Monday, March 2, 2009

The modified truth : India's dead peasants- Danish daily Kristeligt Dagblad reports



The modified truth : India's dead peasants

(This is translated from Kristeligt Dagblad.)

http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/312150:3--verden--Den-modificerede-sandhed

Since the early 1990s, 200,000 Indian farmers committed suicide. The vast majority of the pesticides that should get the crops in their fields to grow. Kristeligt Dagblad train in November 2008 to the Vidarbha region near Mumbai to find out why. Article Series in four parts was through interviews with those involved in order to reconstruct and restore events. This is the third article of the series.



Bomuldshøsten er en hård og til tider langstrakt affære.




















Cotton harvest is a hard and sometimes tedious affair. De hvide totter modnes ikke på samme tid, og i Indien betyder det, at bønderne sælger årets høst af flere omgange. The white totter not ripen at the same time and in India it means that the farmers sell the year's harvest of several laps. Her ses to af områdets bønder, mens de læsser dagens høst af. Here are two of the area's farmers, while they read today's harvest. – Anna Klitgaard. - Anna Klitgaard.

Anne-Sofie Storm Wesche og Anna Klitgaard skriver fra Indien Anne-Sofie Storm Wesche and Anna Klitgaard writes from India

activist Kishore Tiwari look at the picture of an Indian peasant. The farmer has a red rope on the neck, he is dead. The photograph is just one of many on the wall. They are there to remind him what he is fighting for

Bollywood-stjerner danser hen over fjernsynsskærmen. Bollywood stars dancing across the television screen. I farvestrålende dragter smiler de og vrikker med hovedet. In colorful costumes and smiles they waggle their heads. Parret bevæger sig gennem en bomuldsmark fuld af svulmende, hvide totter. The couple moves through a cotton field full of bulging white totter. Hver gren tynges til jorden af de vatlignende knopper, og så langt øjet rækker, er billedet det samme. Each branch weighed to the ground by the vatlignende buds, and as far the eye can see, the picture is the same. Midt i alt det hvide stopper stjernerne – de rækker hver deres hånd frem og viser stolt en forgyldt pakke bomuldsfrø. Midst of all the white stop the stars - they go each their hand up and proudly displays a gold package cottonseed. Mærket er Bollgard, patentindehaveren på produktet er bioteknologifirmaet Monsanto. The label is Bollgard, patent holder on the product is the biotechnology company Monsanto.

De sukkersøde smil fra de to stjerner overbeviser ikke aktivisten Kishore Tiwari. The sugar sweet smile from the two stars is not convincing activist Kishore Tiwari. Det gør heller ikke de mange knopper på bomuldsplanterne. It does not many buds on cotton plants. I Vidarbha dyrker stort set alle bønder genmodificeret bomuld, og ikke mange steder i Indien er der fattigdom og ulykke som her. In Vidarbha grows virtually all peasants GM cotton, and not many places in India, there is poverty and unhappiness here. Tidligere var området kendt som Indiens bomuldsbælte, men i takt med at op mod 35.000 landmænd de senere år har taget deres eget liv, har det i dag skiftet navn til Selvmordsbæltet. Previously, the area known as India's cotton belt, but as that up to 35,000 farmers in recent years have taken their own lives, it has now changed its name to the suicide belt. De døde her er kun en lille del af de 200.000 bønder i Indien, der i de seneste 10 år har taget deres eget liv på grund af fattigdom og gæld. The dead here are only a small proportion of the 200,000 farmers in India in the last 10 years have taken their own lives because of poverty and debt. Men med en befolkning på bare 3,2 millioner har de gjort Vidarbha til epicenter for den selvmordsepidemi, der i disse år hærger blandt Indiens bønder. But with a population of just 3.2 million, they have done to Vidarbha epicenter for the suicide epidemic in these years rife among Indian peasants.

Selvom frøene i jorden her er de samme som i reklamen, så svulmer bomuldsplanterne ikke af knopper. Although the seeds in the soil here is the same as in the advertisement, then expand the cotton plants are not the buds. Bønderne valgte ellers den genmodificerede bomuld eller Bt-bomuld, som den også kaldes på grund af det lovede store afkast. The farmers chose otherwise the GM cotton and Bt cotton, as it is called because of the promised large returns. Alligevel har det ikke fået deres bomuldsplanter til at bøje sig mod jorden under vægten af svulmende knopper, som grenene gør i reklamen fra Monsanto. Yet it has not got their cotton plants to bend towards the earth under the weight of bulging buds, as the branches are in the advertisement from Monsanto.

Den dårlige høst bliver Kishore mindet om selv inde på kontoret i Pandharkawada. The poor harvest is Kishore Tiwari reminded himself inside the office on Pandharkawada. På den brunlige betonvæg til venstre for ham hænger en stor planche fra 2006. On the brown wall of concrete to the left of him hangs a large plate from 2006. Vidarbhas seks distrikter er afbildet på den, og ud for hver af dem står et tal. Vidarbhas six districts are depicted on it, and for each of them stands a figure. For Yavatmal-distriktet, hvor Pandharkawada ligger, er tallet højt. In Yavatmal district, which lies Pandharkawada, the figure is high. 248. 248. Under det viser et billede en mand med lukkede øjne og et rødt reb om halsen. During the show a picture a man with closed eyes and a red rope around your neck. Han er død og er medvirkende til, at Kishore og hans forening, Jan Andolan Samiti, har travlt. He is dead and has contributed to Kishore Tiwari and his association Jan Andolan Samiti, are busy. Flere gange om ugen modtager de opkald fra efterladte, der lige har mistet et familiemedlem. Several times a week they receive calls from survivors who have lost a family member. Og hver dag besøger enten Kishore eller en af foreningens tre frivillige familier i oplandet for at hjælpe dem. And every day, visit either Kishore Tiwari or one of its three volunteer families in the hinterland to help them. De rådgiver de efterladte om kompensationsmuligheder og fortæller om alternativer til dyrkningen af, hvad Kishore ser som hele grunden til selvmordene: Bt-bomulden. They advise the survivors on compensation options and talk about alternatives to the cultivation of what Kishore sees as the whole reason for suicide: Bt cotton.

