these 4.5 lacs farm familes who are classified as in acute distress type A are prone to suicide if causes of distress and despair are not addressed ,the major reasons of distress is mounting debt as survey revealed that around 93 % farmers are in debt and issues of heavy losses due to crop failure and low market price of cotton ,critical health, daughter’s  marriage, educational expenses and unemployment,Tiwari added.

Earlier  in the year 2006 same type of door to door survey to know reasons of prevailing distress in agrarian crisis hit west Vidarbha was done after the intervention of Mumbai high court Nagpur bench in matter of PIL filed by farm activist kishor tiwari asking govt. provide relief to distressed farmers  but that time 3 lacs farmers found in acute distress and that force Indian Prime Minister Manmohan singh to visit Vidarbha and announce special Vidarbha package of Rs.4560 crore  on 1 July 2006 after that more than 30 thousand crore packages including debt waiver in 2008 were given but farmers suicides continued hence forcing Govt. second door to door survey in 2014

According survey done in farmers suicide prone six districts of west Vidarbha amaravati.akola.yavatmal, buldhana, washim and wardha and here is shocking data

District	Farmers in Acute distress Level A	Famers in Moderate distress Level B	Farmers with minimum distress Level C
AMARAVATI	1,01,746	1,85,246	54,206
AKOLA	18,129	1,42,679	72,226
YAVATMAL	97,839	1,90,828	92,633
BULDHANA	1,41,771	2,02,516	44,395
WASHIM	20,645	92,428	81,503
WARDHA	54,559	1,00,778	29,560
TOTAL	4,34,291	9,14,646	3,66.950

in west Vidarbha in last 15 years 11,097 farmers committed suicide and Govt found 4,358 illegible for compensation and 6,588 cases have been rejected ,as yavatmal district has reported 3,114 farmers suicides and has been epicenter of farmers suicides in country where in last month district administration has done survey of four village in the district where maximum number of suicides reported in last few years with help of physiological experts and report which was placed last week has shocked the Maharashtra administration as it has warned the administration that prevailing acute distress will trigger more suicides in district if corrective steps are taken that forced CM Devendra Fadanvis to take ground review and asses the reality by visiting yavatmal today ,he will visit these villages will stay there too,Tiwari informed

when earlier survey of change mega magnitude was doen in 2006 3 lakcs farmers were found in deep distress then appointed Dr. Narendra jadhav committee  which gave recommedations of gving  Food and health security to all distressed , Higher MSP to cotton and Higher MSP to cotton but all packages never addressed these recommendations, now when in 2015 more shocking and pathetic report of west Vidarbha farmers distress and despair has been placed before the administration now CM Devendra Fadanvis has also initiated idea of appointing fresh committee now headed by Dr.MS Swaminathan to look in crisis and suggest the remedies, which will have same fate as earlier committees, Tiwari added.  

महाराष्ट्राच्या ९० लाख शेतकर्‍यांना मोदी सरकारने वार्‍यावर सोडल्यावर आता अकाली पावसाने अख्खे रब्बीचे पिक बरबाद केले - विदर्भात ४८ तासात आणखी सहा शेतकऱ्यांच्या आत्महत्या

महाराष्ट्राच्या ९० लाख शेतकर्‍यांना मोदी सरकारने  वार्‍यावर सोडल्यावर आता अकाली पावसाने अख्खे रब्बीचे पिक बरबाद केले  - विदर्भात ४८ तासात आणखी सहा शेतकऱ्यांच्या आत्महत्या 

