NAGPUR: Reports collated by farm activist Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti claimed that four more farmers had committed suicide in last two days in the region. While there was no independent official conformation of these case, Tiwari said that there was a jump in agrarian distress as relief...
Families of nearly half of the farmers in Maharashtra who have committed suicide over the last four years are not eligible to get even the paltry Rs 1 lakh compensation thanks to government rules. Maharashtra, along with Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, AP, Chhattisgarh and MP, registers a high number of...
On 31st January 2015 Grand Maratha Foundation has provided relief aid to agrarian crisis hit family of cotton farmer Vijay Mahadure (Age 35). On behalf of Grand Maratha Foundation Mr. Kishor Tiwari distributed the relief aid.
Grand Maratha Foundation distributed to Vidarbha farm widows on new year day 1st Jan 2015. Ashbai Lakde, a Farm Widow to whom Grand Maratha Foundation has donated a picco-fall machine, now she has been empowered to earn at least Rs. 500 per day. Aruna Kapse and her three daughters of...