For 10 år siden var det dog ikke de små, genmodificerede frø, der drev den nu 50-årige Kishore væk fra en lukrativ stilling som marketingchef. For 10 years ago it was not the small, genetically modified seeds, which drives the now 50-year-old Kishore Tiwari away from a lucrative position as Marketing Manager. I stedet var det et ønske om at gøre en forskel og bedre vilkårene for Yavatmals fattige bønder. Instead, it was a desire to make a difference and improve conditions for poor farmers Yavatmals. Ønsket var både religiøst og idealistisk funderet. The desire was both idealistic and religious-based. For i hinduismen er det godt at gøre noget for andre, og politisk ser aktivisten det som nødvendigt at tilsidesætte egne behov for at hjælpe andre. In Hinduism it is good to do something for others, and political activist sees it as necessary to override their own needs to help others.

Som Kishore sidder i chefstolen på kontoret, ses det tydeligt, at han kan lide at være midtpunkt. As Kishore Tiwari Chief Justice sitting in the office, be it clear that he likes to be center. Både for pressen og lokalbefolkningen. Both the press and the local population. Lige nu har otte mænd mast sig ind på det lille kontor uden vinduer. Right now, the eight men crushed into the little office with no windows. Han underholder dem alle med historier fra marken og med sine egne fortræffeligheder. He entertains them with stories from the field and with its excellent entirety. Lige indtil telefonen ringer, og en kvindestemme fortæller om endnu et selvmord. Right until the phone rings and a female tells of yet another suicide. Så bliver han alvorlig. Then he becomes serious.

Da han efter et stykke tid lægger mobilen fra sig, ser han op på planchen med billederne af de døde bønder og nærmest råber: ”Ban it. When he after a while, the mobile phone away, he looks up the installment plan with the pictures of the dead peasants and almost shouts: "Ban it. They should just ban it!” – Forbyd det. They should just ban it! "- Prohibit it. De burde bare forbyde det. They should just ban it.

Fokus for Kishores vrede er de genmodificerede bomuldsfrø, der gemmer sig i Monsanto-reklamens forgyldte kasse. The focus of anger is Kishore Tiwari GM cotton seed, hiding in Monsanto advertising gilded box. Monsanto er et multinationalt bioteknologisk selskab, der specialiserer sig i landbrugsprodukter – blandt andet ukrudtsmidlet Roundup. Monsanto is a multinational biotechnology company specializing in agricultural products - including herbicide Roundup. Firmaet har været til stede i Indien, siden det i 1998 fusionerede med Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company Ltd. The company has been present in India since 1998 merged with Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company Ltd.. (Mahyco). (Mahyco).

Sammenlægningen gav Monsanto-Mahyco fodfæste på det enorme indiske landbrugsmarked med 575 millioner potentielle kunder og åbnede hurtigt for testforsøg med det genmanipulerede Bt-frø. The combination gave Monsanto-Mahyco foothold in the huge Indian market with agricultural 575 million potential customers and opened quickly testforsøg with genetically engineered Bt seed. I 2002 blev Bt-bomuld som den første genmodificerede afgrøde godkendt til kommercielt brug i Indien, og lige siden er det gået stærkt. In 2002, Bt cotton as the first GM crop approved for commercial use in India and since then has been strong. I dag er 6,3 millioner hektar ud af 9 millioner under Bt-opdyrkning, hvilket er en stigning fra 0,3 procent i 2003 til 70 procent i dag. Today, 6.3 million hectares out of 9 million under Bt cultivation, which is an increase from 0.3 percent in 2003 to 70 percent today. I Vidarbha begyndte bønderne for alvor at bruge frøene i 2003-2004, og i de første høstår var jordens afkast højt. In Vidarbha farmers began in earnest to use the seed in 2003-2004 and in the first year was the earth returns high. Men så begyndte det at gå galt. But then it began to go wrong.

Det lave udbytte ses ikke mindst på de syv bomuldsmarkeder, der ligger som perler på en snor langs vejen mellem landsbyen Baggi og Pandharkawada. The low yield is seen not least in the seven cotton markets which are as beads on a string along the road between the village of Baggi and Pandharkawada. De første fem er lukket, og det sjette har kun modtaget sojabønner. The first five are closed and the sixth has only received soybeans. Først på det sidste ligger et lille bjerg af bomuld. Only the last is a small mountain of cotton. Mens bønderne skubber bomulden ud af sækkene på vognen, æder okserne løs af de hvide totter. While pushing farmers out of cotton bags in the wagon, eating okserne bulk of the white totter. Hvidt skum står ud af deres munde, mens de gumler. White foam is out of their mouths while they munch.

Kishore står på pladsen foran den hvide høj af bomuld. Kishore Tiwari is on the square in front of the white high cotton. Alt dette er Bt. All this is Bt. Han samler en håndfuld op, nulrer den. He gathers a handful up nulrer it. Der er ikke nogen forskel at se. There is no difference to see. Bomulden ligner den slags, der blev dyrket før i tiden. Resembles the kind of cotton that was grown in the past. Alligevel er der forskel, for tidligere var landmændene også fattige, men de begik ikke selvmord. Yet there are differences in the past farmers were too poor, but they did not suicide.

Det begyndte de først for alvor på, da de multinationale selskaber kom til Indien i slutningen af 1990’erne. It started the first truly on when the multinationals came to India in the late 1990s. De gik aggressivt til værks for at få markedsandele. They went to work aggressively to gain market share. Kishore har set plakater i landsbyerne og hørt sælgere forklædt som bønder fortælle om frø med fantastiske evner. Kishore Tiwari 've seen posters in the villages and heard salesmen disguised as peasants tell of seeds with amazing abilities. De har lovet de måbende landmænd, at deres udbytte fra markerne ville mangedobles, og at de ville blive rige på kort tid. They have promised they agape farmers that their proceeds from the fields would multiply, and that they would be rich in a short time. De har også fortalt, hvor fantastisk Bt er, fordi den ikke kræver insektgift. They have also told how wonderful Bt is because it does not require insecticide. Og hvis bønderne stadig tvivlede, husker Kishore, at firmaerne arrangerede ture til testmarker, hvor de ved selvsyn kunne se Bt-bomuldens fortræffeligheder. And if farmers ever doubted, Kishore Tiwari remember that companies arranged tours to the test fields where they could see for myself Bt cotton super entirety.