एकीकडे लोकसभेत महाराष्ट्राच्या   भाजपच्या सरकारच्या विकासाची दिशा दर्शविणारा पहिला अर्थसंकल्प महाराष्ट्राच्या ९० लाख दुष्काळग्रस्त शेतकर्‍यांना कापूस हमीभावात वाढ व पीक कर्जमाफी या मागण्यांना  या सोयीस्कररीत्या केराची टोपली दाखवत होते त्याचवेळी वरुण देवाने सुद्धा पाऊस व  गारपिटीचा सतत दोन दिवस कहर करून २० लाख हेक्टरमधील उभे रुब्बीचे गहू ,चना ,तूर , भाजीपाला व फळबागांचे प्रचंड नुकसान केले असून या दोन्ही धक्काने विदर्भात वर्धा ,यवतमाळ व  बुलढाणा या जिल्यात प्रत्येकी दोन शेतकऱ्यांनी असे सहा शेतकऱ्यांनी आपली जीवनयात्रा संपविल्याचे वृत्त समोर आले आहे यात यवतमाळ मधील भान्सरा येथील विश्वनाथ सिगन्चुडे तर बिजोरा येथील रमेश राजने यांचा समावेश असून वर्धा जिल्यात अलीपुरचे गुणवान   गिरोडे व दहेगावचे पंकज दाते तर बुलढाणा  जिल्यात मोहताळा येथील मनोज ताटवे तर घुसर या गावचे गुलाबराव पाटील यांचा समावेश आहे . यावर्षी विदर्भात १२६ शेतकऱ्यांनी आत्महत्या केली असून अकाली पावसाच्यामुळे झालेल्या नापिकीची मार वं मोदी  सरकारने  दिलेला दगा शेतकऱ्यांना आत्महत्यांना आमंत्रण देणारा असल्याचा आरोप विदर्भ जनआंदोलन समितीचे संयोजक किशोर तिवारी यांनी केला आहे. 

               विदर्भात होत असलेल्या शेतकरी आत्महत्यांचे रहस्य माहीत करण्यासाठी  विरोधी पक्षात असताना आपला गळा ओरडून  ओरडून कोरडा करणारे  मुख्यमंत्री  देवेंद्र  फडणवीस ३ मार्चला  यवतमाळ जिल्यात भेटीला येत असुन मला आता खरे खरे कारण सांगा असा निरोप अधिकाऱ्यांना दीला असुन मात्र निवडणुकीत पंतप्रधान नरेंद्र मोदींनी शेतकरी आत्महत्या ह्या शेतीमालाला भाव मिळत नसल्यामुळे व शेतकर्‍यांच्या तोट्याच्या शेतीमुळे झालेल्या कजार्मुळे होत असून आपण यावर गुंतवणूक अधीक ५०  टक्के नफा या सुत्राने कृषीमालाला आधारभूत किंमत व सर्व शेतकर्‍यांना नवीन कर्ज देऊ ह्या दोन्ही आश्‍वासनांना पूर्तता करण्यासाठी  आता चुप का असा सवाल किशोर तिवारी यांनी केला आहे . भाजपला स्वामिनाथन आयोग व नरेंद्र जाधव  समितीच्या शेतकरी आत्महत्या रोखण्यासाठी केलेल्या शिफारशी पाहण्याची वेळ नाही व  भ्रष्ट अधिकाऱ्यांची चर्चा करून मुख्यमंत्री काय साधणार कारण अशा शेतकरी आत्महत्या पर्यटनाचा पंतप्रधान मनमोहन सिंग ,राहुल गाधी व अनेक पुर्वीच्या मुख्यमंत्र्यांचा भेटीचा अनुभव शेतकरी आत्महत्यामध्ये वाढ होण्यामध्येच झाला असुन आता चर्चा   बंद व आश्वासनपूर्ती करा असा सल्लाही तिवारी यांनी दिला आहे .  

