07-11-2006, 04:23 PM
More farmer suicides in Karnataka than Vidarbha
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Vidarbha region in Maharashtra was the first to get a Rs 3,750-crore (Rs 37.50 billion) relief package from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but it was Karnataka that witnessed the maximum cases of suicide by farmers since 2000.
As per the figures of farmers' suicide compiled by the Union agriculture ministry on the basis of reports sent by different states, Maharashtra stands third.
From <b>2000-01 to 2005-06, around 8,600 farmers committed suicide in Karnataka, </b>while the figures stood over <b>2,000 in Andhra Pradesh for the same period</b>. In case of <b>Maharashtra, the government reported 981 farmer suicides between 2001 and 2005</b>.
So, what was it that drew the attention of the prime minister to Vidarbha first? A sharp spurt in suicide cases was reported from Vidarbha in the past six months. Unofficial figures put the estimated number of cases at around 600 in Vidarbha. But it was much worse in Andhra Pradesh as per official figures -- 1,068 farmers committing suicide in barely six months, from May 14, 2005 to November 11, 2005.
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Current nitiwits in power harping on reservations while our backbone is being weakend reminds of Nero playing fiddle while Rome burned.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Vidarbha region in Maharashtra was the first to get a Rs 3,750-crore (Rs 37.50 billion) relief package from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but it was Karnataka that witnessed the maximum cases of suicide by farmers since 2000.
As per the figures of farmers' suicide compiled by the Union agriculture ministry on the basis of reports sent by different states, Maharashtra stands third.
From <b>2000-01 to 2005-06, around 8,600 farmers committed suicide in Karnataka, </b>while the figures stood over <b>2,000 in Andhra Pradesh for the same period</b>. In case of <b>Maharashtra, the government reported 981 farmer suicides between 2001 and 2005</b>.
So, what was it that drew the attention of the prime minister to Vidarbha first? A sharp spurt in suicide cases was reported from Vidarbha in the past six months. Unofficial figures put the estimated number of cases at around 600 in Vidarbha. But it was much worse in Andhra Pradesh as per official figures -- 1,068 farmers committing suicide in barely six months, from May 14, 2005 to November 11, 2005.
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Current nitiwits in power harping on reservations while our backbone is being weakend reminds of Nero playing fiddle while Rome burned.