Why the political leadership and the opposition, the Help NGO's remain unconcerned to the plight of the ordinary citizen, whether one is farmer or tribal or minority or any other weaker and helpless section of society ?
Its most terrific, even after six decades of our own rule, so many Five Year Plan programme, many structural reforms on most of sectors, including priority sector lending and banking reforms, we still find the results are more on paper and records, than benefitting to ordinary people, when more than 3/4 th of the population's condition has not changed .
Most of the implementing agencies are basically controlled by the political leadership, who wakes up twice usually ,first, few months ahead of election or second when any law and order problem is created by the sufferers or the opposition making an issue out of that. Ironically it still remains an half hearted effort, that ends fast, once the media glare is over.
The media report said, "Seven More Farmers Commit Suicide in Vidarbha region", in several villages of Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region since Thursday.
"Bothbodan village sarpanch Balasaheb Chavan, where Rathod ended his life by swallowing poison on Thursday, said that the desperate farmer had five acres of land and most of his crops, particularly raw cotton and soyabean, were destroyed in unseasonal heavy rains this kharif season and since the crops failed, he couldn’t pay the Rs. 2 lakh loan taken from banks and private money lenders. He was depressed because no one would lend again to a defaulter".
Village sarpanch Balasaheb Chavan said, "Rathod was the 24th victim of agrarian crisis in the village since 2005 and added,“The farmers suicides continue in the village despite the discourses of spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and a visit by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi,the government has done nothing to stop farmers from taking the desperate step. Farmers are not getting crop loans from banks and crops do not fetch them good prices,” .
Resident collector Yavatmal Rajendra Deshmukh acknowledged, "in Yavatmal, where four suicides have been reported in the past 24 hours, more than 200 farmers ended their lives since January this year".
It is reported that as many as 700 farmers have committed suicide due to crippling debts and crop failure since January this year in Vidarbha region, but no official confirmed what led to the fresh round of suicides, the toll has risen to 43 this month, while it was 74 farmers in October.
Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti, that has been documenting farmers’ suicides in the region said, “The state and central governments are very casual about the issue and do not seem interested in formulating a long-term policy to prevent farmer suicides,”.
India Rural Development Report 2012-13 as on September this year says, "About 1.98 lakh farmers committed suicide in India between 2001 and 2012 as the benefits of high growth failed to trickle down to the rural areas. Indebtedness and lenders confiscating land have been attributed as the main causes of the farmers’ deaths".
While most of such suicides taking place in agrarian Central India, about two-thirds of the farmer suicides were reported from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
INDIA HONEST warns that the Reformist Manmohan Singh and shouting Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, should act that shows result on ground level even where no election is pending any time soon, instead of throwing false data and plans for Food Security in the parliament. What food security means in a country, where food producers are forced to commit suicide in such a large numbers, months after months ?