यावर्षी महाराष्ट्र सरकारने एकूण ३९ हजार ४५३ गावांपैकी २४ हजार ८११ गावे म्हणजे जवळपास ६0 टक्के गावांमध्ये पूर्णत: खरीप पीक नष्ट झाल्यामुळे दुष्काळग्रस्त जाहीर केले आहेत. यामुळे ९0 लाख शेतकरी गंभीर दुष्काळाच्या प्रभावात असून जागतिक मंदीचा मार बसल्यामुळे नापिकीनंतर कापूस, तुर, सोयाबीन व दूध उत्पादक शेतकरी देशोधडीला लागले आहेत. अशा आणीबाणीच्या वेळी विदर्भाच्या शेतकर्‍यांनी भारताचे अर्थमंत्री अरुण जेटली यांना हमीभाव वाढ, पिककर्ज मुक्ती व कोरडवाहू क्षेत्रात कमी पावसाचे पीक घेण्यासाठी अनुदान अशी तीन सूत्री असलेला एकात्मिक कार्यक्रम सादर करण्यासाठी किशोर तिवारी यांनी विनंती केली होती मात्र सरकारने हमीभाव वाढ व पीककर्जमाफी  देणार नाही  असे स्पष्ट केले आहे त्यामुळे महाराष्ट्राच्या अर्थसंकल्पात तरी आपण शेतकर्‍यांना पीककर्जमाफी द्या  अशी मागणी किशोर तिवारी केली आहे

Union Budget 2015: No Healing Touch to 3 Million Distressed Vidarbha Farmers-VJAS

Union Budget 2015: No Healing Touch to 3 Million Distressed Vidarbha Farmers-VJAS

28 February 2015 

Once again new NDA Govt. has failed to give any healing touch in his policy road map budget -2015 distressed 3 million dry land farmers which are growing cash crop like cotton and soybean in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra as there is no announcement of fulfilling   PM Narendra Modi pre-poll promises on farm loan waiver and giving higher MSP according to a proposed formula of investment plus 50 per cent returns as indicated earlier that BJP is treating the issue of minimum support price (MSP) and waiver of farm loans as a 'Kisan-Jumla' (empty election promise) as there is no budgetary provisioning and plan to address the acute agrarian crisis with focus on credit, cost and crop issues hence to stop farmers suicides, a key farmers' advocacy group in the drought-prone Vidarbha region, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) said in a press statement.

This year the Maharashtra state government officially declared that 60 per cent of its villages were facing a "severe drought" of the century, last year, affecting almost 90 lakh farmers in state. 23,811 of state's total 39,453 villages fall under this category after complete kharif crop was damaged, there is international recession in cotton as global market and demand has been dropped and this will effect more than 40 million cotton farmers cultivating cotton in more than 12 million hector mostly dry land farmers hence union budget  is talking big mega investment infrastructure and long term credit but failed to address core issues of giving direct relief package to these 40 million cotton farmers who are victims of global open market economy and mismatched demand supply situation ,NDA has  sidelined the rural and agrarian crisis from its priority list When poor are demanding food under universal PDS and farmers are killing themselves due to debt and poor prices of agriculture produce,. This will make life of poor and farmer’s miserable, VJAS president, Kishore Tiwari, added.

It was made clear earlier Budget-2015 that NDA Govt. is not  serious to address the core issue of crisis that are better cost and credit as it was reflected RBI Governor’s statement that all earlier farm loan waiver packages have failed to provide relief and such packages would add to banks' NPAs and  Indian Govt. an affidavit in the Supreme Court said the government cannot give the MSP on the basis of the BJP's proposed formula of investment plus 50 per cent returns as it goes contrary to all existing formulae of the Commission on Agriculture Costs and Prices, this is very unfortunate as central Govt. failed to understand serious gravity of Vidarbha agrarian crisis when region has reported   1,160 farmers suicides in Maharashtra in 2014, and 124 in 2015 (till date), it was high time that the Centre looks at agrarian crisis seriously in Vidarbha and announce special plan to address existing despair," Tiwari said while urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to relook into Budget -2015 outlay .

