Every day farmers of Vidarbha are committing suicides & more or less same trend is seen in entire India. As per one survey, more than 40000 farmers have committed suicides in entire India in the past one & half decade. The figure has become alarming. It seems nobody bothers since farmers suicides have become daily affair.
Few years back farmers were happy community. They were earning sufficient & were leaving dignified life as they did not have to face inflation. Farmers by nature are simple & straight people. Now they cannot cope up with rising inflation & they prefer to die instead of facing society as a dejected person. They feel ashamed in the society if they are not able to repay the loans which forces them to take the root of suicides. The reasons of suicides are purely economical policies of the govt. The policy of LPG i.e. Liberalization, Privatization & Globalization have hit the poor sections of society bitterly. It gave the farmers suicides in legacy. Maharashtra govt has set up a committee to find out the reasons of suicide. A fat report was submitted blaming on failures of monsoon, uncontrollable pests, reduction in sizes of land holdings due to population increase, increase in the cost of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides etc. etc.
Real reason of suicides is rising cost of living which is a byproduct of LPG. No doubt , there is economic progress of India but it has benefited Industrialists & urban higher middle class. The ill effects of LPG have hit the poor sections of society. Profit margins of Industrialists have multiplied but the incomes of farmers gone downwards. It has become difficult for farmers to cope up with the inflation & they get trapped in the vicious circle of debt. Govt has not come with any concrete policy to counter the affected sections of the society suffered by LPG policy. Another example is privatization has fully stopped the recruitment of SC/STs. .No govt has bothered about ill effects of LPG.
Farmers are dying but no politicians are bothering. In fact the top politicians & Industrialists are multiplying their wealth & farmers are becoming poorer & poorer day by day. They have become insensitive towards the sorrows & pains of the poor. I recall the sensitivity of Freedom fighter Sane Guruji . This great man has written mind boggling books like Shyamchi Aai & also gone in jail while fighting for freedom movement of India. But independence has not brought any relief to the lives of the poors. It was unbearable for him to see the poverty of the people & he preferred to die by consuming a poison. No one is asking today’s politician to die but at least become fractionally sensitivs towards the lives of the poor.
Bodhisattwa Shendre
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ReplyDeletesince 1997 2,18967 farmers committed suicides ar per official data,pl correct it
Its sad but very true subject in india,The person who brings the most fundamental thing,food to u is not having enough food for himself,Cant even imagine the pressure ,stress,trauma he must be going which forces him to take step like suicide,As u correctly Said LPG has not only affected poor class of society but it has also hammered the growth of Entrepreneurship in India,It was like a quick booster for development which we are paying now,India has become a foreign driven country,where this companies invest just because of cheap labour,which actually are farmers who left farming and joins this industries in hope of better life,second aspect i found is the mediators like "DALAL" who exploits the farmer,buy buying from them at very low rates n sell it in markets at higher rates,This Dalals gets the major part of the income though he is not contributing to the production of the food products,solution i find is the EDUCATION, They could be awaken only by means of education,They himself have to come out of this trouble,no politician no film actor,no industrialist is going to help them
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