Kishore har set det hele før. Kishore Tiwari 've seen it all before. De seneste tre-fire år har høsten været den samme – katastrofal. The last three-four years the harvest has been the same - devastating. Derfor er det også med bekymring, at han går de kommende måneder i møde. It is therefore with concern that he is in the months to come. Planchen på hans kontor minder ham nemlig om, at langt de fleste selvmord sker i månederne under og efter høsten, fordi landmændenes håb om en mirakelhøst ikke bliver indfriet. Plan Chen in his office reminds him that that the vast majority of suicides happen in the months during and after harvest because farmers hope for a miracle harvest will not be honored. Dermed står de med en gæld fra de tidligere år samt udsigten til at optage et nyt lån til næste års såsæd. Thus they are with a debt from previous years and the prospect of recording a new loan for next year's seeds.

Kishore har set forandringen komme snigende i landsbyerne, hvor selv helt fattige bønder nu ligesom resten af Indien drømmer om motorcykler og mobiltelefoner. Kishore Tiwari 've seen change come creeping in the villages, where even quite poor farmers are now like the rest of India dream of motorbikes and mobile phones. De vil være med i den fremgang, som resten af landet oplever i disse år, og føle sig som Bollywood-stjernerne i de strålende reklamer. They will be in the prosperity that the rest of the country is experiencing in these years and feel like Bollywood-stars in the brilliant advertising.

Der er dog langt fra filmstudierne til virkeligheden i Vidarbha. There is, however, far from film studios to the realities of Vidarbha. Ikke bare markedet viser dette, men også markerne. Not just seen this, but also the fields. Kishore standser bilen ved en, hopper over den udtørrede grøft og ned på jordens sprukne overflade. Kishore Tiwari stop by a car, jump over the dry ditch and down to earth sprukne surface. Inde blandt de røde blade står bomuldsbonden Sama-dhan Raud blandt udtørrede knopper. Inside, among the red leaves are cotton peasant Sama-dhan Raud among dried buds. Egentlig troede han, at Bt-bomuld med Bollgard ville beskytte bomuldsknopperne. Actually he thought that the Bt-cotton with Bollgard would protect cotton buds. Det fortalte sælgeren ham, og det antyder navnet. The seller told him, and it suggests the name. Men Bollgard beskytter kun knopperne mod larveangreb og ikke mod svamp, og derfor har han været nødt til at indkøbe dyr gift for at redde høsten. But Bollgard protects only buds against larval attack and not against the sponge, so he has been forced to buy expensive gift to save the harvest. Også selvom brugen af Bt netop skulle betyde, at bønder som Samadhan sparede penge på plante- og insektgifte. Even though the use of Bt would just mean that the peasants who Samadhan saving money on plant and insect poisons.

Monsanto udviklede op gennem 1980’erne Bt-frøene. Monsanto developed through the 1980s Bt seed. De er kodet med et giftstof, Bacillus thuringiensis, som de mest skadelige bomuldslarver ikke kan lide. They are encoded with a poison, Bacillus thuringiensis, as the most damaging cotton larvae do not like. Denne egenskab kan spare bonden for både udgifter og sprøjtning med gift, og det kunne flere indiske frøfirmaer se fidusen i. De købte teknologien af Monsanto, som dog stadig ejer patentet og anser alle Bt-frø for firmaets ejendom. This feature can save the farmer for both costs and the spraying of poisons and could see several Indian seed establishment scams in. They bought the technology of Monsanto, which still owns the patent and believes all Bt seeds of the company's property. Det betyder, at de ikke tillader bønder i hverken Indien eller resten af verden at gemme, videresælge eller bruge frø fra Bt-planter, hvorfor alle Bt-bønder skal investere i nye frø hvert år. This means that they do not allow peasants in either India or the rest of the world to save, sell or use the seeds from Bt plants, why all Bt farmers to invest in new seeds every year.

Hvis bønderne forsøger at omgå Monsantos forbud ved at gemme eller genbruge såsæd, så har det i flere tilfælde vist sig, at de genmodificerede frø fra firmaet ikke kan reproducere sig selv. If farmers are trying to circumvent the ban Monsanto, save or reuse seed, it has in several cases demonstrated that the genetically modified seeds from the company can not reproduce itself. Bønder og interesseorganisationer påstår, at det skyldes terminator-teknologi, der gør frøene sterile, men Monsanto lover på deres hjemmeside, at de ikke vil bruge teknologien – i fødevarer. Farmers and interest groups claiming that it caused terminator technology that makes seeds sterile, but Monsanto promises on their website that they will not use the technology - in food.

Når bønderne alligevel investerer i den dyre såsæd, er det, fordi de er fanget af reklamernes løfter. When peasants still invest in the expensive seeds, it is because they are caught by the advertising promises. De drømmer om et bedre liv, og Monsanto og underleverandørerne udnytter dette ved at lokke bønderne med store afkast og tilbud om penge. The dream of a better life, and Monsanto and subcontractors exploit this by enticing farmers with high yields and offering money. Frøfirmaerne sælger nemlig ikke kun frø, de finansierer også indkøbene, hvis bonden ikke har rede kontanter. Seed establishment sells not just seeds, they also finances the purchases if the farmer does not have ready cash. Denne fremgangsmåde er blevet kritiseret fra flere sider, men indtil videre stiger andelen af lån optaget hos såsædssælgere bare. This approach has been criticized from several sides, but so far increases the proportion of loans from seed sellers only.

Det samme gør antallet af selvmord i området på trods af økonomiske hjælpepakker fra staten og delstaten. The same number of suicides in the region in spite of economic aid packages from the State and the Land. I Vi-darbha begår tre til fire bønder selvmord hver dag, og det holder Kishore beskæftiget. In We-darbha committing three or four peasants suicide each day, and it keeps Kishore Tiwari employed. Konstant er der mennesker på hans kontor, og i dag er ingen undtagelse. Constantly there are people in his office, and today is no exception.

