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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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