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Farmers and Farm widows protest on R-Day
TNN|Jan 26, 2013, 03.13 AM IST
NAGPUR: Even as six more cases ofsuicide by farmerswere
reported in the last three days in Vidarbha, hundreds of farmers are
expected to join a protest at Maregaon in Yavatmal, the worst-hit
district in the state's cotton belt that has borne the brunt of the farm
crisis.
The suicide toll has gone up to 20 in the first month of the New Year. According to theVidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti(VJAS)
which has been monitoring the farm suicides crisis, the victims were
identified as Dipak Awari of Vanojadevi village in Yavatmal, Baliram
Bharsakale of Sirsoli in Akola, Namdeo Misar of Doksarandi in Bhandara,
Jivan Kodape of Ramgoan and Vinay Kalpande of Masod in Amaravati and
Santosh Ganphade of Dhindasi in Chandrapur district.
Maregoan
was chosen as the venue for the protest because it was a year ago that a
parliamentary committee headed by Basudeb Acharya visited this village
to look into causes of the agrarian crisis. "But like many other
official inquiry reports that studied the situation of farmers in
distress in Vidarbha, the parliamentary report has also failed to move
the government," said Kishore Tiwari of VJAS.
"The
government has failed to provide food security, health care facility
and educational help to distressed farmers and families of deceased
farmers. The national commission for farmers (NCF) headed by M S
Swaminathan and Narendra Jadhav has made several recommendations in this
regard, but were ignored by the government," said Babytai Bais,
president of Vidarbha farmer's widows association.
The
protest is against the government policy which is completely apathetic
to this region while concentrating all attention on the drought
situation in five districts of western Maharashtra, she added.
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