Result of our door to door visit to suicide victims was compiled as a report submitted to district collector of Washim, Maharashtra.
This report was compiled by volunteers of Save Indian Farmers by visiting 20+ families from 7 different Talukas of Washim district, where a farmer committed suicide in August/September 2015. The list of families was provided by Mr. Kishor Tiwari, Maharashtra’s state minister who is heading Vasantrao Naik independence mission for farmers. We are submitting this report to Mr. Tiwari, the current district collector Mr. Rahul Dvivedi and also making it public for people to read. This report is NOT exhaustive and does NOT address systemic issues in large population. Those studies are already available. The objective is to understand on the ground situation case by case basis. These 20 families may not be representative of all the problems farmers are facing but they certainly are microcosm of the ground reality. We hope this provides framework for further discussion on how NGOs and local government officials can collaborate to address some of the issues mentioned in the report.
Please view the full report here
SIF-Washim Farmers Suicide Report.docx
