6 more Vidharbha farmers suicide, Man in lock-up hangs himself,

Farmer Suicides in Vidharbha

2001- 52 deaths by suicide
2002- 104
2003-148
2004-447
2005-445
2006-1448
2007- 1246
2008- 1268
2009- 916
2010- 748
2011- 418( till Aug 26th ,2011)

6 more farmers commit suicide in Vidarbha in last 48 hours
Pradip Kumar Maitra, Hindustan Times
Nagpur, August 25, 2011
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First Published: 20:09 IST(25/8/2011)
Last Updated: 20:10 IST(25/8/2011)

At a time when the Anna-tide has swept the people across the country against the anti-corruption campaign, sadly, the agrarian crisis continues to take a heavy toll on farmers in Vidarbha. Unable to put up with crop failure, crippling debts and not getting remunerative price for their
produce, six more distressed cotton-growers have committed suicide in Vidarbha over the last 48 hours.

Reports reaching Nagpur on Thursday said six cotton growers Kaniram Jadhav of Krishna Nagar (Yavatmal district), Pramod Gawande of Lotwada, Puroshottam Pakhan of Muradevi (both in Amravati), Nitin Fale, Masa (Akola), Sheikh Anwar, Pangarkhed (Buldhana) and Santosh Raut of Malegaon (Washim), ended their lives in the last two days.

With these, the farmers' suicide toll has risen to 44 this month while the figure was 52 in July. As many as 418 farmers have committed suicide because of agrarian crisis in Vidarbha since January 2011.

Talking to Hindustan Times, Shravan Hardikar, the district collector of Yavatmal, one of the worst hit districts in the region, admitted that the rate of farmers' suicide has increased this month in the district. "We are trying our best to prevent such thing in the district," he said.

The institutional banks have disbursed around Rs 650-crore crop loan in the current kharif season as against the target of over Rs 900-crore. "Some nationalised banks are not cooperating in this regard and have been issued a stern warning. These banks have been directed to meet the target of disbursing crop loan to needy farmers," Hardikar said.

He informed that there were reports of 25 farmers' suicide this month in Yavatmal. "We are verifying facts whether these cases were related with agrarian crisis or not," he said.

Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti said that the growing trend of farmers' suicide is alarming. However, nobody is listening it in the wake of Hazare's fast for Jan Lokpal bill. This sensitive issue was overshadowed by Anna's agitation across the country.

"It is pathetic that Anna, who has been fighting for a good cause of anti-corruption, but never bothered about the vital issue of farmers' suicide in Vidarbha where an average two farmers commit suicide every day," he said. The veteran Gandhian crusader did not even speak about on wanton corruption by government officials and politicians while implementing the Prime Minister and state government relief packages of over Rs 6000-crore to bailout the distressed farmers of Vidarbha, Tiwari said.

The vicious circle of loans and exploitation by moneylenders and the powers-that-be, doesn't seem to be addressed by Anna Hazare's anti-corruption campaign. The farmers at large, though see a ray of hope in Anna, but those deeply caught in this vicious circle, are unable to cope up with farm distress any more.

"We are insisting that at least the government should treat these distressed farmers as BPL families so that they can get the food grain benefit from the government under the public distribution system to help minimise the farmers' suicide," Tiwari said. However, the government is not doing anything in this regard, he rued.
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Man in lock-up hangs himself(DNA)


A youth detained by the police from Sativali village, committed suicide in Gorai Pada chowkie on Wednesday night.

Badal Kumar Shetty, 23, a resident of Velchi Pada at Sativali village, was detained by the Manikpur police on suspicion that he had kidnapped a 16-year-old girl from his locality.

According to the police, the girl’s parents had lodged a missing complaint and suspected that Shetty had kidnapped her because they were having an affair.

Shetty was brought to Gorai Pada police chowky for questioning and was put in a lock-up along with another criminal.

Before two police constables could start interrogating him, they got information of an accident and had to rush to the spot.

When the constables returned, the other criminal in Shetty’s lock-up told them that Shetty had locked himself in the toilet for a long time.
They broke open the toilet door and saw Shetty’s body hanging from the toilet window.Badal had committed suicide by hanging himself with his trousers.

“He was brought to the police chowkie at 8.25pm andwas found dead at 10.30pm,” said Chandrakant Jadhav, senior inspector of Manikpur police station.

“We have sent the body for post-mortem. Shetty might have committed suicide fearing police action against him as he was in love with a minor girl, who has gone missing. We have registered an accidental death case,” added Jadhav.


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Man hangs self in Babu's Mhada flat

A 33 year old man was found hanging from a fan in a Mhada housing colony flat in Pratiksha Nagar , Sion on thursday 25th aug 2011. Ankit Jain who was staying in Flat No H 18 might have committed suicide two days ago, according to sources. The flat belongs to anant Khalse, principal Secretary in the state legislature.

