Martyrs’ Memorial Research Institute (MMRI) is organizing a one day ‘Interaction with poor and Deprived of North Telangana’ on September 16 at Padmanayak Kalyanamantapam, Karimnagar at 9.30 am
In a press release, MMRI chairman Prof D. Manohar Rao stated that Bharatiya Janata Party National President Nitin Gadkari will be the chief guest. Eminent thinker and columnist S. Gurumurthy, Khadi Board of Jharkhand Chairman Jainandu, MP from Gulbarga of Karnakata Basvraj Patil and BMS leader Subba Rao will be the guests of honor.
BJP National secretary P. Muralidhar Rao will release ‘Charter of the Deprived’ on the occasion.
No parameter is as revealing as suicide to measure the depths of rural poverty. About 2000 farmers are committing suicides in Andhra Pradesh annually in recent years, half of them from the six districts of North Telangana. Agriculture is in utter shambles. North Telangana is famous for crops as cotton, turmeric, sugarcane, chillies and ginger, besides rice. None of these crops are remunerative to the farmer. This was so despite vast tracts are supported by irrigation systems, Manohar Rao said.
Weaving community is another one where suicides are a daily occurrence. The figures are mind boggling. A weaver’s family on an average gets a meagre Rs 1000-2000 per month. Weavers are migrating to towns in large numbers. The number of looms has come down to a third. (NSS)