Three more vidarbha Aid Starved farmers suicides a
day
The distress and despair in west vidarbha
has claimed three more farmers suicide in last 24 hours taking toll to 604 in
year 2013 after heavy rain and flood damaged crop and as per reports they are
1.Jagdish Sahakar of village of Yavatmal
2.Shankar Wankhede of village Belora and
3.Dhanraj Wankhede of village Rohankhed both in Amaravati district
means every eight hours one debt trapped aid starved farmer's suicide
is being reported but Maharashtra
administration has turned blind eye to these innocent genocide as
neither single paisa as relief aid nor the farm credit is being given even
after Maharashtra chief minister Prathaviraj chavan has announced the relief
package Rs.2000 crore and hostile and corrupt administration is responsible for
these farm suicides , Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti (VJAS)
informed today, urging urgent intervention of Indian Govt. to tackle very
pathetic situation as state Govt. failed to give any healing touch to dying
farming community which is crying for food, medicine and relief aid .
Vidarbha farm
suicides data
2001: 52
2002: 104
2003: 148
2004: 447
2005: 445
2006: 1,448
2007: 1,246
2008: 1,268
2009: 916
2010: 748
2011: 918
2012 : 916
2013 : (Till 30
August—604)
‘Yesterday only we released 24 farmers list who committed
suicide in Yavatmal district alone but administration has shocked media
reporters when RDC Yavatmal told them
official figure of farm suicides in last three month is 56 and 142 in the year hence actua; farmers suicide
figure in 11 district of vidarbha must have crossed 1000 mark as only one out
of three farm suicides are being reported
if this is level of distress and despair in rural vidarbha then agrarian
crisis is serious than 2006 when Indian Govt.
intervene and Prime minister visited and announced relief package
Rs.3750 crore’ tiwari added.
“Most of the farm
suicides are from villages which are flood affected and flood salvaged area and
collector yavatmal district was asked
visit families and to report ground truth of distress and despair forcing
farmers to kill themselves by Maharashtra chief minister and to take fresh survey of but administration and
babus have not moved out of A/C cabins
and till today has not visited single family where debt trapped and aid starved
farmers committed suicide more over
all survey of crop damages are being done on office table resulting depriving
million families in yavatmal who
are flood affected from aid who are
facing heavy damages to main crop of
cotton, soya, paddy and tur in more than million hector if apathy of administration is continued
ground situation likely fuel more distress and more farm suicides are feared if immediate central intervention
is not reached to dying vidarbha’s flood hit people” Tiwari added.
The unseen record rain in drought prone vidarbha has been
creating havoc and one lac families homeless and massive damage to standing
crop in an around a million hector amounting more than Rs.20,000 crore hence
Maharashtra Govt. being urged to give relief to 2 crore rain-flood hit population of vidrabha
as flood-hit are in urgent need of food, compensation, fresh credit and
medical help , Tiwari added.
Vidarbha rain-flood crisis needs integrated relief package
that should address compensation crop damages to all farmers as rain is till
continued the flood victims are crying
for help and property ,credit restoration and fresh crop loan to vidarbha farmers ,food security for all effected
families under antyodaya, free health services
and 100% reimbursement of fees
for higher professional education is need of the hour, Tiwari urged Maharashtra CM but local administration
ground report is not in line with crisis delaying needy help to distressed people.
