TIRUPATI: Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV) and Human Rights Discussion board (HRF) have demanded that snort government prolong financial abet to families of farmers who have committed suicide but have now not yet purchased financial compensation from the snort as envisaged below G.O. 43.
A 3-member reality-finding crew comprising RSV snort committee member B. Kondal, HRF snort government committee member Okay. Madan Sekhar and HRF’s AP and Telangana coordination committee member V.S. Krishna visited eight families of farmers, who had committed suicide in Tirupati and Chittoor districts, to resolve reasons for their suicides and snort government’s response thereafter.
The eight families are unfold across three earnings divisions of Tirupati, Chittoor and Nagari and five mandals of Okay.V.B. Puram, Nindra, Vijayapuram, Puttur and Karvetinagaram. The reality-finding crew acknowledged their inquiries printed that amongst the eight families, family of finest one lady farmer – Okay. Jayanti of Agarampeta village in Nindra mandal – had purchased Rs. 7 lakh ex-gratia below G.O 43.
The seven farmers who committed suicide are T. Venkateswara Reddy of Karlapudi, D. Elumalai of Srinivasapuram, M. Raghupathi of Kalikapuram. S. Bhoopalayya of TKM Peta, Okay. Mohanachari and C. Venu of Aare, and M. Bhaskar of Venugopalapuram. The federal government has now not paid any compensation to their families.
“In all these cases, there is correlation between farm-linked operations and financial injure, in the end main to suicide. Farmers pause their lives as a result of institutional credit now not being accessible. This ends in their reliance on personal cash lenders, main to high indebtedness and injure,” acknowledged HRF’s coordination committee member Krishna. He acknowledged that despairing farmers pause their lives both by keen pesticide or hanging themselves, as they’re unable to repay their taken at high curiosity rates.
Krishna identified that families of these seven farmers have proof of land ownership recorded in their pattadar passbook. About a of them had additionally taken land on tenancy to eke out their living. He charged that the RDO-headed three-member verification and certification committee, or the mandal-stage committee with MRO as chairman, failed to discuss about with the villages and fix a matter to with families of farmers who had committed suicide to resolve info as mandated below G.O. 43. The reality-finding committee demanded that the government gain concrete measures to be sure that every cases of farmers’ suicides are enquired into at the earliest and justice performed to surviving families.
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