विदेशी पैशाने विकासाचे धोरण हे गरीबांचे व शेतकऱ्यांना मरण - "गरीबाला अन्न तर शेतकऱ्याला द्या जगण्याचा अधिकार"- किशोर तिवारी

विदेशी पैशाने विकासाचे धोरण हे  गरीबांचे व शेतकऱ्यांना मरण - "गरीबाला अन्न तर शेतकऱ्याला द्या जगण्याचा अधिकार"- किशोर तिवारी 

दिनांक -२७ फेबुवारी २०१५

 भाजपच्या सरकारचे अर्थमंत्री आर्थीक सुधारणांना गती देणार याची  हमी जागतीक बाजाराला देत  आपल्या सरकारची दिशा व देशाची दशा निश्चित करणारा अर्थसंकल्प  प्रिंटींगसाठी शिरा  खाऊन पाठवीत होते  त्या प्रिटींग दरम्यान विदर्भात आणखी २४ शेतकऱ्यांनी खुल्या बाजारीकरणामुळे दिवाळखोरीत गेल्यामुळे आत्महत्या केल्या असुन यामध्ये पंतप्रधान नरेंद्र मोदी यांनी आपला लोकसभेचा निवडणूक प्रचार सुरु करताना २० मार्च २०१४ रोजी 'किसानोसे चाय पर चर्चा ' आयोजीत करण्यासाठी निवडलेल्या यवतमाळ १५ शेतकऱ्याच्या आत्महत्यांनी जगात गाजलेल्या दाभडी या खेड्यातील युवा शेतकरी विट्ठल राठोड यांचाही समावेश होता . लोकसभेत अख्या महाराष्ट्राच्या नाहीतर भारताच्या ग्रामीण जनतेनी 'सबका साथ और सबका विकास ' पंतप्रधान नरेंद्र मोदी हाकेला साथ देत भाजपला डोक्यावर घेतले होते तर पंतप्रधान नरेंद्र मोदीनी शेतकरी आत्महत्या ह्या शेतीमालाला भाव मिळत नसल्यामुळे व शेतकऱ्यांच्या तोट्याच्या शेतीमुळे झालेल्या कर्जामुळे होत असुन आपण यावर गुंतवणूक अधिक ५0 टक्के नफा या सूत्राने कृषीमालाला आधारभूत किंमत व सर्व शेतकऱ्यांना नवीन कर्ज हे उपाय घेऊन तात्काळ  तोडगा देण्याचे आश्वासन देऊन सत्ता काबीज केली मात्र २०१४च्या अर्थसंकल्पात या मुद्द्यांना बगल देण्यात आली व पुढच्या  २०१५ अर्थसंकल्पात ह्या पूर्ण होतील असा दावा भाजपने केला होता मात्र आता अर्थसंकल्पापूर्वीच  आता यापुढे कोणतीही पिक कर्जमाफी वा  कृषीमालाला आधारभूत किंमत देणे शक्य नसल्याचे आता केंद्र सरकारकडून सांगण्यात येत आहे, यामुळे भाजप सरकारचे खुल्या अर्थकारणाचे  धोरण असुन सरकारला विदेशी पैशाने बुलेट ट्रेन ,  मेट्रो सिटी , मुंबई -दिल्ली कारीडोर हे असून भारताच्या ७० कोटी जनतेला वाऱ्यावर सोडण्याचे संकेत मिळत असून गरीबाला अन्न तर शेतकऱ्याला आपले अस्तिव व जगण्याचा अधिकार द्या अशी मागणी  विदर्भ जनआंदोलन समितीचे अध्यक्ष किशोर तिवारी यांनी अर्थसंकल्पाच्या पृर्वसंध्येला भारताचे  पंतप्रधान नरेंद्र मोदी केली आहे.

