02-15-2008, 11:20 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Package To Address Indebtedness Of Farmers Soon: PM
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About 2 years ago PM came to Maharashtra and made grandiose promises. The affected farmers have yet to see any relief. Meanwhile the project on new airport in Vidharba region for Madame President's been kicked off and the Agriculture minister's (who's coincidently from Maharashtra) is raking record profits from his full time moon lighting job as BCCI head honcho.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Came across some good numbers on web by an Indian blogger:
Farmers and Numbers: Part III<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Update:
Farmers and Numbers: Part IV
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->To recap our farmer suicide related coverage so far, the salient takeaway points are:
Media interest in farmer suicide peaked during the NDA regime, although farmer suicides were happening at an alarming rate for at least a decade prior to that.
During the intense media frenzy surrounding farmer suicides in Andhra Pradesh (Chandra Babu's time), the media was totally ignoring neighboring Karnataka, which would later beat the Nadu stats about 2:1.
There was another mini peak in media interest during the early part of 2007 when the PM relief package was announced. The package didn't work as well as expected. An exasperated Vilas Rao Deshmukh (Maharashtra CM), called the farmers - lazy.
It looks like Vidarbha is well on its way to break all previous records. Also, Y.S. Rajashekhar Reddy, the current CM of Andhra Pradesh is all set to give Chandra Babu Naidu an innings defeat (more suicides in one term than two terms of Naidu combined).
Farmer suicides haven't made it to a lead story on the secular media since the Gujarat elections. Presumably there are other important news to cover.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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About 2 years ago PM came to Maharashtra and made grandiose promises. The affected farmers have yet to see any relief. Meanwhile the project on new airport in Vidharba region for Madame President's been kicked off and the Agriculture minister's (who's coincidently from Maharashtra) is raking record profits from his full time moon lighting job as BCCI head honcho.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Came across some good numbers on web by an Indian blogger:
Farmers and Numbers: Part III<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Update:
Farmers and Numbers: Part IV
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->To recap our farmer suicide related coverage so far, the salient takeaway points are:
Media interest in farmer suicide peaked during the NDA regime, although farmer suicides were happening at an alarming rate for at least a decade prior to that.
During the intense media frenzy surrounding farmer suicides in Andhra Pradesh (Chandra Babu's time), the media was totally ignoring neighboring Karnataka, which would later beat the Nadu stats about 2:1.
There was another mini peak in media interest during the early part of 2007 when the PM relief package was announced. The package didn't work as well as expected. An exasperated Vilas Rao Deshmukh (Maharashtra CM), called the farmers - lazy.
It looks like Vidarbha is well on its way to break all previous records. Also, Y.S. Rajashekhar Reddy, the current CM of Andhra Pradesh is all set to give Chandra Babu Naidu an innings defeat (more suicides in one term than two terms of Naidu combined).
Farmer suicides haven't made it to a lead story on the secular media since the Gujarat elections. Presumably there are other important news to cover.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->