-Hindustan Times In all the heat being generated by the government’s amendments to the land acquisition law, the tribals are being left out in the cold. In his Mann Ki Baat broadcast Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed himself to “My dear farmer brothers and sisters”. He did not include the tribals. Perhaps farmers are in the spotlight because the tragedy of farmers’ Suicides gives the opposition an emotive issue to raise in...
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Farmers are being punished to keep food prices low -Devinder Sharma
-ABP Live Some days back the death of Surjit Singh, who had met Rahul Gandhi a few days before he committed Suicide, once again brought the focus on the tragic but unresolved issue of farmer Suicides. A few days after Surjit Singh consumed sulphos tablets, another 36-year-old farmer, Baljinder Das Bairagi from Sangrur, hanged himself from a ceiling fan. He carried an outstanding loan of Rs 7-lakh. A survey done by three...
More »Farmers Find their Voice Through Radio in the Badlands of India -Stella Paul
-IPS News TIKAMGARH: Eighty-year-old Chenabai Kushwaha sits on a charpoy under a neem tree in the village of Chitawar, located in the Tikamgarh district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, staring intently at a dictaphone. “Please sing a song for us,” urges the woman holding the voice recorder. Kushwaha obliges with a melancholy tune about an eight-year-old girl begging her father not to give her away in marriage. The melody melts...
More »More housewives committing Suicide, NCRB records show -TCA Sharad Raghavan
-The Hindu ‘They juggle multiple tasks and are often unable to vent their frustration’ Fifteen people commit Suicide every hour in India, shows the most recent data by the National Crime Records Bureau. Of these, around 17 per cent are housewives. In contrast, Suicide by farmers makes up only 3 per cent of all Suicides. The NCRB divides the total Suicides into 10 professional categories — housewife, service (government), service (private), public sector...
More »Facing drought, Telangana shifts focus to dry crops -Bappa Majumdar
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: In a major policy shift that could shape the future of agriculture in Telangana, the government on Wednesday said it was getting ready to grow dry crops such as ragi and bajra in view of an impending drought after the killer heat wave in the region. Unseasonal rains in MarchApril had damaged Rabi crops in 75,000 hectares across nine districts of the state, forcing the government to...
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