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The Hindu : Columns / Sainath : In 16 years, farm suicides cross a quarter million

12.10.12

The Hindu : Columns / Sainath : In 16 years, farm suicides cross a quarter million: It's official. The country has seen over a quarter of a million farmers’ suicides between 1995 and 2010. The National Crime Records Bureau’s latest report on ‘Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India’ places the number for 2010 at 15,964. That brings the cumulative 16-year total from 1995 — when the NCRB started recording farm suicide data — to 2,56,913, the worst-ever recorded wave of suicides of this kind in human history.


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