On 23rd July 2015, Grand Maratha Foundation has donated a Computer to Yeor Municipal School, to enable Computer education and e-learning through Internet. On behalf of Grand Maratha Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Shelatkar donated one set of Computer with UPS to school officials. (more…)
Grand Maratha foundation arranged the distribution of Seed of Pluses and Cotton to 110 Vidarbha Farm Widows of Pandharkodha Village in Yavatmal on 20th June, 2015. (more…)
While politicians discuss ways to tackle the agrarian crisis in the Maharashtra legislature, farmer suicides continue unabated in Vidarbha. Six more suicides have been reported in just the past 24 hours. With these, the toll in Vidarbha has risen to 38 this month and 826 since the start of the...
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra government to file an affidavit on its non-implementation of the National Food Security Act, 2013, following a starvation death in Tiroda, Gondiya, district. A division bench comprising Justice Bhushan Gavai and Justice Indu Jain asked the principal...
Today another debt trapped farmer of village Bhadumari in Yavatmal district named Dadarao Agrakar of age 35 killed himself. Thousnds of farmers joined to protest in his village where his two small sons have sent a request letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a message 'Give us our father...
Debt-ridden farmers in suicide-prone Vidarbha, Maharashtra, are peeved at the Maharashtra government’s plan to start counselling programmes, beginning with the ten worst-hit districts. A farmers’ watchdog, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) has rebuked the state’s public health minister, Deepak Sawant, as being insensitive to the farmer’s suffering and said the...
A record 1,306 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra during the one-year period of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in office - between May 20, 2014, to May 25, 2015, a farmers' watchdog body said here on Monday. This figure is around 40 percent higher than the same period between May 2013-May...
महाराष्ट्र एकीकडे महाराष्ट्र विधीमंडळाच्या दोन्ही सभागृहात सरकार तणावग्रस्त व दुष्काळग्रस्त शेतकऱ्यांना सालाबादप्रमाणे घोषणाचे गाजर दाखवीत होते मात्र त्याच पाच दिवसात विदर्भातले मदतीपासून वंचित असलेले व अतितणाव सहन न झाल्यामुळे आणखी १२ शेतकऱ्यांनी आत्महत्या करून या संसाराला व सरकारच्या जाचाला रामराम ठोकला आहे यामध्ये ज्या यवतमाळ जिल्यात मुख्यमंत्री देवेंद्र फडणवीस यांनी...
Apathy of NDA Govt towards Maharashtra agrarian Crisis continue as State wants Rs 4,500 crore, gets Rs 500 crore- After Supreme court Now NHRC ask Govt. on Farmers suicide. After Indian supreme court has shown serious concern over ongoing farmers suicides last week now taking suo motu cognizance of the...
The Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti today demanded that the Maharashtra government should waive off crop loans, provide health care and also food security to farmers. In a release issued here, the farmers' body demanded that Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungattiwar who is all set to present the first budget of...
