Chapter 8
Poverty in India!
Poverty is on increase, even after six decades of freedom from the invaders.
Only the rate of increase of poverty has come down slightly. Several developed world hug our leaders in order to keep the production establishments alive.
If Our country is not rich, no one from developed countries would ever hug our leaders! But, at what cost?
World’s extreme poor
A third of them are India citizen!
(The times of India News item)
Maharashtra crosses 60,000 farm suicides
At least ten farmers have killed themselves every day, on average, for a straight ten years in the rich state of Maharashtra. Nation-wide the farm suicides total nears the 300,000-mark, as the data of the National Crime Records Bureau show.
Posted on July 15, 2014 by P Sainath in Agrarian crisis, Farmer Suicides A total of 2,96,438 farmers have committed suicide in India since 1995