भाजपने सत्तेवर येताना ज्या आश्वासनाची  खैरात दिली त्यावर आता भाजपचे राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष अमीत शाह यांनी परदेशात बेकायदेशीर खाती जमा असलेला काळा पैसा प्रत्येक भारतीयाच्या खात्यात १५ लाख रुपयांप्रमाणे जमा करू हे निवडणुकीपूर्वी दिलेले आश्‍वासन ही गंमत होती असा खुलासा करून यापुर्वी  धक्का दिला मात्र  आता सर्वोच्च न्यायालयात प्रतिज्ञापत्र दाखल करून अधिकृतपणे भारताच्या सरकारने मोदी यांच्या गुंतवणूक अधिक ५0 टक्के नफा या सूत्राने कृषीमालाला आधारभूत किंमत देणे शक्य नाही, असे स्पष्ट केले. तर रिझर्व्ह बँकेचे गव्हर्नर रघुराम राजन यांनी मागील पीककर्ज माफीचा फायदा शेतकर्‍यांना झाला व सर्व पुर्वीचे कर्जमाफी पॅकेज दिल्याने बँका एनपीए वाढ झाली आहे तर बँकांना सुद्धा परतावा राज्यांनी दिला नसल्यामुळे पतपुरवठा र्मयादित म्हणून केंद्र आणि राज्य सरकार कर्जमाफी योजनेचा शेतकर्‍यांना फायदा झालेला नाही. त्यामुळे नवीन एनडीए सरकार भविष्यात आणखी पीक कर्जमाफी योजना राबविणार नाही, अशी घोषणा केल्यामुळे निवडणुकीमध्ये भाजपने शेतकर्‍यांना हमीभाव वाढीचे व सातबारा कोरा करण्याचे आश्‍वासन हा ही जुमलाच असल्याचे कटू सत्य समोर आल्याचे विदर्भ जनआंदोलन समितीचे संयोजक किशोर तिवारी यांनी म्हटले आहे. हे सारे प्रकरण शेतकर्‍यांचे विश्‍वासघात करणारे असून केंद्र सरकारने विदर्भाच्या शेतकर्‍यांची वाचविण्यासाठी आर्थिक  धोरणाची दिशा बदलावी , अशी मागणी विदर्भ जन आंदोलन समितीचे संयोजक किशोर तिवारी यांनी केली आहे. 

यावर्षी महाराष्ट्र सरकारने एकूण ३९ हजार ४५३ गावांपैकी २४ हजार ८११ गावे म्हणजे जवळपास ६0 टक्के गावांमध्ये पूर्णत: खरीप पीक नष्ट झाल्यामुळे दुष्काळग्रस्त जाहीर केले आहेत. यामुळे ९0 लाख शेतकरी गंभीर दुष्काळाच्या प्रभावात असून जागतिक मंदीचा मार बसल्यामुळे नापिकीनंतर कापूस, तुर, सोयाबीन व दूध उत्पादक शेतकरी देशोधडीला लागले आहेत. अशा आणीबाणीच्या वेळी विदर्भाच्या शेतकर्‍यांनी भारताचे अर्थमंत्री अरुण जेटली यांना हमीभाव वाढ, पिककर्ज मुक्ती व कोरडवाहू क्षेत्रात कमी पावसाचे पीक घेण्यासाठी अनुदान अशी तीन सूत्री असलेला एकात्मिक कार्यक्रम सादर करण्यासाठी किशोर तिवारी यांनी विनंती केली होती. मात्र सरकारने हमीभाव वाढ व पीककर्ज हे आम्ही गमतीने म्हटले होते, असे स्पष्ट केल्याचे तिवारी यांनी सांगितले. त्यामुळे अर्थसंकल्पात पुन्हा एकदा शेतकर्‍यांना सरकार वार्‍यावर सोडणार असल्याचे दिसून येत असल्याचे किशोर तिवारी यांनी म्हटले आहे

VJAS welcome AAP decision of Free Water and Power Tariff cut –Urged Maharashtra Chief Minister to follow ‘AAP’

VJAS welcome AAP decision of Free Water and Power Tariff cut –Urged Maharashtra Chief Minister to follow ‘AAP’

