Sunday 30 March 2008

Why is the 60,000 Waiver Misleading

What should Bend say? Reiterating my thoughts which I spoke earlier and my comments to Etla's article- in most of the newses I read lately that in spite of the Rs. 60,000 Crore waiver announcement, suicides aren’t stopping. 75 more casualties in Vidarbha (Raja Saheb’s work area) last month.

Bend fails to understand why everyone is linking the spate of suicides to the government’s much publicised recent loan waiver? It is still quite a hefty amount to be spent on each farmer even if 60,000 choose to die in coming years. The whole thing is not only immoral (quoted by Gurcharan Das) but also misleading.

Now, if this loan waiver does not totally relate to suicides, then it must be for some other reason. Will Mr. Chidambaram or someone enlightened care to explain?

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