På en af de sorte plastik-stole inde på det lille kontor sidder en høj, stor mand. At one of the black plastic chairs inside the little office sits a large, strong man. Hans navn er også Kishore, og han er bror til Ashok Deshettiwar, der begik selvmord for blot en uge side. His name is Kishore Deshettiwar, and he is brother of Ashok Deshettiwar who committed suicide just a week side. Han er kommet for at søge hjælp, for Ashoks gæld skal betales tilbage. He is here to seek help for Ashok debts must be repaid.

Kishore Tiwari lover at hjælpe familien med kompensationsansøgningerne. Kishore Tiwari promise to help the family with compensation applications. Men han spørger også, om de har overvejet at dyrke andre afgrøder end Bt-bomuld. But he also asks whether they have considered other crops than Bt cotton. Han ved godt, at kun meget få selvmordsramte familie formår at skifte til nye afgrøder for ikke at tale om dyrkningsmetoder. He knows well that very few suicide-hit families manage to switch to new crops, not to mention cultural practices. De har ikke ressourcerne til det, heller ikke selvom økologisk bomuldsdyrkning med tiden kan gøre en forskel. They do not have the resources for it, even though organic cotton cultivation over time can make a difference.

udland@kristeligt-dagblad.dk udland@kristeligt-dagblad.dk

Monsanto er blevet bedt om at medvirke i artiklen, men har pr. Monsanto has been asked to help in the article, but each. mail blot henvist til firmaets hjemmeside www.monsanto.com mail simply referred to the company's website www.monsanto.com



Wednesday, February 25, 2009

विदर्भात आठ शेतकऱ्यांच्या आत्महत्या-म. टा. वृत्तसेवा

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विदर्भात मोठ्या प्रमाणावर दुष्काळ पडला असून खेड्यांमध्ये पिण्याचे पाणी, जनावरांसाठी चाऱ्याची टंचाई निर्माण झाली आहे. यामुळे गांजलेल्या शेतकऱ्यांचा बजेटकडूनही अपेक्षाभंग झाल्यानंतर गेल्या तीन दिवसांत आठ शेतकऱ्यांनी आत्महत्या केल्या. राज्य मानवाधिकार आयोगाने शेतकऱ्यांच्या आत्महत्यांची गंभीर दखल घेतली आहे.

विदर्भातील दुष्काळामुळे ग्रामीण भागात रोजगारीचे संकट उभे राहिले आहे. केंद सरकारकडून बजेटमध्ये निराशाच पदरी पडल्यानंतर कृष्णा साठे (नांदोरा, वर्धा), गजानन वावगे(दहिगाव, बुलढाणा), हरिश्चंद बुरांडे(विरली, भंडारा), आनंद ठाकरे (कासार, यवतमाळ), बबन डोंगरे (कुऱ्हाड, यवतमाळ), गुलाब वाघमारे (कळंब, यवतमाळ), ज्ञानराव तायडे (चमक, अमरावती) आणि वासुदेव गोमासे (आकोली, वर्धा) या आठ शेतकऱ्यांनी गेल्या तीन दिवसांत आत्महत्या केल्याच्या घटना घडल्या आहेत.

या आत्महत्यांची गंभीर दखल घेत राज्य मानवाधिकार आयोगाने या प्रकरणाची सुनावणी येत्या २५ फेब्रुवारी रोजी ठेवली आहे.



या बातमीवर तुमचं मत मांडण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Eight more farm suicides in vidarbha-Central relief Failed to stop farmers suicide-VJAS

Eight more farm suicides in vidarbha-Central relief Failed to stop farmers suicide-VJAS

Nagpur-dated 19th feb.,2009

only after 72 hours of interim budget claiming to give much more needed fund for tackling the agrarian crisis ,has shown it’s effect as in vidarbha which is epicenter of farmer suicide in India eight more farm suicide have been reported in last three days ,reminding administration the farmers in vidarbha who are severely drought hit needs potable water, fodder ,food and work under NAREGA ,Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) demanded today.

Eight recent farm victims of on going agrarian crisis since june 2005 which has claimed more than 5000 farm suicides even after prime minister relief package are

1.ANANDA THAKARE IN YAVATMAL

2.BABAN DONGARE IN YAVATMAL

3.JANRAO TAYADE IN AMARAVATI

4.VASUDEO GOMARE IN WARDHA

5.GULAB WAGHMARE IN YAVATMAL

6.HARISHCHANDRA BURANDE IN BHANDARA

7.GAJANAN WAVGE IN BULDHANA

8.KRISHANNA SATHE IN WARDHA

Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) informed today.

As per official figure there is no significant reduction in farm suicides in last three years


And here is chart of farm suicides in west vidarbha that gives official data that in year 2006 ,2007 and 2008 has reported 1448,1246 and 1267 cotton farmers suicides even after Rs.3750 crore PM package and Rs.71,000 crore loan waiver .in the year 2009 more than 100 farm suicides have already reported showing severity of on going agrarian crisis due to wrong approach of administration to address agrarian crisis has resulted in more farm suicides even after the relief packages are in operation, Kishore Tiwari added.

All toll claims of agriculture growth ,credit and economic reforms in rural sector are only on paper ,interim budget presented by UPA Govt. has shown rosy picture of rural India where as farmers are in agrarian crisis. ‘it is unfortunate that state failed to give fresh farm credit even after the loan waiver and debt trapped farmers in distressed area were forced to take huge crop loan from private money lenders that resulted in more farm suicides after loan waiver due to crop failure this year. this year too draught has been reported in central and south India but interim budget has not provided any fund for tackling agrarian and rural problems in that area ’ tiwari added.

