@ranjeet @dravidianhero
This happened in a village in the Adilabad district of Northern TG!
Too many Telugus in both states are addicted to liquor..
![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
.
No wonder
KCR wants to provide cheap govt. subsidized liquor which would be sold from govt. outlets to the people for their "good health" ....[it's vote-bank politics]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
& in other news related to TG politics, here is an article from chitra subramaniam on KCR's trip to China while numerous farmers are committing suicide, though I support KCR's trip to China,she does make some fair points in this article especially related to the apathy of the govt. officials towards the farmers
KCR in China – between private jets and farmer suicides
The world’s best speechwriters cannot spin this one. The irony is cruel.
Chitra Subramaniam| Wednesday, September 9, 2015 - 19:33
Limbaiah was probably travelling to Telengana’s capital Hyderabad at about the same time that the Chief Minister of the state K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) was boarding a private jet for a 10-day visit to China.
On Wednesday morning Limbaiah, a farmer from Nizamabad who had travelled to Hyderabad was found hanging from an electric pole near a temple. The police suspect that
Limbaiah joins the growing list of farmer-suicides in drought-stricken areas like Karimnagar, Khammam, Adilabad, Warangal, to name a few. One report says there were 19 suicides in 72 hours. Read our report
here.[on the website]
There was a controversy as the KCR was preparing to leave, but it was not about his people dying of poor crops and debts. The brouhaha was about the 50-seater Bombardier that was pressed into service to ferry the CM at a cost of Rs. 2 crore. The executive jet is known for its luxurious innards and an entertainment centre with state of the art screens.
As we write,
the Chief Minister will be attending a regional meeting of the Switzerland-based World Economic Forum (WEF) where he will be meeting his counterparts from other countries as well as business leaders. He has been invited to speak at a meeting of “new champions” and will address the meeting on “emerging markets at crossroads.” The world’s best speechwriters cannot spin this one. The irony is cruel.
K Chandrashekar Rao with the Founder & Chairman of World Economic Forum Mr. Klaus Schwab.
Indian politicians attending such meetings make one critical mistake and they do it repeatedly. They think their interlocutors are as clueless as they sometimes are.
It is highly possible that people KCR will be meeting and asking to invest in India will be better informed than even all his team put together. The potential investors may not know about Limbaiah, but they will know about the drought that is ravaging the state and which Telengana refuses to acknowledge. They may try to sell bottled water.
I have sat in on many confidential meetings between CEOs and heads of state and governments in Davos. I have sat on the other side watching my own country people hide the elephant in the room. In another life, that was my job – assessing risks including political and market risk.
Rare is the Indian politician or businessperson who can walk into a room-full of strangers (without an entourage and factotums in tow) and make a pitch for the country or their business.
Telengana officials admitted last week that some 409 farmers had killed themselves since the state was born in June 2014. Members of the civil society say it could be as many as 1200. The increase in farmer suicides is attributed to the Chief Minister’s recent declaration that the government had no plans to declare drought in the state till the kharif season ended on September 30 and the jet with the fancy toilets and custom-made seats has landed after the China trip.
The Rs. 2 crore spent on the jet or the ten crore that the trip may cost is irrelevant. Limbaiahs across domains and sectors of economic activity in India are a reality. Till that penny drops, we will remain poor and under-developed.
KCR in China – between private jets and farmer suicides | The News Minute
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
THE DEEPENING AGRARIAN CRISIS
THE DEEPENING AGRARIAN CRISIS
Hyderabad:
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Farmer suicides on the rise, but who's counting?
1,500 Ryots End Lives In T, AP In 12 Months
Fast shrinking acreage coupled with an irregular monsoon and steep investments has led to an alarming rise in the rate of farmer suicides in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh once popular as the rice bowl of India. Rough estimates indicate that as many as 1,500 farmers from the two states committed suicide over the past 12 months alone, even as government records suggest otherwise.
In the nascent state of Telangana, for instance, the total number of farmer deaths is believed to be a high 1,300, while the authorities insist that the figure isn't more than 409. Similarly , t
he official count in AP is just about 37. However, the opposition there maintains that in reality, at least 197 farmers have taken the extreme step so far.
Whatever be the absolute figures, the fact remains that two successive deficit monsoons have spelt doom for agriculturalists in both states.
In fact, with reservoirs and irrigation tanks running dry , groundwater levels rapidly plummeting and sale of spurious seeds, pesticides and fertilizers picking up pace, experts fear that the forthcoming months might witness a further spurt in suicides as the Kharif season draws to a close by December.
“
Most farmers who committed suicide were cultivating commercial crops like cotton and maize, and water-intensive paddy . An analysis of the profile of farm victims reveals that they had been depressed due to mounting debts and no sign of early recovery . Private moneylenders wreaked havoc in the countryside charging high interest rates. Also, the government failed to rein in private financiers,“ said farmer rights activist G Srinivasa Rao.
Incidentally , heavy borrowing from moneylenders is what led to a surge in famer suicides in undivided AP post 2007, said experts. The change in cropping pattern and erratic rainfall or prolonged drought only made matters worse.
“The life of a farmer is intertwined by sudden hailstorm and drought, which causes heavy financial loss.
Since a majority of the farmers in AP and Telangana own less than two acres of land, a little change in the climatic conditions can spell doom for their crops. The Telugu states have been known to face a drought-like situation every two or three years. Improper planning by the governments has added to farmers' woes,“ said Rythu Sangham leader S Malla Reddy .
Cashing in on their miseries is the political class that's found new ground to trade charges.
However, neither the ruling party nor the main opposition party in either state has come out with a constructive solution to solve the problem.
TENANT FARMER COMMITS SUICIDE
Nizamabad: A tenant farmer committed suicide at Dandepally village of Navipet village of Nizambad mandal on Wednesday. According to police, C Narsingrao, 54, took four acres of land on lease for cultivation and sowed paddy and other crops in the land. But due to inadequate rains, the crops dried up. He borrowed Rs 1.50 lakh from private money lenders two years ago but was unable to pay even interest on the loan. He reportedly told the lenders that he would be able to pay back some of the amount after this crop season but with weather not cooperating, he chose to kill himself. His body was found hanging from a tree near his house in the village, the police said.They have registered a case of death under suspicious circumstances and sent the body to the government hospital for a post-mortem. TNN
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
oh & regarding the farm loan waiver scam which happened under the new TG govt. & which it is currently investigating & waiting to catch those who fooled the govt.
Am with KCR in catching the culprits
Bankers under lens in loan waiver scam - The Times of India
Irregular dealings
* The finance department says the loan waiver fraud may cross Rs 1,000 crore as against the initial estimation of Rs 850 crore
* Some farmers have availed more than Rs 1 lakh as loan waiver with different accounts in the same banks
* According to preliminary inquiries, some persons who are not farmers availed the loan waiver by procuring fake passbooks with the help of village revenue officers
* Of the Rs 8,346 crore released to the banks by the government, only loans worth Rs 7,996 crore given out as fresh loan