Nagpur -25th Febuary  2015

Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti (VJAS) activist group who is working for rights of dying cotton farmers and food staved tribal of eastern part of Maharashtra has welcomed Delhi AAP Chief Minister  Arvind Kejriwal to his historic decision to subsidies  water and power  which has largely been privatized and is being operated under word bank and free trade era of globalization  since 1991 and supported by policies of UPA and  NDA parties  allowing corporate houses to exploit common man which is being strongly protested throughout country wherever water and power distribution is handed over  private players who are just taking people on ride having made unholy alliance with both  congress and BJP  hence in order to save congress party led ‘Progressive Front Govt.’ of Neo-globalization brand ambassador  Prathviraj Chavan form humiliating defeat in next election PDF Govt. of Maharashtra is humbly urged to give free water and subsidies electricity for poor families under BPL as done by Haryana congress Govt., Kishore Tiwari of VJAS informed in press release . 

‘When Delhi Govt. with merely with Rs.4000/- crore budget can take decision then state like Maharashtra where annul tax revenue collection is crossing Rs. one lakh sixty thousand crore  can take decision to give subsidy to local bodies and electric companies to give free water and free power to poor and tribal without going for budget provisioning  as  state has cur food and kerosene subsidy and social  welfare fund to larger extend for direct benefit to poor  hence this is good chance Maharashtra Govt. CM to restore his credibility lost by giving empty election promises of farm loan waiver and tollfree state ’, Tiwari added.

 

‘Water-Power Distribution’ is National Issue –AAP decision to Impact UPA-NDA Pro-Globalization Policies

 AAP Govt. which has initiated free water and power tariff cut as fulfillment of election manifesto but this will have larger impact  pro-liberalization agenda forced by world Bank which is asking  center and states to cut subsidies on water-power-fuel and private these most essential service to corporate houses and both main leading national parties congress and BJP will have to rethink their model of development instrumented by ‘US-WORLD BANK-WTO-IMF’ and this is good beginning and move toward the real independence hence we welcome AAP decision and urged all states should follow it mainly BJP ruled states who have kept their PM candidate in waiting to avoid ‘India shining-2004’ experience, Tiwari added. 

Maharashtra farmers accuse BJP over MSP, waiver of loans-IANS

Maharashtra farmers accuse BJP over MSP, waiver of loans

IANS  |  Nagpur (Maharashtra)   February 24, 2015 Last Updated at 16:10 IST

http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/maharashtra-farmers-accuse-bjp-over-msp-waiver-of-loans-115022400692_1.html

Debt-hit farmers of Maharashtra's Vidarbha region have accused the BJP of treating the issue of minimum support prices (MSP) and waiver of farm loans as a 'jumla' (empty election promise) and demanded that the government seek a fresh mandate, an NGO said here Tuesday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had made pre-poll promises on farm loans waiver and giving higher MSP according to a proposed formula of investment plus 50 percent returns, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) president Kishore Tiwari said.

"Both these turned out to be 'jumlas' - one has been rejected officially by the RBI and the other by the government as per its affidavit in the Supreme Court," Tiwari told IANS.

He accused the government of 'back-stabbing and betrayal' of the 70 percent Maharashtra population dependent on agriculture who had believed the promises would be made and supported the BJP in the last Lok Sabha and Maharashtra assembly polls.

Without mincing words, Tiwari alleged that the BJP-led government is engaging in 'jumlas' one after the other - first with BJP president Amit Shah's statement of depositing Rs.1.50 million in bank accounts of all Indians after bringing black money stashed abroad, later the reversal on the sensitive toll tax issue in Maharashtra, and now a similar fate for the farmers.

"Now, there is news about a RTI query revelation that there is no evidence to prove that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had ever sold tea at a railway station...," Tiwari added.

He claimed that a note on the farmers issues was sought by the BJP and included in its polls manifesto after consulting the VJAS and other organisations with a commitment that only those points would be included which it could fulfil after coming to power.