There is nothing for vidarbha cotton and soya growers as they were expecting special incentive for export and increase in import duty tariff to avoid further recession in cotton and soybean . even central Govt .has extended prime minister relief package for 31 suicide prone district but there is no fund allocation for the same ‘is it single that Govt. is winding up the package’ tiwari urged.
The complete failure of NREGA and NRHM in distress area has not even discussed in interim budget more over there are toll claims of it’s success .one hand Govt. has talked about food security but they have failed to give any scheme for food crop promotion. Interim budget failed to increase the quantity for BPL families to be covered in anttodaya scheme which was promised earlier .
farmers and poor both have been ignored in the interim budget giving the hint that they are likely to be ignored in future too., tiwari said.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

कापुस खरेदीतील प्रचंड भ्रष्ट्राचाराची सी.बी.आय. मार्फत चौकशी करा - किशोर तिवारी

कापुस खरेदीतील प्रचंड भ्रष्ट्राचाराची सी.बी.आय. मार्फत चौकशी करा - किशोर तिवारी
पणन महासंघाच्या कापसाच्या आगीची डाँ. एन पी हिराणी यांनी नैतीक जबाबदारी घ्यावी
आता पांढरकवडा येथील कापसाला आगीपासुन वाचविण्याचे मुख्यमंत्र्यांना आव्हान

दि.१७ (आशिष बडवे)
यवतमाळ - पांढरकवडा येथील कापुस बाजारात प्रचंड गैरव्यवहार झाला असुन पुसद प्रमाणेच पांढरकवडा येथील कापुस जिनींगलाही आग लागण्याची तिव्र शक्यता निर्माण झाली आहे. कापुस बाजारातील गैरव्यवहार लपविण्यासाठी कापसाच्या गंजी पेटविण्याचा डाव खेळण्याची तयारी यात गुंतलेल्यांनी केली आहे. त्यामुळे पांढरकवडा येथील कापसाला आगीपासुन वाचविण्याचे कडवे आव्हान आता मुख्यमंत्र्यांसमोर उभे ठाकले आहे. दरम्यान विदर्भ जनआंदोलन समितीचे अध्यक्ष किशोर तिवारी यांनी कापुस खरेदीतील प्रचंड भ्रष्टाचाराची सी. बी. आय. मार्फत चौकशी करण्याची महत्वपुर्ण मागणी आज केली असुन पणन महासंघाच्या कापसाच्या आगीची डाँ. एन पी. हिराणी यांनी नैतीक जबाबदारी स्विकारून राजिनामा द्यावा असे किशोर तिवारी यांनी म्हटले आहे.
विदर्भात जेव्हा जेव्हा पणन महासंघाने बाजार भावापेक्षा जास्त भावाने कापुस खरेदी केला तेव्हा तेव्हा प्रचंड प्रमाणात आगी लागल्या व ज्या संकलन केंद्रावर जास्त भ्रष्टाचार झाला त्या संकलन केंद्रावर जास्त मोठी आग लागत असल्याचे चित्र पुसदच्या घटनेने पुन्हा एकदा सिध्द केले आहे. मागील आठवड्यात पणन महासंघाचे अध्यक्ष डाँ. एन. पी. हिराणी यांच्या मुळ गावी व पालक मंत्री मनोहरराव नाईक यांच्या पुसद येथे पणन महासंघाच्या कापसाला प्रचंड आग लागली व १० कोटीचा कापुस जळुन खाक झाला असे प्रसारीत करण्यात आले यापुर्वी झरी व वणी येथे आगी लागल्या असुन प्रत्येक आगीच्या पुर्वी या संकलन केंद्रावर प्रचंड प्रमाणात कापुस खरेदी मध्ये पणन महासंघाचे अधिकारी व जिनींग वाल्यांनी हजारो क्विंटलच्या कापसाची बोगस खरेदी करून केंद्र सरकारच्या नाफेडला चुना लावल्याची चर्चा रंगत आहे. प्रत्यक्षात कापुस व सरकी याची तुट लक्षात येण्यापुर्वीच सुनियोजीतपणे साका कापुसच जाळुन टाकण्याचा गोरखधंदा पणन महासंघाचे पदाधिकारी व अधिकारी करत असतांना सरकार व पोलीस सुध्दा यांना संरक्षण देत आहे. पुसद ज्या ठिकाणी पणन महासंघाचे अध्यक्ष एन पी हिराणी व पालकमंत्री मनोहरराव नाईक हे राहतात त्या ठिकाणी पणन महासंघाच्या कापसाला अभुतपुर्व आग लागते व दहा कोटी रूपयाचा कापुस भस्मसात होतो ही सर्व बाब आश्चर्याची असुन यावर सरकारने सी. बी.आई. मार्फत चौकशी करणे काळाची गरज आहे असे किशोर तिवारी यांनी म्हटले आहे. पणन महासंघाच्या भोंगळ कारभाराची व राजरोसपणे सुरू असलेल्या सुंधोगसुंधीची नैतीक जबाबदारी घेउन डाँ. एन पी हिराणी यांनी आपल्या पदाचा राजिनामा द्यावा अशी मागणी किशोर तिवारी यांनी आज केली. ते राजिनामा देत नसतील तर त्यांची पदावरून हकालपट्टी करणे गरजेचे असल्याचेही किशोर तिवारी यांनी म्हटले आहे. पांढरकवडा सह ४० संकलन केंद्रावर अंदाजे ३० टक्के कापसाची बोगस खरेदी करण्यात आली असुन ही तुट लपविण्यासाठी येत्या मार्च, एप्रील पर्यंत बहुतेक सर्व ठिकाणी कापसाच्या गंजींना व गाठींना न सरकीच्या गोदामांना आगी लागण्याची भिती किशोर तिवारी यांनी व्यक्त केली आहे
पांढरकवडा कापुस संकलन केंद्रावर १ लाख क्विंटल कापसाची बोगस खरेदी
पांढरकवडा - पांढरकवडा येथील संकलन केंद्रावर यावर्षी पणन महासंघाच्या अधिकाय्रांनी अभुतपुर्व भ्रष्टाचार केला असुन जिनींग मालकाच्या व काँटन माफीयाच्या सहाय्याने एकदा विकत घेतलेला कापुस पुन्हा पुन्हा विकत दाखवुन अंदाजे १ लाख क्विंटल कापुस कागदोपत्री खरेदी केला आहे व यामुळे सरकारला ३० कोटी रूपयाचा चुना लागत आहे हा सगळा प्रकार अभुतपुर्व असुन याचे पुरावे प्रत्यक्षात आज उपलब्ध आहे मात्र भविष्यात कापसाला किंवा गाठीला आगी लागण्याची भिती असुन सरकारी योजनेचे धिंडवडे अधिकारी व राजकीय नेते कशा प्रकारे करतात हे पणन महासंघाच्या कापुस खरेदीने जगासमोर येत आहे. कोणत्याही सामान्य माणसाला समजेल असा राजरोसपणे भ्रष्टाचार होत असतांना पणन महासंघाचे अधिकारी व प्रशासन डोळ्याला पट्टी बांधुन पाहत आहे ही दुर्भाग्याची गोष्ट आहे. पांढरकवडा संकलन केंद्रासह ज्या संकलन केंद्रावर ३ लाख क्विंटलपेक्षा जास्त कापुस खरेदी झाली त्या सर्व ठिकाणचा कापुस पोलीसांनी पंचनामा करून आपल्या ताब्यात घ्यावा व भविष्यात आगी रोखाव्या असे आवाहन सुध्दा किशोर तिवारी यांनी केले आहे.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

