<div><font color="Navy">In Punjab, three farmers kill selves every two days
Kanchan Vasdev
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 26
Forced by financial crunch, an estimated 5,000 farmers and farm labourers committed suicide in the agrarian state of Punjab, popularly known as grain bowl of India, in the last decade - 2000 to 2010. This works out to 500 suicides a year or three suicides every two days.
Of these 5,000, about 3,000 have committed suicide in just two districts - Bathinda and Sangrur.
About 38 per cent of these persons were in the prime of their life (20 to 30 years old) while 60 per cent had unpaid debts. In all, about 47 per cent of the 3,000 persons who committed suicide were illiterate.
These are the startling findings of a state government commissioned survey conducted by three universities of the state - Punjabi University, Patiala; Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana; and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
In addition to reaffirming that the
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Kanchan Vasdev
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 26
Forced by financial crunch, an estimated 5,000 farmers and farm labourers committed suicide in the agrarian state of Punjab, popularly known as grain bowl of India, in the last decade - 2000 to 2010. This works out to 500 suicides a year or three suicides every two days.
Of these 5,000, about 3,000 have committed suicide in just two districts - Bathinda and Sangrur.
About 38 per cent of these persons were in the prime of their life (20 to 30 years old) while 60 per cent had unpaid debts. In all, about 47 per cent of the 3,000 persons who committed suicide were illiterate.
These are the startling findings of a state government commissioned survey conducted by three universities of the state - Punjabi University, Patiala; Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana; and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
In addition to reaffirming that the
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