The scenario is different now with the centre filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court that the government cannot give the MSP on the basis of the BJP's proposed formula of investment plus 50 percent returns as it goes contrary to all existing formulae of the Commission on Agriculture Costs and Prices.

Similarly, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said that since all earlier farm loans waiver packages have failed to provide relief and such packages would add to banks' NPAs - dashing all hopes of the debt trapped farmers for any relief in the next Union Budget.

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said in December 2014 that "debt waiver schemes of central and state governments have not benefited farmers as they restricted credit flow subsequently hence the NDA government has no plan to give any more debt waiver in future", Tiwari quoted grimly.

With 1,160 farmers suicides in Maharashtra in 2014, and 112 in 2015 (till date), this year may prove to be worse for the agrarian communities in the country, he said.

Four more Vidarbha Farmers Suicides in a Day –last 45 Days 202 farmers killed in drought hit Maharashtra

Four more Vidarbha Farmers Suicides in a Day –last 45 Days 202 farmers killed in drought hit Maharashtra  

 Dated -19^th February 2015

As Vidarbha reports four more innocent aid starved distressed farmers suicides as Forty-five days of 2015 drought hit Vidarbha 108 and Marathwada 94  reported  202 farm suicides, whereas same region had reported 1833 in 2014. As per official report ill-fated four vidarbha farmers who killed themselves are Gajanan Khandare of Khillari in Aamravati, Laxman Divare of Hivlani in Yavatmal ,Shankar Shende of Torgoan in Chandrapur and Bhika Kawale of Kesapur in Buldhana . The delay in distribution of relief aid and complete apathy of Govt. are the biggest reason for the farmers to take the extreme step Besides, the vicious cycle of crop loan in combination with very low market price of main cash crop cotton ,paddy and soybean    erratic monsoon in the region leaves the farmers with no option but to take the extreme step, informed  Kishor Tiwari of Vidarbha Janandolan Samit(VJAS) ,farm activist group who are documenting farmers suicides since 1997. When this year  Maharashtra the government officially declared that 60% of its villages were facing a severe drought of the century affecting almost 90 lakh farmers in state 23,811 of the state's 39,453 villages come in this category after complete kharif crop has been damaged adding fueled to existing farm crisis in the region where the highest number of farmer’s suicides reported in the country hence to address the very acute issue of farmers suicides it is critical time for  Indian Govt to provide time bound budgetary allocation to address agrarian crisis  on with complete focus on credit ,cost and crop issues which are only responsible rural economic crisis  but even after humiliating defeat in recent New Delhi election finance minister announcement to continue economic reforms  forth coming budget  unlikely  to address core issues of Indian rural crisis, Tiwari added.

Last week only  Indian supreme court has shown serious concern over ongoing farmers suicides now on Monday taking suo motu cognizance of the newspaper reports that the Maharashtra government had denied compensation to the families of more than 2,700 farmers who have committed suicide since 2011 because of agricultural distress, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the state government to explain its position within two weeks. When state Govt. has turned blind eye to Indian govt. too has rubbed slat to wounds of 9 million drought hit dying farmers by sanctioning  only Rs 500 crore of the Rs 4,500 crore assistance demanded by the state government to tackle the problem after exactly 3 months resulting more than 500 farmers suicides in Vidarbha and Marathawada  region ,this is mockery  of agrarian crisis and reflects apathy of NDA Govt. toward farmer suicide issue ,Tiwari said

VJAS has insisted finance ministry to provide much needed integrated plan which will the major demands of the farmers include- minimum support price (MSP) for cotton and soybean to match the cost of production with a 50 % profit margin, new crop loan to farmers after waiving their existing debt dues, bringing new technology in agriculture and irrigation. The provisions Financial assistance for farm widows and higher education facilities to their wards along with food security and health security to distressed agrarian community should to part such solution plan which will stand in line with promises given by PM Modiji,  Tiwari added in letter  to Indian Finance minister .