February 12, 2009 Neo-Liberal Terrorism in India: The Largest Wave of Suicides in History -By P. SAINATH



February 12, 2009

Neo-Liberal Terrorism in India:

The Largest Wave of Suicides in History

By P. SAINATH

The number of farmers who have committed suicide in India between 1997 and 2007 now stands at a staggering 182,936. Close to two-thirds of these suicides have occurred in five states (India has 28 states and seven union territories). The Big 5 – Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh– account for just about a third of the country’s population but two-thirds of farmers’ suicides. The rate at which farmers are killing themselves in these states is far higher than suicide rates among non-farmers. Farm suicides have also been rising in some other states of the country.

It is significant that the count of farmers taking their lives is rising even as the numbers of farmers diminishes, that is, on a shrinking farmer base. As many as 8 million people quit farming between the two censuses of 1991 and 2001. The rate of people leaving farming has only risen since then, but we’ll only have the updated figure of farmers in the census of 2011.

These suicide data are official and tend to be huge underestimates, but they’re bad enough. Suicide data in India are collated by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a wing of the Ministry of Home Affairs, government of India. The NCRB itself seems to do little harm to the data. But the states where these are gathered leave out thousands from the definition of “farmer” and, thus, massage the numbers downward. For instance, women farmers are not normally accepted as farmers (by custom, land is almost never in their names). They do the bulk of work in agriculture – but are just “farmers’ wives.” This classification enables governments to exclude countless women farmer suicides. They will be recorded as suicide deaths – but not as “farmers’ suicides.” Likewise, many other groups, too, have been excluded from that list.

The spate of farm suicides – the largest sustained wave of such deaths recorded in history – accompanies India’s embrace of the brave new world of neoliberalism. Many reports on that process and how it has affected agriculture have been featured right here, on the Counterpunch site. The rate of farmers’ suicides has worsened particularly after 2001, by which time India was well down the WTO garden path in agriculture. The number of farmers’ suicides in the five years – 1997-2001 – was 78,737 (or 15,747 a year on average). The same figure for the five years 2002-06 was 87,567 (or 17,513 a year on average). That is, in the next five years after 2001, one farmer took his or her life every 30 minutes on average. The 2007 figures (detailed below) place that year, too, in the higher trend.

What do the farm suicides have in common? Those who have taken their lives were deep in debt – peasant households in debt doubled in the first decade of the neoliberal “economic reforms,” from 26 per cent of farm households to 48.6 per cent. We know that from National Sample Survey data. But in the worst states, the percentage of such households is far higher. For instance, 82 per cent of all farm households in Andhra Pradesh were in debt by 2001-02. Those who killed themselves were overwhelmingly cash crop farmers – growers of cotton, coffee, sugarcane, groundnut, pepper, vanilla. (Suicides are fewer among food crop farmers – that is, growers of rice, wheat, maize, pulses.) The brave new world philosophy mandated countless millions of Third World farmers forced to move from food crop cultivation to cash crop (the mantra of “export-led growth”). For millions of subsistence farmers in India, this meant much higher cultivation costs, far greater loans, much higher debt, and being locked into the volatility of global commodity prices. That’s a sector dominated by a handful of multinational corporations. The extent to which the switch to cash crops impacts on the farmer can be seen in this: it used to cost Rs.8,000 ?($165 today) roughly to grow an acre of paddy in Kerala. When many switched to vanilla, the cost per acre was (in 2003-04) almost Rs.150,000 ($3,000) an acre. (The dollar equals about 50 rupees.)

With giant seed companies displacing cheap hybrids and far cheaper and hardier traditional varieties with their own products, a cotton farmer in Monsanto’s net would be paying far more for seed than he or she ever dreamed they would. Local varieties and hybrids were squeezed out with enthusiastic state support. In 1991, you could buy a kilogram of local seed for as little as Rs.7 or Rs.9 in today’s worst affected region of Vidarbha. By 2003, you would pay Rs.350 -- ($7) -- for a bag with 450 grams of hybrid seed. By 2004, Monsanto’s partners in India were marketing a bag of 450 grams of Bt cotton seed for between Rs.1,650 and Rs.1,800 ($33 to $36). This price was brought down dramatically overnight due to strong governmental intervention in Andhra Pradesh, where the government changed after the 2004 elections. The price fell to around Rs.900 ($18) – still many times higher than 1991 or even 2003.

Meanwhile, inequality was the great man-eater among?the “Emerging Tiger” nations of the developing world. The predatory commercialization of the countryside devastated all other aspects of life for peasant farmer and landless workers. Health costs, for instance, skyrocketed. Many thousands of youngsters dropped out of both school and college to work on their parents’ farms (including many on scholarships). The average monthly per capita expenditure of the Indian farm household was just Rs.503 (ten dollars) by early this decade. Of that, 60 per cent roughly was spent on food and another 18 per cent on fuel, clothing and footwear.

Farmers, spending so much on food? To begin with, millions of small and marginal Indian farmers are net purchasers of food grain. They cannot produce enough to feed their families and have to work on the fields of others and elsewhere to meet the gap. Having to buy some of the grain they need on the market, they are profoundly affected by hikes in food prices, as has happened since 1991, and particularly sharply earlier this year. Hunger among those who produce food is a very real thing. Add to this the fact that the “per capita net availability” of food grain has fallen dramatically among Indians since the “reforms” began: from 510 grams per Indian in 1991, to 422 grams by 2005. (That’s not a drop of 88 grams. It’s a fall of 88 multiplied by 365 and then by one million Indians.) As prof. Utsa Patnaik, India’s top economist on agriculture, has been constantly pointing out, the average poor family has about 100 kg less today than it did just ten years ago – while the elite eat like it’s going out of style. For many, the shift from food crop to cash crop makes it worse. At the end of the day, you can still eat your paddy. It’s tough, digesting cotton. Meanwhile, even the food crop sector is coming steadily under corporate price-rigging control. Speculation in the futures markets pushed up grain prices across the globe earlier this year.

