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Farmer suicides

 


A farmer commits suicide every 1/2 hour in this country.
Ananda Ganesh Any reliable source of this information ?
Anantha Sayanan over 3 lakhs farmer suicides in (last) 17 years..which translates to 48 in a day and hence i deduced it as a suicide every half hour:-(
very reliable as it is from the NCRB (national crimes record bureau)..and that is govts stats..which is low IMO..there shud be more that goes unrecorded (like women do not have patta; many landless and leased operators. also many suiceds are not recorded)
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Komakkambedu Himakiran Anugula funny we have reliability of this information being ascertained!
May be we will wait for the world bank or imf to say and then believe it.
Saravana Perumal Balakrishnan The numbers don't include family members.
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  • Ramanjaneyulu GV
    Seeing all agitations govt stopped reporting the suicide deaths in India...Last report was 2015
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  • Kamlendra Pratap Singh
    Women are not counted as farmers. So their suicides don't count.
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  • Bharat Varma
    From ncrb.gov.in
    "The data for the report is collected by State Crime Records Bureaux (SCRBx) from the District Crime Records Bureaux (DCRBx) and sent to NCRB at the end of the year under reference. Data from mega-cities (cities having population of 10 lakh or more as per the latest census) is also collected separately. The first edition of 'Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India' pertains to the year 1967 and the latest edition of the report pertains to the year 2015."
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  • Sujatha Rajendran
    Late last year, two young men decided to live a month of their lives on the income of an average poor Indian. One of them, Tushar, the son of a police officer in Haryana, studied at the University of Pennsylvania and worked for three years as an investment banker in the US and Singapore. The other, Matt, migrated as a teenager to the States with his parents, and studied in MIT. Both decided at different points to return to India, joined the UID Project in Bengaluru, came to share a flat, and became close friends.
    The idea suddenly struck them one day. Both had returned to India in the vague hope that they could be of use to their country. But they knew the people of this land so little. Tushar suggested one evening — “Let us try to understand an ‘average Indian', by living on an ‘average income'.” His friend Matt was immediately captured by the idea. They began a journey which would change them forever.
    To begin with, what was the average income of an Indian? They calculated that India's Mean National Income was Rs. 4,500 a month, or Rs. 150 a day. Globally people spend about a third of their incomes on rent. Excluding rent, they decided to spend Rs. 100 each a day. They realised that this did not make them poor, only average. Seventy-five per cent Indians live on less than this average.
    The young men moved into the tiny apartment of their domestic help, much to her bemusement. What changed for them was that they spent a large part of their day planning and organising their food. Eating out was out of the question; even dhabas were too expensive. Milk and yoghurt were expensive and therefore used sparingly, meat was out of bounds, as were processed food like bread. No ghee or butter, only a little refined oil. Both are passionate cooks with healthy appetites. They found soy nuggets a wonder food — affordable and high on proteins, and worked on many recipes. Parle G biscuits again were cheap: 25 paise for 27 calories! They innovated a dessert of fried banana on biscuits. It was their treat each day.
    Restricted life
    Living on Rs.100 made the circle of their life much smaller. They found that they could not afford to travel by bus more than five km in a day. If they needed to go further, they could only walk. They could afford electricity only five or six hours a day, therefore sparingly used lights and fans. They needed also to charge their mobiles and computers. One Lifebuoy soap cut into two. They passed by shops, gazing at things they could not buy. They could not afford the movies, and hoped they would not fall ill.
    However, the bigger challenge remained. Could they live on Rs. 32, the official poverty line, which had become controversial after India's Planning Commission informed the Supreme Court that this was the poverty line for cities (for villages it was even lower, at Rs. 26 per person per day)?
    Harrowing experience
    For this, they decided to go to Matt's ancestral village Karucachal in Kerala, and live on Rs. 26. They ate parboiled rice, a tuber and banana and drank black tea: a balanced diet was impossible on the Rs. 18 a day which their briefly adopted ‘poverty' permitted. They found themselves thinking of food the whole day. They walked long distances, and saved money even on soap to wash their clothes. They could not afford communication, by mobile and internet. It would have been a disaster if they fell ill. For the two 26-year-olds, the experience of ‘official poverty' was harrowing.
    Yet, when their experiment ended with Deepavali, they wrote to their friends: “Wish we could tell you that we are happy to have our ‘normal' lives back. Wish we could say that our sumptuous celebratory feast two nights ago was as satisfying as we had been hoping for throughout our experiment. It probably was one of the best meals we've ever had, packed with massive amounts of love from our hosts. However, each bite was a sad reminder of the harsh reality that there are 400 million people in our country for whom such a meal will remain a dream for quite some time. That we can move on to our comfortable life, but they remain in the battlefield of survival — a life of tough choices and tall constraints. A life where freedom means little and hunger is plenty...
    Plenty of questions
    It disturbs us to spend money on most of the things that we now consider excesses. Do we really need that hair product or that branded cologne? Is dining out at expensive restaurants necessary for a happy weekend? At a larger level, do we deserve all the riches we have around us? Is it just plain luck that we were born into circumstances that allowed us to build a life of comfort? What makes the other half any less deserving of many of these material possessions, (which many of us consider essential) or, more importantly, tools for self-development (education) or self-preservation (healthcare)?
    We don't know the answers to these questions. But we do know the feeling of guilt that is with us now. Guilt that is compounded by the love and generosity we got from people who live on the other side, despite their tough lives. We may have treated them as strangers all our lives, but they surely didn't treat us as that way...”
    So what did these two friends learn from their brief encounter with poverty? That hunger can make you angry. That a food law which guarantees adequate nutrition to all is essential. That poverty does not allow you to realise even modest dreams. And above all — in Matt's words — that empathy is essential for democracy.
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  • Jataayu B'luru
    I tend to think that this is the data on suicides from rural areas, not necessarily 'farmer suicides', and that too, farmer suicides due to poverty or crop failure or loan distress. There are other reasons too, due to which rural folk take their own lives, just like humans in cities and other places. Yes, farmer suicides is among the most important and serious problems that the country has to address. But, make sure that the data is correct and accurate while reporting it.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      Please live in a village for 2 years. I think every Indian should. To have an authority to speak on India. Especially rural realities.
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    • Jataayu B'luru
      Well, I am just questioning the data for the accuracy and precision. Not to deny any fact or reality.
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    • Aparna Krishnan
      Why dont you question the under reposting which is the real fact ? Tenent farmers, agricultural labour, family etc whose living and deaths stay uncounted, officially. I am sorry, the question stems from clear urban ignorance and arrogance.
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      Jataayu B'luru
       Again amazed at the question. On re reading it.

