Shocking: 42,480 farmers and daily wagers committed suicide last year

[Chakar The Great]

NEW DELHI: As many as 42,480 farmers and daily wagers committed suicide in 2019, an increase of about 6 per cent from the previous year, as the number of farmers committing suicide fell marginally while that of daily wagers increased 8 per cent.

According to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data on accidental deaths and suicides, 10,281 farmers committed suicide in 2019, down from 10,357 in 2018, whereas the figure for daily wagers went up to 32,559 from 30,132. The suicide rate in the deeply stressed farming sector accounted for 7.4 per cent of the total suicides in the country, resulting in deaths of 5,957 farmers and 4,324 agricultural labourers, the NCRB said in a report containing the latest data. The total number of suicides in the country increased to 139,123 in 2019 from 1,34,516 in 2018. I


n 2015, the NCRB had published elaborate data on farmer suicides, including the reasons for suicides. However, the report released by the bureau on Monday omitted these classifications and instead gave a break-up in terms of males and females.

In 2019, a total of 5,563 male farmers and 394 female farmers committed suicide while agricultural labourers included 3,749 males and 575 females, said the report. States and Union Territories such as West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Chandigarh, Daman & Diu, Delhi, Lakshadweep and Puducherry reported zero cases of farmers and agricultural labourers committing suicide. Among daily wage earners who committed suicide, 29,092 were male and 3,467 female. According to the NCRB, states and UTs which reported increase in suicides in 2019 over 2018 were Bihar (44.7%), Punjab (37.5%), Daman & Diu (31.4%), Jharkhand (25.0%), Uttarakhand (22.6%) and Andhra Pradesh (21.5%). Among cities, the suicide rate (13.9) was higher than the national rate (10.4), with Kollam in Kerala and Asansol in West Bengal reporting the highest suicides rate of 41.2 and 37.8 respectively.



“Out of the mega cities, the four metropolitan cities – Chennai (2,461), Delhi (2,423), Bengaluru (2,081) and Mumbai (1,229) have reported higher numbers of suicides. These four cities together have reported almost 36.6 per cent of the total suicides reported from 53 mega cities,” said the report. The highest proportion of suicide victims (23.3 per cent) were educated up to matriculation while only 3.7 per cent were graduates and above, said the report.



Source: Economic times

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

Why don't the PDF Indians see these figures? Where are the $500 billion Foreign Reserves being used in these economic matters?

 

[Chakar The Great]

Why don't the PDF Indians see these figures? Where are the $500 billion Foreign Reserves being used in these economic matters?

They just ignore it. There is big difference in what India portrays and what India actually is.

Same goes for their military might. They have been humiliated multiple times over the last 6 years on almost all borders. Yet the shameful Indians won't accept.

 

[jamahir]

Why don't the PDF Indians see these figures? Where are the $500 billion Foreign Reserves being used in these economic matters?

I have been saying for years on PDF that suicides by Indians for socio-economic reasons, whether by farmers or by students or by white collar professionals or their dependent family members, are very avoidable.

Unless there are three 40-foot anaconda snakes waiting outside those people's houses eager to gobble them and there is no escape, there shouldn't be any reason to commit suicide. It is a matter of sadness that these people do not find emotional and material support amongst their families, friends or civil society. They see no way out simply because the system does not provide for such support. What is the use of the country having a huge military and becoming the world's second largest importer of armaments if the internal system is corrupted ?

India is the world's most capitalist society where for a lot of people, and this has become applied in principle for others too, money is worshiped with a proper goddess for the purpose - Lakshmi. Why worship something that is not natural at all ? It is not uncommon for the field agents of micro-finance companies to tell the borrower farmers that if they cannot repay the loan ( plus severe interest ) they better jump into the village pond.

I have a saying which had to be the truth for the last seven decades in India : "Paisa sahoolat hona chahiye, zaroorat nahi" meaning "Money should be facility, not necessity".

I ask you, readers, in five or ten years time should money have the exalted position as now ? What about in Mars settlements in twenty years time ? Are not socialism and communism the automatic choice of social organization of human society because among other things they speak of abolishment of money system as we know it now in a large part of the world ?

@ps3linux @fitpOsitive @Naofumi @Joe Shearer @Bilal9 @Hamartia Antidote @Omar Al-Deek others too.

 

[jamahir]

@Indos , sorry, didn't tag you above.

 

[jamahir]

@Pan-Islamic-Pakistan , sorry, didn't tag you for above.

 

[beijingwalker]

Crazy, even death is better than being an Indian farmer.

 

[jamahir]

good riddance

Why ?

 

[PakSword]

This is really sad.

 

[PakSword]

good riddance

Do you have any shame? They are your countrymen. Show some sympathy at least if you can't provide any solution.

 

[Crystal-Clear]

@Rollno21
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ladakh chaiye ladakh

 

[Patriot forever]

@Rollno21
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ladakh chaiye ladakh

Isn't he the same member who used to have a display pic of Mansoor Pashteen and supported PTM and PLMN while pretending to be a Pakistani.

 

[Crystal-Clear]

Isn't he the same member who used to have a display pic of Mansoor Pashteen and supported PTM and PLMN while pretending to be a Pakistani.

i dont think so .
me to basss yahi poch raha is sey .
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ladakh chaiye ladakh ... kela miley ga .

 

[Omar Al-Deek]

I have been saying for years on PDF that suicides by Indians for socio-economic reasons, whether by farmers or by students or by white collar professionals or their dependent family members, are very avoidable.

Unless there are three 40-foot anaconda snakes waiting outside those people's houses eager to gobble them and there is no escape, there shouldn't be any reason to commit suicide. It is a matter of sadness that these people do not find emotional and material support amongst their families, friends or civil society. They see no way out simply because the system does not provide for such support. What is the use of the country having a huge military and becoming the world's second largest importer of armaments if the internal system is corrupted ?

India is the world's most capitalist society where for a lot of people, and this has become applied in principle for others too, money is worshiped with a proper goddess for the purpose - Lakshmi. Why worship something that is not natural at all ? It is not uncommon for the field agents of micro-finance companies to tell the borrower farmers that if they cannot repay the loan ( plus severe interest ) they better jump into the village pond.

I have a saying which had to be the truth for the last seven decades. "Paisa sahoolat hona chahiye, zaroorat nahi" meaning "Money should be facility, not necessity".

I ask you, readers, in five or ten years time should money have the exalted position as now ? What about in Mars settlements in twenty years time ? Are not socialism and communism the automatic choice of social organization of human society because among other things they speak of abolishment of money system as we know it now in a large part of the world ?

@ps3linux @fitpOsitive @Naofumi @Joe Shearer @Bilal9 @Hamartia Antidote @Omar Al-Deek others too.

say "NO" to Communism

 

[Imran Khan]

its just fine 2000 kids die daily with hunger or 120 farmers commit suicide daily its not an issue the issue is pakistan