The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) election manifesto for 2014 Lok Sabha election says that if elected to the Centre, it will then "(p)ut in place welfare measures for farmers above 60 years in age, small and marginal farmers and farm labours", among other things. Despite the formation of a BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre in 2014, the latest available data on farm suicides from the...
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In 80% farmer-suicides due to debt, loans from banks, not moneylenders -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express It’s for the first time that the NCRB has categorised farmers’ suicides due to debt or Bankruptcy based on the source of loans. Local moneylenders are usually portrayed as the villains in India’s farmer-suicides narrative, but government data shows that 80 per cent of farmers killed themselves in 2015 because of Bankruptcy or debts after taking loans from banks and registered microfinance institutions. According to National Crime Records Bureau’s latest...
More »Farmer suicides doubled in state in 2015: NCRB
-The New Indian Express BENGALURU: The number of suicides among the farming community in the state doubled in 2015 as compared to 2014, according to the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India 2015 report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The recently released report showed that several factors such as Bankruptcy, crop failure and illness were among the major reasons for the suicides. Karnataka also recorded the second highest number of...
More »Farm suicides up 2% in 2015 -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard According to the data of NCRB, of the 12,602 persons, 8,007 were farmers or cultivators New Delhi: Around 12,602 persons in the farm sector committed suicide in 2015, almost 2 per cent more than in 2014, highlighting the distress in rural areas of India because of two consecutive years of drought. According to the data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), of the 12,602 persons, 8,007 were farmers or cultivators,...
More »Dr. Kavita Rao, professor at National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), interviewed by Supriya Sharma (Scroll.in)
-Scroll.in The author of a paper published by a research institute under the Ministry of Finance expands on its conclusions. The drying up of cash has thrown the lives of millions of Indians in disarray. But many facing hardship support the government’s move. In Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, a farmer who did not have cash to buy seeds and fertilisers, said, “Now when rich people deposit money in the bank, the income tax people...
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