Meanwhile, the neoliberal model that pushed growth through one kind of consumption also meant re-directing huge amounts of money away from rural credit to fuel the lifestyles of the aspiring elites of the cities (and countryside, too). Thousands of rural bank branches shut down during the 15 years from 1993-2007.

Even as incomes of the farmers crashed, so did the price they got for their cash crops, thanks to obscene subsidies to corporate and rich farmers in the West, from the U.S. and EU. Their battle over cotton subsidies alone (worth billions of dollars) destroyed cotton farmers not merely in India but in African nations such as Burkina Faso, Benin, Mali, and Chad. Meanwhile, all along, India kept reducing investment in agriculture (standard neoliberal procedure). Life was being made more and more impossible for small farmers.

As costs rose, credit dried up. Debt went out of control. Subsidies destroyed their prices. Starving agriculture of investment (worth billions of dollars each year) smashed the countryside. India even cut most of the few, pathetic life supports she had for her farmers. The mess was complete. From the late-’90s, the suicides began to occur at what then seemed a brisk rate.

In fact, India’s agrarian crisis can be summed up in five words (call it Ag Crisis 101): the drive toward corporate farming. The route (in five words): predatory commercialization of the countryside. The result: The biggest displacement in our history.

Corporations do not as yet have direct control of Indian farming land and do not carry out day-to-day operations directly. But they have sewn up every other sector, inputs, outlets, marketing, prices, and are heading for control of water as well (which states in India are busy privatizing in one guise or another).

The largest number of farm suicides is in the state of Maharashtra, home to the Mumbai Stock Exchange and with its capital Mumbai being home to 21 of India’s 51 dollar billionaires and over a fourth of the country’s 100,000 dollar millionaires. Mumbai shot to global attention when terrorists massacred 180 people in the city in a grisly strike in November. In the state of which Mumbai is capital, there have been 40,666 farmers’ suicides since 1995, with very little media attention.

Farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra crossed the 4,000-mark again in 2007, for the third time in four years, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. As many as 4,238 farmers took their lives in the state that year, the latest for which data are available,?accounting?for a fourth of all the 16,632 farmers’ suicides in the country. That national total represents a slight fall from the 17,060 farm suicides of 2006. But the broad trends of the past decade seem unshaken. Farm suicides in the country since 1997 now total 182,936.

To repeat, the five worst affected states?– Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh?– account for two-thirds of all farmers’ suicides in India. Together, they saw 11,026 in 2007. Of these, Maharashtra alone accounted for?over 38 per cent. Of the Big 5, Andhra Pradesh saw a decline of 810 suicides against its 2006 total. Karnataka saw a rise of 415 over the same period. Madhya Pradesh (1,375) posted a decline of 112. But Chattisgarh’s 1,593 farm suicides mean an increase of 110 over 2006. Specific factors in these states nourish the problem. These are zones of highly diversified, commercialized agriculture where cash crops dominate. Water stress has been a common feature, and gets worse with the use of technologies such as Bt seed that demand huge amounts of water. High external inputs and input costs are also common, as also the use of chemicals and pesticides. Mindless deregulation dug a lot of graves, lit a lot of pyres.

Maharashtra registered a fall of 215 farm suicides in 2007. However, no other state even touches the 3,000 mark. And AP (with 1,797) and Karnataka (2,135) – the next two worst hit states – together do not cross Maharashtra’s 4,000-plus mark. A one-year dip of 221 occurred in 2005 too, in Maharashtra, only to be followed by an all-time high of 4,453 suicides in 2006. The state’s trend shows no turnaround and remains dismal.

Maharashtra’s 2007 figure of 4,238 follows one and a half years of farm “relief packages” worth around Rs.5,000 crore ($1 billion) and a prime ministerial visit in mid-2006 to the distressed Vidharbha region. The state has also seen a plethora of official reports, studies and commissions of inquiry over 2005-07, aimed at tackling the problem. However, the 12,617 farm suicides in the same years is its worst ever total for any three-year period since the state began recording such data in 1995. Indeed, farm suicides in Maharashtra since that year have crossed the 40,000 mark. The structural causes of that crisis seem untouched.

Nationally, farmers’ suicides between 2002-07 were worse than for the years 1997-2001. NCRB data for the whole country now exists from 1997-2007. In the five years till 2001, there were 15,747 farmers’ suicides a year on average. For the six years from 2002, that average is 17,366 farmers’ suicides each year. The increase is distressingly higher in the main crisis states.

P. Sainath is the rural affairs editor of The Hindu and is the author of Everybody Loves a Good Drought. A regular contributor to CounterPunch, he can be reached at psainath@vsnl.com.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Two faces of BJP : Narendra Modi’s strong globalization stands makes BJP Resolution on Agriculture meaningless.

Two faces of BJP : Narendra Modi’s strong globalization stands makes BJP Resolution on Agriculture meaningless.

NAGPUR -8th feb.2009

Gujarat chief minister and prime minister of NDA in waiting(that’s also hidden list) Narendra Modi has come out with second face of up coming BJP only after 12 hours of passing the one of socialist and in line Gandhian philosophy of rural India resolution on Agriculture by national executive Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP) today in Nagpur meet as he has advocated very strongly free trade and globalization which has resulted mass genocide of cotton farmers ,country has not forgotten the past when NDA has lifted quantitative restriction of import in 2004 when BJP president rajnath singh was agriculture minister ,much which before the WTO asked and huge import cotton bells from America on very cheaper rate due to heavy US subsidies to cotton farmers has completely collapsed cotton economy of vidarbha that’s has brought this agrarian crisis. If this is true face of BJP then what about it’s resolution which have been enlisted as farmers rights which are contradictory to the basic conditions WTO and free trade .BJP has assured that NDA will give

1. Minimum Support Price to be fixed after adding 50 per cent over production cost.

2. Minimum Support Price for all crops.

3. Provision of subsidy directly to farmers. Agricultural loans to be provided at the rate of four per cent Interest.

4. Farm income guarantee insurance scheme for small farmers.

5. Adequate power supply for agriculture.

6. Water for every field and work for every hand.

7. Pension for old age farmers.

8. Loans of all farmers to be waived off under the principle of equality

9. Implementation of the recommendations of the Agricultural Commission.

The resolution of agriculture was really good opening to change the image of BJP is as right wing hindu fundamentalist party to party which believes in social equality and justice but Narendra Modi speech has given very wrong single as promoting globalisation and free trade will further aggravate agrarian crisis will invite more farmers to kill themselves ,hence BJP should come out with official stand over the issue, ,Kishore tiwari of Vidarbha jan andolan samiti (VJAS) urged in press note today.

