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Kin of suicide farmers staged dharna at Bhongir Collectorate
Kin of farmers who committed suicide urged District Collector Anita Ramachandran to order a probe into the suicides and render them justice.
Rythu Swarajya Vedika stage a dharna, demand probe into the suicides
​Bhongir: Kin of farmers who committed suicide urged District Collector Anita Ramachandran to order a probe into the suicides and render them justice.
On Monday, the family members of deceased farmers, under the aegis of Rythu Swarajya Vedika, staged a dharna before the Collectorate and demanded immediate payment of compensation to them.
Later, they met the Collector and submitted a memorandum of their demands to her. Meanwhile, Swaraj Vedika leaders Kondal Reddy and Nimmappa informed to Collector that officials concerned identified 14 out of 76 deaths as farmer suicides.
Of them, majority were tenant farmers. They further informed that none of the family of the farmers got Rs 20,000 under National Family Benefit Scheme for conducting last rites of the dead farmers.
Demanding an inquiry into the suicides, they urged Collector to at least issue the AIY cards to all the victim families under food security scheme.
They also demanded issue of loan eligibility cards to all eligible tenant farmers under Tenant Farmers Act -2011, to facilitate them to get loans from banks for cultivation.
Stating that injustice was done to tenant farmers during farmer loan waiver scheme, they requested the Collector to do justice to them at least through free fertiliser scheme.
Responding to their demands, Ramachandran promised of probe and said that identification of farmers’ suicides would be done at mandal and divisional levels.
Apart from that, children of all 76 victim farmers would be admitted in various residential schools and colleges on humanitarian grounds.
So also, a wide publicity would be given in the district on the issue of loan eligibility cards for the welfare of tenant farmers in the district.
She also assured the leaders of Swarajya Vedika that officials concerned will take care of tenant farmers while identifying the members under government's-proposed free fertiliser scheme.
Farmer leaders and family members of deceased farmers participated in the programme
