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122 farmer suicides in a single district in WB in 2021, reveals RTI query -Shiv Sahay Singh

-The Hindu

In contrast, State Government has been maintaining that there were no deaths by suicide in agricultural sector; NCRB data also concur

A Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed that there were 122 farmer and farm-related suicides in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district in 2021. The West Bengal government has for the past several years maintained in public forums and the State Assembly that there has not been a single farmer and farm-related suicide in the State.

In response to a query by RTI activist Biswanath Goswami on August 27, the State Public Information Officer & Deputy Superintendent of Police (D&T), Paschim Medinipur, provided the details of farmer and farm-related suicides collected from 23 police stations across the district.

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