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Orissa youth Arun Kumar Das ,fasting for Anna's Jan Lokpal Bill/anti-graft campaign, dies and Ahmedabad's Anna, 62 yr old Chandrakant Barot was admitted to Hospital. In yet another development Dinesh Yadav, an Anna Hazare fan tried self-immolation and is battling for his life in a hospital in Delhi.
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Parasmuni who took the life-long vow of deeksha (monkhood) 40 years ago completed 2360 days( in seperate spells) of fasting and continues to survive.

Four Vidharba farmers commit suicide

Four more farmers commit suicide in Vidarbha in last 48 hours
Pradip Kumar Maitra, Hindustan Times
Nagpur, August 12, 2011
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First Published: 21:09 IST(12/8/2011)
Last Updated: 21:10 IST(12/8/2011)
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Agrarian crisis claimed four more distressed farmers of Vidarbha over the last two days. Reports reaching here this evening said that among the four victims, two were from cotton growing Yavatmal district -- the black soil region -- where over 100 farmers have committed suicide due to
crippling debts and crop failure this year alone. The two other victims one each was from Washim and Gadchiroli district.

The farmers are desperately struggling to meet rising input costs. Crop failure means there is no way to repay existing loans that will only grow with high interest rates.

These farmers committed suicide after receiving a severe blow when their first sowing washed way following the recent incessant rains. They then took up resowing operations from the loans obtained from private money lenders. Their fields needed getting rid of weeds and they had no money, the reports said.

The victims were identified as: Ramji Shelke (70) of Pardi village, Vilas Pawar (42), Dhanora (both Yavatmal district), Balu Jadhav (32), Asola (Washim) and Namdeo Watti (45) of Wadgoan in Gadchiroli district. Among them, Shelke, Pawar and Watti killed themselves by swallowing pesticide while Jadhav committed suicide by hanging himself.

"Vilas Pawar was distressed because of re-sowing the crops as once his sowing washed away after last month’s heavy rains. Non-availability of funds for cleaning the field and using pesticide had left him deeply worried," says Mohan Jadhav, a farm leader of Yavatmal.

Jadhav alleged that lot of nationalized banks are not giving crop loans this time to farmers that led them to approach private money lenders to charge high interests.

Shravan Hardikar, the district collector of Yavatmal admitted that few nationalized banks refused to provide crop loans to defaulters. “We have given ultimatum to them and give them target for disbursing crop loans,” he added. Hardikar, claimed that over Rs 600-crore crop loans were disbursed among farmers this kharif season.

Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti, a farmer’s pressure group, said that debt-ridden farmers were committing suicide out of frustration and inability to pay loans borrowed from banks and private money lenders.

"The region has seen nine farmers committing suicide this month and the figure may go up," he informed and informed that the figure was 52 last month. "The lack of timely government intervention is evident as Vidarbha continues to post the most number of farm suicides in the country for the 14th successive year," Tiwari alleged.

With the deaths of these four farmers, the government has put the toll at 383 in the region since January 2011. However, Tiwari claimed the figure was 471 this year.

Spike in suicides Times of India & H T report on NCRB data for 2009

'Students are not taught life skills or how to manage emotions. Globalisation beginning in early 90's, Westernization of Indian society, breakdown of Indian values and the break up of the joint family system,opening up of indian society has caused students to lose hope and experience debilitating failures as a result of the huge clash of cultures and inability to cope with the same'

Student suicides accross the country in the last 4 years


Student suicides have increased 15.43% from 2006 to 2008 and 11.57% since 2008

2006----- 5857

2007------ 6248

2008----- 6060

2009 ----- 6761

State wise break up for 2009

West bengal 870

Maharashtra 812

Maharashtra and West BEngal account for 25% of student suicides in the country

Citywise distribution of suicides

Delhi ---148

Mumbai ----82

Bangalore----136

Kolkata ----21

Chennai----91


In 2009 every day 18 students committed suicide

In 2006 the figure was 16

The number of student suicides increased by 6% in 2007 and dipped by 3% in 2008

West bengal, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka account for 55.1% suicides in the country
870 student suicides reported from west bengal in 2009 accounting for 5.9% of suicides in the state

wheras Uttarakhand had 40 student suicides accounting for 11.7% of suicides occuring in the state


No of suicides due to exam fear 2010

no of suicides below the age of 14 yrs---2951

no of suicides between 15 and 29 yrs---43920


348 suicides and 418 accidental deaths per day in India in 2009

Accidental deaths increased by 7.3% in 2009 s compared to 2008 while suicides rose by 1.7 % in 2009 as compared to 2008

Family problems, illness top reasons for suicide

Of 17, 368 farmer suicides in 2009 , an increase of 7% over 2008- Maharashtra accounted for 2872 and ranked no1 for the 10th year running.

Andhra PraDESH HAD 2414 FARMER SUICIDES, Karnataka had 2282,chattisgarh- 1802,Madhya Pradesh -1395

Tamil nadu reported the biggest increase from 512 in 2008 to 1060 in 2009