Despite CM’s orders,
forcible loan collections go on
ANANTAPUR: With the death of two more
young farmers, the number of farmers committing suicides in
Anantapur district in January has gone up to 12.
Harijan
Kullayappa of Mucchurami village and Nagi Reddy of Kamireddypalle
village in Dharmavaram mandal ended their lives by consuming
pesticides two days ago.
The farming community in the
district has been facing acute crisis since 2000 and over 260
farmers, mainly groundnut farmers, had committed suicides so far.
Gouvajupalle Nagesh, a groundnut farmer of Rodda village had ended
his life as he was unable to pay the power bill arrears. The area
under groundnut cultivation has now come down to 7.5 lakh acres
from 18 lakh acres.
Most of the suicides were in Penugonda,
Nallamada, Kuderu, Garladinne, Tanakallu, Talupual, Agali, Rolla,
Beluguppa, Kalyanadurg, Kadiri, Nallacheruvu, Roddam, Rayadurgam
and Vidapanakallu mandals of the district. The crop loss during
the last rabi season was put at Rs 1,600 crores.
Despite
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s directive not to forcibly
collect bank loan installments and power bills, the officials are
forcing the crisis-ridden farmers to pay the installments. The
State Government had announced a special package of Rs 386 to
provide succour to the farmers, but there are allegations of
large-scale fund misuse.
District Congress Committee
president Ananta Venkatrami Reddy said that the announcement of
special package was a mere eyewash and alleged that at least Rs
177 crore were misappropriated in the name of the Food-for-Work
scheme.
He demanded that the government complete the
pending irrigation projects to help the Anantapur
farmers.
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