-The Indian Express Mumbai: The Maharashtra government is likely to bring farmers' suicides under insurance cover to enable higher financial compensation to the victims' families, state Agriculture Minister Eknath Khadse has told The Indian Express. The development comes at a time when the government is grappling with drought across 24,000 villages and an increasing number of farmer suicides is being reported from the Marathwada region. Statistics show that almost 85 to 90...
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Human Rights Commission steps in to resolve farmer suicide issue -Sudhir Suryawanshi
-DNA After the dna report, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRM) has asked Maharashtra government to address the farmers issues and look after the compensations package to farmers as well. After the dna report, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRM) has asked Maharashtra government to address the farmers issues and look after the compensations package to farmers as well. Dna had reported on January 30 that the desperate farmers are selling their...
More »Maharashtra farmer suicides: 50% of kin denied relief -Chittaranjan Tembhekar
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Families of nearly half of the farmers in Maharashtra who have committed suicide over the last four years are not eligible to get even the paltry Rs 1 lakh compensation thanks to government rules. Maharashtra, along with Tamil Nadu, WB, AP, Chhattisgarh and MP, registers a high number of farmer suicides. An RTI application by activist Jitendra Ghadge has revealed that of the total 5,698 suicides registered...
More »Budget 2015: The need for an overhaul in Indian agriculture sector -Ajeet Kumar
-Zee News Agriculture is consistently losing its importance in India's economic growth. The agriculture sector contributes to just 15 percent of India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but over 50 percent of the population is still dependent on it. The farm sector, including forestry and fishing, grew by 3.2 percent in the quarter ending September, as compared o 3.8 percent in previous quarter and 4.7 percent in 2013-14. For the entire financial...
More »About men -Vani S Kulkarni, Manoj K Pandey & Raghav Gaiha
-The Indian Express Although the prevalence of sexual violence in India is the lowest in the world (8.5 per cent in 2013), it affects 27.5 million women in the country. Rapes reported to the police as sexual violence surged from 39 per day to 93 per day in 2013. In Uttar Pradesh alone, five rapes occurred in 36 hours. Even these are underestimations, for two reasons. One is the exclusion of...
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