-Hindustan Times Mumbai: Just how much debt does it take for a farmer in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra to take the extreme step of killing himself? The shocking findings of a new study reveal it could be as little as Rs 10,000. Days after fresh Data from the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) revealed that Maharashtra has the highest number of suicides by distressed farmers among all states, a new analysis...
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Here's proof that poor get gallows, rich mostly escape -Himanshi Dhawan & Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The fact that our legal system is skewed against the poor and marginalized is well-known. And to that extent, it's only expected that they get harsher punishment than the rich. But here are figures that tell the full story. A first of its kind study, which has analyzed Data from interviews with 373 death row convicts over a 15-year period, has found three-fourths of those given...
More »The measure of poverty -C Rangarajan & S Mahendra Dev
-The Indian Express Estimates based on SECC and NSS Data have different purposes. Recently, the government released Data from the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011. There has been comment that hereafter, we need not have consumption-based poverty estimates using NSS (National Sample Surveys) data. It is thought that SECC Data will alone be enough to estimate poverty and deprivation. Here, we briefly examine the differences between the two and clarify that...
More »Petty cultivators & agricultural labourers worst victims of farm suicide
There is a class angle to farmers' suicide in India. Close to three-quarter of farmers who committed suicide in 2014 were small and marginal farmers. ‘Bankruptcy or indebtedness’ accounted for one-fifth of total farmers’ suicide during 2014. The report entitled Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India 2014 by the National Crime Records Bureau of Ministry of Home Affairs clarifies the doubt that indebtedness and bankruptcy were major causes of farmers' suicide,...
More »Maharashtra tops 2014 suicide chart
-The Indian Express On average, 15 people chose death every hour across the country; one out of six victims housewives. On an average around 15 persons committed suicide every hour across the country in 2014, according to Data released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). As many as 1.31 lakh persons committed suicide across the country last year, with Maharashtra having the highest number of cases in any state. Among major...
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