-TheNewsMinute.com From 2013 to 2014, farmer suicides in India have halved, but farmers’ groups and activists are not rejoicing. Severely criticizing the government, they say that the authorities have merely come up with disingenuous categories which are designed to move the deaths from the columns that record farmers’ suicides to ones that rule them out. In its Accidental Deaths and suicides in India report for 2014, the National Crime Records Bureau’s said...
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Did the number of farmer suicides really halve last year? -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Change of definition behind fall rather than plan for bettering lot of poor farmers, improving agricultural economy New Delhi: Between 2013 and 2014, the number of farmer suicides halved. That’s what the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) which tracks farmer suicides would have us believe. It isn’t an improvement in India’s agricultural economy or a programme aimed at bettering the lot of poor farmers that has achieved this. Instead, it is a...
More »Women account for 2% of central forces, but 40% of suicides
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Women constitute less than 2% of all central paramilitary personnel but account for over 40% of the suicides in these forces, data collated from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and the Bureaunv of Police Research & Development (BPRD) shows. The recently released NCRB data on accidental deaths and suicides shows that in 2014, 175 people in central armed police forces - which include the BSF,...
More »Decoding Karnataka debt trap: Rise of a new breed of private moneylenders -Sowmya Aji
-The Economic Times MANDYA: A new breed of moneylenders has pushed farmers of moneyed Mandya district in Karnataka into an endless debt trap, leading to mounting suicides, even as the institutionalised credit system has failed them. The system is so well entrenched that the borrowers themselves are taking steps to protect the moneylenders from a government crackdown on the practice. Farmers — big, small and marginal — have taken loans from private...
More »Maharashtra records most farmer suicides -Pavan Dahat
-The Hindu Chhattisgarh records the fourth highest in the country. With 2,568 farmers’ suicides during 2014, Maharashtra recorded the highest number in the country, though activists pointed out that the number was far higher. The data released on Friday by the National Crime Records Bureau also show that Chhattisgarh is among the top four States in farmers’ suicides. According to the NCRB, Maharashtra recorded 578 fewer suicides than 2013, when 3,146 farmers ended their...
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