Click to play videoBundelkhand: Though Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav says, “Farmers in UP have never been happier,” a family in the Bundelkhand region of the state is struggling to survive.
Burdened by debts, Amrita's father, the family's sole breadwinner, passed away recently.
With the droughts denying them a good harvest, the family has barely enough to eat.
“We cannot farm. There is nothing to eat and we have no support,” says Amrita.
She says her father had taken a loan to marry off her eldest sister but died of a heart attack before paying off the debt.
With his death, the family has fallen on hard times and her mother is worried that she would not be able to marry off her other two daughters.
“My daughters have grown up but there is no way we can get them married,” says Amrita’s mother.
This is the story of many farming families in the Bundelkhand region.
Many have been driven to suicide by the abject poverty that has set in and those who survive are praying for an end to their misery.
(With inputs from Arunoday Mukherjee)
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