Last week, a day after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
announced Rs 10,512 crore package for Maharashtra’s farmers while
refusing to declare a complete loan waiver, Vishal Pawar, a farmer in
Vidarbha’s Yavatmal district ended his life on Thursday.
Pawar
left a suicide note addressed to the district’s guardian minister,
Sanjay Rathod, in which he mentioned the burden of crop failure and
expressed his last wish: a loan waiver.
About 2,590
farmers from across Maharashtra have committed suicide from January to
October 2015, the highest number of suicides since 2001. Data of last
two months is yet to be compiled. In 2006, 2,376 farmers had ended their
lives.
Source:- The Hindu, 21-Dec-2015
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