VJAS president kishor tiwari has requested all political parties to protect Indian farming community from free trade and menace of MNC,s which are mainly responsible for 1,82,000 farmers suicides since 1998 in India.“we have to stop this on going farm suicides ,we hope that all parties will take same stand on agriculture so that we can forget the very sad era of this farmers suicides which has witnessed more than 1,82,000 farm victims due wrong policies of state ” tiwari added.

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Please arrange to publish this press note

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

For VIDARBHA JANANDOLAN SAMITI

KISHORE TIWARI

PRESIDENT.

kishortiwari@gmail.com

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Two faces of BJP : Narendra Modi’s strong globalization stands makes BJP Resolution on Agriculture meaningless.

Two faces of BJP : Narendra Modi’s strong globalization stands makes BJP Resolution on Agriculture meaningless.

NAGPUR -8th feb.2009

Gujarat chief minister and prime minister of NDA in waiting(that’s also hidden list) Narendra Modi has come out with second face of up coming BJP only after 12 hours of passing the one of socialist and in line Gandhian philosophy of rural India resolution on Agriculture by national executive Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP) today in Nagpur meet as he has advocated very strongly free trade and globalization which has resulted mass genocide of cotton farmers ,country has not forgotten the past when NDA has lifted quantitative restriction of import in 2004 when BJP president rajnath singh was agriculture minister ,much which before the WTO asked and huge import cotton bells from America on very cheaper rate due to heavy US subsidies to cotton farmers has completely collapsed cotton economy of vidarbha that’s has brought this agrarian crisis. If this is true face of BJP then what about it’s resolution which have been enlisted as farmers rights which are contradictory to the basic conditions WTO and free trade .BJP has assured that NDA will give

1. Minimum Support Price to be fixed after adding 50 per cent over production cost.

2. Minimum Support Price for all crops.

3. Provision of subsidy directly to farmers. Agricultural loans to be provided at the rate of four per cent Interest.

4. Farm income guarantee insurance scheme for small farmers.

5. Adequate power supply for agriculture.

6. Water for every field and work for every hand.

7. Pension for old age farmers.

8. Loans of all farmers to be waived off under the principle of equality

9. Implementation of the recommendations of the Agricultural Commission.

The resolution of agriculture was really good opening to change the image of BJP is as right wing hindu fundamentalist party to party which believes in social equality and justice but Narendra Modi speech has given very wrong single as promoting globalisation and free trade will further aggravate agrarian crisis will invite more farmers to kill themselves ,hence BJP should come out with official stand over the issue, ,Kishore tiwari of Vidarbha jan andolan samiti (VJAS) urged in press note today.

VJAS president kishor tiwari has requested all political parties to protect Indian farming community from free trade and menace of MNC,s which are mainly responsible for 1,82,000 farmers suicides since 1998 in India.“we have to stop this on going farm suicides ,we hope that all parties will take same stand on agriculture so that we can forget the very sad era of this farmers suicides which has witnessed more than 1,82,000 farm victims due wrong policies of state ” tiwari added.

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For VIDARBHA JANANDOLAN SAMITI

KISHORE TIWARI

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NAGPUR -8th feb.2009

Gujarat chief minister and prime minister of NDA in waiting(that’s also hidden list) Narendra Modi has come out with second face of up coming BJP only after 12 hours of passing the one of socialist and in line Gandhian philosophy of rural India resolution on Agriculture by national executive Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP) today in Nagpur meet as he has advocated very strongly free trade and globalization which has resulted mass genocide of cotton farmers ,country has not forgotten the past when NDA has lifted quantitative restriction of import in 2004 when BJP president rajnath singh was agriculture minister ,much which before the WTO asked and huge import cotton bells from America on very cheaper rate due to heavy US subsidies to cotton farmers has completely collapsed cotton economy of vidarbha that’s has brought this agrarian crisis. If this is true face of BJP then what about it’s resolution which have been enlisted as farmers rights which are contradictory to the basic conditions WTO and free trade .BJP has assured that NDA will give

1. Minimum Support Price to be fixed after adding 50 per cent over production cost.

2. Minimum Support Price for all crops.

3. Provision of subsidy directly to farmers. Agricultural loans to be provided at the rate of four per cent Interest.

4. Farm income guarantee insurance scheme for small farmers.

5. Adequate power supply for agriculture.

6. Water for every field and work for every hand.

7. Pension for old age farmers.

8. Loans of all farmers to be waived off under the principle of equality

9. Implementation of the recommendations of the Agricultural Commission.

The resolution of agriculture was really good opening to change the image of BJP is as right wing hindu fundamentalist party to party which believes in social equality and justice but Narendra Modi speech has given very wrong single as promoting globalisation and free trade will further aggravate agrarian crisis will invite more farmers to kill themselves ,hence BJP should come out with official stand over the issue, ,Kishore tiwari of Vidarbha jan andolan samiti (VJAS) urged in press note today.

VJAS president kishor tiwari has requested all political parties to protect Indian farming community from free trade and menace of MNC,s which are mainly responsible for 1,82,000 farmers suicides since 1998 in India.“we have to stop this on going farm suicides ,we hope that all parties will take same stand on agriculture so that we can forget the very sad era of this farmers suicides which has witnessed more than 1,82,000 farm victims due wrong policies of state ” tiwari added.

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Please arrange to publish this press note

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

For VIDARBHA JANANDOLAN SAMITI

KISHORE TIWARI

PRESIDENT.

kishortiwari@gmail.com

contact-09422108846