ANOTHER HAPLESS FARMER ENDS LIFE IN BALANGIR
Monday, 01 April 2013 |
SUDHIR MISHRA | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
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Even as
the State Government has been making tall claims of taking steps for evelopment
of agriculture and farmers, yet cases of farmers’ suicide are reported at
regular intervals from Balangir district.
In the latest instance,
Pabitra Pradhan (48) of Santika village in Agalpur block committed suicide on
Saturday evening by consuming poison.
Fellow villager Nepal
Pradhan said, “I found him (Pabitra) in an unconscious state when I went to
field yesterday evening. We some villagers first brought him to the Loisingha
Hospital, where we came to know that he consumed some poisonous substance. From
there, we took him to the Balangir District Headquarters Hospital, where he
died.”
Reports said Pabitra’s
financial condition was not satisfactory and he was going through a difficult
time. Although he had two acres Bahal land, he mortgaged it to meet the expense
for treatment for his kidney problem in Waltaire in October 2011. Moreover, he
faced crop failure in 2011, which ruined his economic backbone.
Meanwhile, he had to
marry off his two daughters. He had incurred private loans amounting to about
Rs 70,000 and a loan of Rs 30,000 from the local SCS. With this year’s crop
yield not being so good, he committed suicide due to financial burden, said
editor of magazine Navneeta Kshetrabasi Sahu.
Samajwadi Party district
president Arun Mishra said, “In the liberalisation era, both agriculture and
farmers in India are going through upheavals. Agriculture has become expensive.
Farmers are not getting remunerative prices of their produce. Unable to cope up
with the situation, poor farmers are committing suicide.”
According to president of
Indian Youth Congress Balangir Lok Sabha constituency Akash Mishra, farmer’s
suicides are taking place due to the anti-farmer policy of the Naveen Patnaik
Government. Farmers are forced to go in for distress sale of paddy due to an
unholy nexus between millers and corrupt officials. The loans of the deceased
farmers should be waived and a member of a deceased’s family be given
employment, he said.
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