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No farmer suicide in last 3 years, Centre quotes state report by Mahir Haneef


Even as the state government was dealing with the spurt in farmer suicides in Wayanad in 2011, officials informed the central government that no farmer suicides were taking place in Kerala, according to an affidavit filed by the central government in the Kerala High Court on Monday.

In a counter-affidavit filed before the high court on a petition seeking relief measures to farmers in Wayanad, the central government quoted the report filed by the Kerala government, which stated that no farmer suicides took place in Kerala during 2009, 2010 and 2011.

The affidavit, filed by Sadhna Khanna, under-secretary of department of agriculture and cooperation of the Union government, also revealed that the state government had filed a report to the Centre stating that farmer suicides were going down. The state government reported that farmer suicides declined from 112 in 2006 to 68 in 2007, and 11 in 2008.

The affidavit also contained true copies of the reports filed by various states.

The Central government cited lack of a proper report at the central level to connect any agrarian reason with farmer suicides. Being unable to identify farmer suicides from the National Crime Records Bureau's annual reports titled 'Accidental deaths and suicides in India,' the central government relied on the data provided by the state government, in which the latter had denied occurrence of farmer suicides for the past three years.

Six farmers had ended their lives within a span of four weeks prior to November 16, following which chief minister Oommen Chandy announced a 12-point plan for them.

After reaching a peak of 11,516 suicides during 1997-2005, as reported by the media, Kerala had witnessed a drop in farmer suicides, owing to the debt relief measures taken by the government. But the numbers again rose during the last few months of 2011.