Banda Varanasi - Frontline Story by Annie Zaidi

UP Weavers - Frontline Story by Annie Zaidi Varanasi
Deprivation - Hunger and Deaths in Uttar Pradesh - The Living dead - story by Annie Zaidi, Frontline, Hindu :
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Yet the State of Uttar Pradesh does not seem to have quite understood the connection between hunger and death. The crisis brewing in its belly, which the State has not acknowledged publicly so far, has claimed hundreds of lives already.

One of them, nine-month-old Seema, died in July 2006 at Belwa village in Varanasi district. Her grandmother Manni Musahar said they had nothing to eat and no money. Seema's mother Lakshmina tried to barter her wedding sari for grain. But before that her baby died. The sari had to be pawned anyway, for Rs.100. ...

http://www.flonnet.com/fl2406/stories/20070406002911100.htm

05/04/2007

Western Vidarbha :

1. SURYABHAN CHAVAN, YAWALI, YAVATMAL
2. DEVIDAS WADE, KHURHA, AMARAVATI
3. YOGESH PARIKHE, KISANAPUR, AMARAVATI
4. GAJANAN POHANE, KAWTHAL, WASHIM

THE RECENT REPORTS OF BANK RECOVERIES UP TO 31ST MARCH, SHOWS THAT COTTON FARMERS ARE IN DEEP ECONOMICAL CRISIS BECAUSE COTTON CROP FAILURE AND POOR MARKET RATE FOR COTTON. THIS SITUATION TOO CRITICAL TO EXPLAIN AS ACCORDING TO MAHARASHTRA GOVT. OFFICIAL REPORT THE AGRARIAN CRISIS IN THE WEST VIDARBHA IS VERY CRITICAL AND 1. 2 MILLION FARMERS OUT OF 1.7 MILLION FARMER IN THE REGION ARE UNDER DISTRESS AND MORE THAN 4,35000 ARE SUICIDE PRONE AND UNDER MAXIMUM DISTRESS, NEEDS FOOD SECURITY, HEALTH SECURITY AND COMPLETE SOCIAL PROTECTION BUT THESE BASIC ISSUES ARE NOT ADDRESSED IN THESE ANNOUNCEMENT