Bundelkhand: As India faces partial drought, CNN-IBN visits Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh where over 90 per cent of the farmers are now debt ridden and at the mercy of moneylenders after banks fail them yet again.
There is no glimmer of hope to the starving family of Kamta, the future looks bleak and the present is tragic. The farmer from Bundelkhand took a loan of Rs 1 lakh from two banks, the rains deceived him and he failed to pay back the loan. The spectre of a legal battle was too much for him to handle. Kamta committed suicide by consuming pesticide.
No Rain and all pain is the story that is told all across the Bundelkhand parched land where 80 per cent are farmers. Over 90 per cent of the farmers are debt ridden.
Sonali's father Devi Lal was one of them, he too committed suicide. Little Sonali doesn't know why her father died, but knows what she'll do when she grows up; save lives....
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06:27 AM, Aug 04, 2012
Bundelkhand: With the alarming drought-like situation across the country, farmer suicide cases in Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand continue to mount. Union Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has sounded the warning and asked states to take effective measures to tackle the crisis. Kamta, a farmer from Bundelkhand took a loan of Rs one lakh from two banks. Rains deceived him and he failed to pay back the loan. The specter of a legal...
09:18 AM, Jul 30, 2012
Jhansi/Mahoba: Two farmers, who according to their families were in huge debt, committed suicide in Jhansi and Mahoba areas of Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh. In the first case, farmer Rajkumar owed the bank Rs 80000. It was a loan that his father had taken. The worries of Rajkumar increased when his crops were destroyed due to a bad monsoon. In the second case, the victim, Khemchand, had to pay of...
10:00 AM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: The UP government on Monday informed the State Lokayukta that it was not possible to take action against senior Cabinet minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui in the disproportionate assests case, choosing to refrain from giving any reason for the same. The State Lokayukta had recommended a probe by the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) into the alleged disproportionate assets accumulated by Siddiqui, a key aide of Chief Minister Mayawati. So...
06:20 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Mahoba (UP): Continuing her tirade against Rahul Gandhi, BJP leader Uma Bharti on Wednesday accused him of making mockery of the poor in Bundelkhand region and reminded him that she had defeated his "guru" Digvijay Singh in Madhya Pradesh. "Rahul Gandhi should now stop making mockery of poverty, starvation and poor state of affairs of Bundelkhand region," said Bharti, who was visiting Bundelkhand for the first time after her candidature...
11:47 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will campaign in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, including in Charkari from where his once bete noire Uma Bharti is contesting. "Uma ji is definitely a big national leader and I also spoke to her. She asked me to campaign in Uttar Pradesh as well as in Charkari," Chouhan told mediapersons. "I will be going for campaigning in the first week of February...
01:00 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Lalitpur (Jhansi): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is on a rallying spree across Uttar Pradesh, the state where he has much at stake in the forthcoming elections. However, on the first day of his five-day tour of the Bundelkhand region, the Congress leader was in for a disappointment because of the dismal turn-out at his rally at Lalitpur. Empty chairs greeted the few who had braved the cold to listen...
02:39 PM, Jan 18, 2012
Lucknow: The Bundelkhand Congress will contest 41 seats in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly election and will field candidates in consultations with the Team Anna. "The Bundelkhand Congress will contest 41 seats in the state. Consultations for finalising the candidates have been held with Team Anna members Arvind Kejriwal and Kumar Vishwas. The list will be made public on January seven," Bundelkhand Congress president Raja Bundela said. The party, which...
12:11 AM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, whose interventions have brought the backward Bundelkhand region into national focus on Thursday listened to the complaints of residents of the region straddling both Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh and assured them of all possible help. "The Bundelkhand package money belongs to you. You must use it well and whatever issues you have, we shall try to address as best as we can,"...
03:47 AM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi on Thursday blamed Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh governments for lack of development in Bundelkhand and accused them of improper channelisation of funds meant for centrally-sponsored welfare schemes. "Today poor people are aware. They know what is good or bad for them. The real problem or lacunae is that the government is not reaching you. Especially governments in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have such deficiency,"...
08:41 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Lucknow: Mayawati's move to get the resolution to divide the state into four parts passed by a voice vote in the state Assembly and then get the House adjourned indefinitely has stumped the Opposition in the state, which was planning to put the Bhaujan Samaj Party (BSP) on the mat by bring in a no-confidence motion. Even as the Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were planning to...
01:16 PM, Nov 21, 2011
Lucknow: Mayawati's move to get the resolution to divide the state into four parts passed by a voice vote in the state Assembly and then get the House adjourned indefinitely has stumped the Opposition in the state, which was planning to put the Bhaujan Samaj Party (BSP) on the mat by bring in a no-confidence motion. Even as the Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were planning to...
01:16 PM, Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: The debate on splitting larger states has once again come to the forefront with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister announcing plans for carving out four new states: Purvanchal, Bundelkhand, Awadh and Paschim Pradesh/Harit Pradesh. There have been long standing demands across India for the formation of new states and the list includes:1. Ladakh (Jammu & Kashmir)2. Maru Pradesh (Rajasthan)3. Harit Pradesh/Paschim Pradesh (Uttar Pradesh)4. Awadh (Uttar Pradesh)5. Purvanchal/Bhojpur (Uttar...
09:28 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday lent support to his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Mayawati's stand to carve out four new states out of Uttar Pradesh. "We are in principle in favour of formation of smaller states... We have been votary of smaller states for fostering a new era of development... However, it is a matter between Uttar Pradesh government and the Centre," he told reporters in Patna before...
02:59 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Bundelkhand: More than 500 debt ridden farmers have committed suicide in the last 5 months Bundelkhand despite a Rs 7000 crore special package from the Centre. The story has now become a part of Bundelkhand's folklore with eight years of drought, starvation and debt, due to which there have been 2945 farmer suicides in the last 10 years and 519 farmer suicides in the last five months alone. Veerpal Rajput,...
08:40 AM, Jul 15, 2011
CM asks Centre to split state, form Bundelkhand and Harit Pradesh. ...
11:16 PM, Dec 11, 2009
Maya has opposed an authority for development of Bundelkhand. ...
03:12 PM, Aug 01, 2009
CM opposes proposal to have development body for Bundelkhand. ...
09:45 PM, Jul 30, 2009
Footage shows criminals being chased by police, firing that followed. ...
12:53 PM, Jun 17, 2009
