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Farmers urged not to take extreme steps
The District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Secretary, G Neelima, has called upon the farming community to desist from the practice of committing suicides owing to loss of crops and debts burden.
Hanamkonda: The District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Secretary, G Neelima, has called upon the farming community to desist from the practice of committing suicides owing to loss of crops and debts burden.
She said industrialists and traders would never end their lives even though they have huge debts. But the farmers were resorting to suicides fearing to bear even small amounts of debts, she lamented and asked the farmers to overcome their financial crisis by proper planning.
At a programme organised in Hanamkonda on Monday under the aegis of the city-based social service agency, Sarvodaya Youth Organisation (SYO) Neelima has distributed interest-free loans to widows of farmers, who committed suicide. Lauding the gesture of the SYO, she asked the women, who received the loans, to make proper use of the loans by taking up profitable livelihood activities.
The SYO Secretary, Pallepadu Damodar, informed that loans were being distributed with the generous financial assistance extended by Australian Telangana State Association (ATSA) to help the bereaved families of the farmers.
The ATSA has donated an amount of Rs 5,78,598 to the SYO, during his visit to Australia in 2016 and explained Telangana community in Sydney about the poor conditions of farmers in the State. ATSA organised a programme ‘Saya’ and raised funds.
The ATSA president Kadire Jayapal Reddy during visit to Hyderabad in this January handed over the cash cheque to Damodar. The SYO has selected a group of women to distribute the loans worth a total of Rs 6 lakhs.
Nine women were given Rs 50,000 each, while five women were given Rs 30,000 each. The women were asked to take up cattle rearing, run kirana shops and other small traders to make money, Damodar explained. ‘There were incidents of the widows of farmers attempting suicides or becoming labourers owing to financial crisis.
We want to prevent such incidents by encouraging the affected women to sustain their lives by engaging in livelihood activities,’ he added. DRDA official M Sathish, MEPMA official Rajitha Rani, a retired Law College Principal Padma, White Ribbon Forum member M Sadalaxmi, Social Action Committee members Janaki Devi, Tirumala, Roja Rani, SYO executive committee members Vishwanatha Raju and M Manohar Rao were present.