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    • Rajesh Pandey
      You may not know that a renowned journalist Swaminathan S. Ankalesaria Iyer has been propagating (and has managed to convince a number of urbanites) that there is no relation between farm distress and suicides by farmers, by giving absurd examples of suicides in cities of Western countries.
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      • Aparna Krishnan
        There is no shortage of clowns and perverts. I have started trying to avoid them, as it drains all energies.
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      • Shyamala Sanyal
        The urban ,educated population all the way from you and I to Ambanis , Mallya etc are only 7% of the population. We think we constitute India .
        The large majority are unseen and unheard .
        We are deaf and blind and morally bankrupt
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      • Prakash Ramachanderan
        Shyamala Sanyal
        , where do we belong, certainly not in the 7%. Nor are we among the unseen and unheard.
        We are definitely not deaf and blind. We are the people who sit on the wall and scream. The unseen and unheard people also can see and hear. But do not scream. If they learn to be United and scream only then will their problems will get resolved.
        Why are we morally corrupt. If we admit it why are doing anything about it.
        People like 
        Anantha Sayanan
         are making efforts in linking the producers, the unheard or unseen people and the consumer, you and me. All you need to do is support and strengthen their efforts.
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      • Aparna Krishnan
        We are corrupt for many reasons. For one because we store for our tomorrows when there are hunger deaths today.
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