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Hit By Indebtedness and Suicides, Punjab Farmers Worry New Laws Will Make Things Worse

https://thewire.in/agriculture/punjab-farmers-suicides-debt

"Jaijee and his organisation have documented at least 100 debt-related suicides this year in the Lehra and Andana blocks combined. Jaijee has worked in this field for over three decades. According to his calculations and extrapolation of data from these two blocks, the total number of debt-related suicides in Punjab this year could be hovering around 8,800. He compares this with the wretched villain of 2020 – the coronavirus – and finds that rural suicides (~8,800) are double the COVID-19 deaths recorded in Punjab as of December 2020 (~4,900).

In this context of pervasive debt in Punjab, and suicides related to debt, both professor Anupama and Inderjit Jaijee believe that the new contentious farm laws, which have led to massive protests by farmers and agricultural labourers countrywide, will be further detrimental."

https://thewire.in/agriculture/punjab-farmers-suicides-debt