Seems India, specifically the state of Maharashtra, has dunderheads for the governing class.
How else can one have an explanation for crores of rupees being spent on this project and that while 12,000 poor and hardworking farmers, the salt of the earth, would be desperate enough to sniff pesticides in order to end their lives. This is not a sudden occurrence. It started as a trickle, no one in a position to help them - not the politicians, not the bureaucrats, not any level of government would prevent it from turning into a flood of thousands. Is life in India that cheap where the people who provide food for the population are left to die a miserable death? Over 12,000 farmers tried to kill selves in 2 years, says SIT - http://toi.in/5Z2YIb/a20fi Roland Francis Toronto.
